It Was Time To Go To The Bank Again,

we had also decided on a different venue for our breakfast,

 normally we would go to the Pattaya Beer Garden opposite,

 it is at Beach Road where the traffic after 7.00 in the evening has to turn left,

 so for our new venue we travelled along Walking Street,

 under the Samsung television,

 into Walking Street,

 I had given Diana the camera,

 so she was shooting over my shoulder as we made our way along the street,

 I have to say I had not heard of the Lighthouse go-go before, but then new go-gos must be opening up all of the time,

 but I had been to Alcatraz before,

 the street looks so different in daylight, we are just coming to the T junction of Soi Diamond and the street,

  past Sweethearts and along to Teazers,

 nearly at Champions,

 and there it is on the left,

 coming up to the big tree shrine,

 and the Simon Beer Bar complex,

 one of Diana's favourite restaurants,

 McDonald's, not the smallest McDonald's around but surprisingly close,

 we are coming up to the end of the street, a beach front restaurant on the right,

 with a hotel on the left, the street at the end in the distance here gets quite narrow,

 then opens up into the square opposite the Bali Hai pier buildings, I am not sure what this new building on what was open space will be,

this is the place for fresh seafood, just opposite the new building

 lots of shrimps, crabs and shellfish for sale here every day,

 straight across at the cross road,

 and past the boat park on the right,

 it seemed surprisingly empty,

 normally it is packed with boats at this time of the year,

 it must be a busier quiet season than I thought,

 we made our way along the road that goes past the boat park, lined with the new dolphin lampposts,

 I had almost convinced myself that the absence of boats was because they were in for repair/maintenance, but here were all of their trailers, so they must be out at sea,

 we had now driven to where the builders were working on the new jetty,

 lots of pilings in the sea,

 there was a non-stop fleet of concrete mixing lorries coming and going,

 the liquid mix being moved by crane,

 we then came to the lighthouse where the road turns sharply to the left and goes uphill,

 the restaurant we had chosen was the one next to the lighthouse,

 this is it, nicely shaded by tress, unfortunately I did not know its name, but it is easy to find,

it has a car park to the left of it,
 

looking back towards Pattaya,

there is seating area on the beach,

as well as by the restaurant,

we chose the beach tables, which meant crossing the wall to the beach

our table by the wall,

nicely in the shade,

the view looking out to sea,

an ice coffee to start,

then our food arrived,

and there was lots of it,

we had ordered the medium sized prawn fried rice which was 150 baht, thinking it would be small we also ordered some deep fried prawns at 200 baht, but really the prawns in rice would have been enough, there were so many of them, best of all they were delicious, another nice thing about eating here apart from the view is that there is a continual breeze to keep you cool,

 

then back to Pattaya past the never ending concrete mixers,
 

all along the road past the boat park and the now famous dolphin lights,
 

we went over the flyover on the way back, past the go-kart track,

Diana took a few more pictures on the way from the flyover,

the road below looking almost deserted,

then as we went down the flyover I noticed something on the right I had not seen before,
 

a new shop hiring out three wheelers,

all of the outfits were brand new, they all had red plates,

and very nice they looked too,

the shop called the Happy Three Wheeler is on the left hand side if you are travelling along Third Road on your way to Bali Hai pier just after the flyover starts,

here is their map of how to find them,

and price list, what a great way to get around town for three people or for two to get your shopping and bung it all in the sidecar,

 

when we arrived home we watched some television but for our film we watched Knowing, a time capsule buried for 50 years is dug up, it contains predictions of events that occur, worryingly the last one predicts the end of the world, all predicted so far have happened,

the last was The Hound of the Baskervilles, although most like Jeremy Brett playing Holmes, I have to say I almost prefer Matt Frewer, he may be more well known as Max Headroom, a great performance, then for us we were off to bed.