We Had A Cunning Plan,

after a quiet day indoors,

 we would visit the Pattaya Seafood Festival on Beach Road, which is on this week only Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 6.00 in the evening till late,

 so glad rags on and we were of,

 we made our way to Soi Diamond,

 and down to Walking Street,

 and took in the sights,

 lots of slippers,

 and few customers,

'always have a plan B Dave', as Phonce said to Dave in Rare Birds, a great and hugely watchable film by the way, well this was our plan B, if we did not eat at the seafood festival we would walk back and eat at the Lobster Pot,

 so on we went past the Turkish ice cream seller,

 towards the end of Walking Street,

 making our way past the water treatment plant, 

 we looked back to the Pattaya Beer Garden where we had eaten many times,

 a quick pose on the boardwalk,

 we had walked for a short while, but I was expecting to have found the festival by now,

 but there was no sign of it as we made our way past one of the new markets that had opened up facing the sea, 

 we pasted one of Diana's favourite restaurants, 

 McDonald's, I had to drag her past it,

 then three at once, Burger King, the Pizza Company and Swensens,

 followed by Pizza Hut, when would the torture end?

 there was still no sign of the festival as we passed TQ1,

 the sign that has been seen by so many as it is the longest running bar in Pattaya, founded in 1978,

we continued past The Wave, a 21-room luxury Art Deco boutique hotel right on the beach,

 then music, or I should say a beat filled the air,

 as this monster truck and sound system made it's way along Beach Road,

 we were nearly half way along Beach Road as we were coming up to the Hilton hotel,

 one of the many entrances on Beach Road leading to a shopping mall,

 with massive LED signs advertising what is inside,

 the walk along the promenade was quite nice, in most places it was more than wide enough to make easy progress,

 as we were getting closer to Pattaya Central, plan C was taking shape,

 forget the seafood, as we still had not found the festival,

 and lets have an Indian at Ali Babas,

 inside it was nearly empty as it was still quiet early,

 and we were hungry, so straight away a few poppadoms,

 'Cheers!',

 our next course,

 a prawn puri each,

 with a shared chicken chat,

 after a break our main course,

chicken tikka masala, chicken korma, aloo gobi and peas pulau rice, we were full to bursting! the meal came to just over 2,500 baht, including more than a few glasses of wine, 

I have now found out why we did not see the seafood festival, the stalls on Beach Road start at the Dolphin roundabout and go along the sea front until Soi 4, we had started walking at the wrong end of Beach Road, D'Oh! but in any event it was still a lovely evening, we made our way home in one of the blue and yellow taxis that seem to be becoming more common in Pattaya, next feet up, a glass of wine, we then watched a couple of Murdoch Mysteries that were being shown on TMN, after those as it was late we were off to bed.