First Stop Of The Day,

the Kodak shop on Pattaya Tai,

 as many know we are coming up to the time we have to renew our yearly visas,

 and we needed some passport sized photographs, the shop is almost opposite Friendship, 

 and has a very nice marine aquarium inside the shop,

 the Regal tang, (Paracanthurus hepatus) looking as splendid as ever,

  next for us breakfast, we decided to go to Dongtan Beach, and on the way after parking our motorcycle spotted this beauty,

 a Triumph Rocket Three, with it's 2,294 cc engine pumping out 148 BHP, that is just 2 BHP less than my 3,000 cc turbo charged truck, this motorcycle is no slouch, in case you are wondering it does a standing start to 60 MPH in just 3.3 seconds! although it is a full second slower to 60 MPH than the 2006 Suzuki GSX-R1000, it is still blisteringly fast,

 we made our way to the beach,

 during the day this part of Beach Road is closed to traffic,

 we had the road to ourselves,

 on the recommendation of Alex we called in here, the Sandbar,

 a coke for Diana and a ice coffee for myself,

 we sat under the umbrellas, but we were plagued by small flies that have a nasty habit of flying very close to your eyes, 

 which was easily solved by moving to a table with a fan above it,

 prawn fried rice with egg for Diana,

 prawn bisque soup for myself,

  also at this time of the year the motorcycles need to be taken in for their yearly inspection, road tax and government insurance certificates, first the Honda, 

 we use the facility just before the Bangkok Pattaya hospital on the way out of Pattaya heading towards Bangkok, I will pick up the paperwork in the next few days and also have the Kawasaki tested,

 later in the afternoon,

 off to the local market,

 Diana popped in for some fish,

so I just sat on the motorcycle taking a few pictures, then home for our evening meal,

after our meal we watched a few quiz shows, also Barry called round for a wine and chat, after saying our farewells it was feet up for Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows, which we both enjoyed, and both agreed that a third in the series is long overdue, and with that we were off to bed.