Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The Secret to a Successful Beach Vacation

Two words: food poisoning. 

Michael went a little hard on the green curry at the end of our first day in Railay so we were obliged to take it way easy the rest of the trip. 

And guess what? It was incredible.


Once he got through the GI complications (shout out to our super nice bathroom at Railay Great View), it was a deliciously relaxing and pleasant vacation. 

Here's what we learned:

1. Sunset is an event worth scheduling your day around. 


2. Monkeys are the raccoons of Thailand. 


Super cute; full of trash


3. Phranang Beach is the best of the best. If you google image Railay you'll certainly get results of Phranang. So do that because they're all better than the pictures I took. 

4. The best food is also there. These sweet little boats that come over from Ao Nang and park on the beach all day. 


The pad Thai from the second-to-last boat is literally the best I've had in Thailand or elsewhere. See below for gratuitous demonstration. We got it twice. 


5. A pleasant hotel is worth the effort/investment. Much of our time was spent oh-so-happily on our peaceful and beautiful balcony. 


6. Doing nothing is a quite something. We lived like glamour queens for three days and I wouldn't change a bit of it. 


More than once we asked each other "what do you want to do now?" And the answer always came back as "...this."

If that isn't nice, what is?


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