Started this morning with the idea of only doing about 80km today, was woken up by the guy next door at 5:15 with his tv blearing away, could have done with the extra 15 minute thank you very much, get up out the door down the road and on the ferry. 2 baht for the ferry and it cuts of 15km of road riding sweet. On the road and away, bit of 7 eleven as feeling hungry already, on down the road.
Now for some reason there were lots of weddings and funerals going on. All morning I had cars going back and forth with ribbons on them. So the morning went as it usually does, stop for second breakfast just after 8am after 40km. Then back on the road, at the 60km mark I was getting hungry again so it was time to look for more food, went through a village with a limited number of eating places, so cruising down the road I found on that looked pretty busy.
So I pulled over and jumped off the bike, now as I walked in I realized that it was a wedding but it was too late I had been seen by the older men, with a few arm waves I could not back out so I went over and sat down. They offered the obligatory alcoholic drink, after saying no thank you and just having a coke we sat down to chat, Not much English here folks, luckily for me there was a young guy who had a bit of English.
So I tried to ask were to get some food, and a few minutes later food was brought to me, ok so I am now part of the wedding. Have to say the food was good, Had liver with intestine curry and a Pork shoulder curry. Very nice. Anyway me and the young fella did a bit of chatting. Then the Bride and groom came out and the wedding started, can’t go now because that would look really bad.
So stayed around and took some photo’s. It was pretty interesting, they both sit behind some wooden boxes and people pour water over their hands, while the priest chats away on the microphone. The pouring of the water is like good luck and happy long marriage. So once they had done this, that’s it there married. So I got the young fella to teach me how to say congratulations in Thai.
I had already talked to the mother of the Bride and she sent the bride over to say hello to me, I did my best Ko Sa Dang Kwam Yin Dee Duy Kub (congratulations). She understood me and thanked me and I thanked her and everyone else after this and I took to the road again and headed for Hua Sai 30km it was starting to get hot. I had spent about 1 ½ hours at the wedding so it was now after lunch.
Made it to Hua Sai and meet a English girl outside the old 7 eleven now she was just passing through but could speak Thai so she asked a cop for me if there were any places to stay, we came to the conclusion that not really, right all morning I had know it was about 100miles from Songkhla to Nakhon Si Thammarat and I was thinking of giving it ago, so there it was, I had done 100km that morning so 60km more should not be too hard.
After another 20km had some more food and then there was 40km to go. The rest of the ride was pretty good. So it took about 10 hours to ride 160 km not bad have to try 200 km next just to see if I can do it. Was pretty tired but not as bad as I thought I would be. The city of Nakhon Si Thammarat looked really interesting, it had a 6 story Wat which was just outside my window, a large pagoda down the road and the some old style fortification the only problem with it is there is not many places to stay.
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