Hua Hin, the beach resort town famous for its close association with the Thai royalty, is located 2-hour drive south of Bangkok. Before being a beach resort address, the village was inhibited by a group of farmers who moved south from their drought stricken agricultural home of Phetchaburi Province in 1834. When King Prajadhipok (King Rama VII) spotted the beauty of the land and the beach in 1921, he built a summer palace there and named it Klai Kang Won. After this, a series of other palaces followed. The actual name ‘Hua Hin’ was coined by His Royal Highness Prince Krom Phra Naresworarit who named the beach next to his palace.
At Hua Hin, we stayed at a contemporary styled hotel called The Lapa Hotel. Started and run by one of Sunsun’s relatives, The Lapa is a relatively small but exclusive resort with space lavish suites and villas. Though not directly next to the coast, the beach is accessible easily by walking across the road.
Being a fan of contemporary/minimalist style furnishing, the suite we stayed was large and roomy enough for Nita to run around and roam for hours. Other than the toiletry at the wash basin, the room is child-safe to leave Nita to roam by herself while we rested after the long drive.
The cafe…
The pool and the surrounding villas… It has a library and a man-made beach made of stone…
I got 2 jobs… One in Malaysia and got another one last year in Singapore.
I am spending more and more time with lil’ Nita, who is gradually becoming quite a handful with her growing weight, mass and activity level.
I got addicted to watches, so I’m spending most of my time on the net on reading blogs, forums and official websites on watches. (Maybe I can write more on watches?)
I’m travelling less for leisure, so I’ve less travelling blogs to add.
I want to add more to this list, but if you’re a parent yourself, you can understand what the first two can mean to time availability.
Nita did what we call the ‘cobra position’ in yoga language when we placed her chest down on her cot last two days. We didn’t manage to catch most of it but this was what we captured on video…
... And we now learn she sleeps better and longer chest down. We let her have her pacifier while laying chest down (though we know it’s not the wisest thing to do) but we always keep watch and take the pacifier out after she’s fallen asleep.
Today’s Full Month Cake distribution day. All in all we have 20 over boxes to distribute. The boxes arrived around noon and by around 3pm, half of the lot were already delivered. The second half will be delivered to relatives who aren’t home until evening.
