More boxing

31/5/11

Day two of the Lu lu plan and James is wavering... he needed an extra hour in bed but was still up by 8.45. During the time he was sleeping I organized mopeds (this time not handing over my passport!) and we set off in the direction of the beech. Sometime later we arrived at a beech but realized that we had overshot our intended destinations by some way and were at the next beech. After retracing our steps and numerous map checking (annoying James) and a liberal number of times forgetting to turn off my bike indicator (also annoying James but understandably so) we arrived at Chwang beach.

We walked along the beach and James managed to select a rater expensive and well reviewed restaurant for a snack. Admittedly his food was good but when the bill came his snack had cost more than a normal lunch for us both. Well who ever said Lady James was cheep? That said it did entitle us to sit on the wonderfully padded and comfortable sun loungers for a bit of sunbathing in the shade. Amazingly James has become a sun avoider as living in the heat its ‘just to dm hot to sunbath all of the time’ music to my ears as we can now find a nice shady spot to recline in without complaint!

After afternoon at the hotel we then headed out on the mopeds to another Thai boxing match. We soon discovered that the first match was tame and obviously a training ground for younger fighters as the fighters we saw were bigger, older and more brutal. Less homoerotic but far more exciting. The highlight off the night came when a fighter from England stepped into the ring. As his build was compactly different from the Thai boxers he looked large lumbering and verging on fat… Without much hope both James and I were rooting for the English fighter and we were rewarded with a really good fight that the Englishman convincingly won. Well one supposes that if a flang comes all the way to Thailand to fight he must but good and somewhat mad….