Koh Chang

As you'll know, it was the Kings Birthday on Thursday.  This meant that it was a national holiday.  Mr John decided to take Friday off as well and so we went off to Whitesands resort on Koh Chang for three heavenly nights.  The ferry ports on both the mainland (Trat) and the island are really pretty with the colour of the water and beautiful blue skies.

We stayed again at the KC Grande as we'd had such a good time there in September for my birthday.   It was great to see all the Christmas decorations up in reception.

We had a good sized room and it was very handy to the restaurant for breakfast.  Last time we stayed, we were in the building across the road with the roof top pool and we made use of the pool again as the main one was a little busy.

One of the best things for us going here is the food that you can get and some of the bars in the area.  We especially like La Dolce Vita Italian.  The owner is from Milan and the food is excellent.  Not only that but the house wine is not at all bad.  Mr John really enjoyed the Tiramisu!!  We also like having a quiet drink at the 15 Palms because you can sit in beanbags and look out to sea, including some lovely moonlight reflecting on the water - dead romantic!

We had a fantastic time and Mr John also had Tuesday off as it's Constitution Day here.  Speaking of which, the Kings birthday brought some welcome relief to the protests in Bangkok and the Prime Minister has said there will be an election as soon as possible.