Well here we are,  the sixth day into our 3-month break – time flies when you’re doing nothing.   Hope I’m not not tempting  fate when I say so far so good in terms of my Parkinson’s.  It behaved on the flight and except for some tiny glitches, has conducted itself very properly so far.

I thought it was about time I said something in our blog, so here goes..?.

Firstly you’re wondering about the title of this entry – my immediate family know what it means and it is now a standing joke.   When we were all on holiday in Cornwall a few years ago, I asked the hotel to give me noodles for breakfast as I was bored stiff with English  cooked breakfast.   So what I did get was noodles and that’s it, nothing else but just plain noodles.  Now come on, any chef worth his salt knows that noodles come with something – greens, meat, eggs, etc or would have at least asked the question if I wanted anything to go with it.  Anyway, to my delight, this hotel, Khum Phaya, serves Asian breakfast alongside a Western one  one and I am in seventh heaven.  You can have a very tasty noodle soup freshly made or a hot buffet of steamed rice, fried rice, fried noodles and a selection of meat and vegetable dishes. They also do congee!  So am eating embarrassingly huge breakfasts and skipping lunch.  For dinner, we’ve been eating in the hotel’s restaurant and the food ( both Asian and Western selections) is very palatable.

Other than what John has said, we’ve  not done very much but we’re keeping fit – John is swimmimg lengths (brrr! ) and I go to the gym.  Yesterday we enjoyed a complimentary massage, courtesy of the hotel.  I fell asleep during the administrations  whilst John moaned as he had asked for a deep massage and he was geting it albeit a bit painful!.  We are going to another spa today just round the corner from the hotel and MUCH cheaper!  I’m going for an hour’ s foot massage followed by an hour of Aroma oil massage  and John for an hour’s body scrub and an oil massage like mine. Two hours of bliss!  At 7.00pm we’re heading for the Night Market which is supposed to have a huge variety of  street food, tons of Thai art and craft products and a innumerable other things of interest.  More to follow…..