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This year, for New Years, we decided to do something special. @hirondelle, Stef and I decided to spend the turning of the decade at one of @hirondelle and mine favorite places. We wanted to go down to Krabi to Railay. One of the nice things about Railay is that it is on a peninsula where you can walk from the east side to the west side in about 5-10 minutes, so you can get amazing sunrises in the morning, hang out at some awesome beaches and then get an incredible sunset. @hirondelle and I have been to Railay two other occasions. The first time was when @hirondelle took me there 14 years ago before I started working in a school for the first time. We went there in May, which is the end of the season, so there were very few people. We stayed at Railay Bay Resort & Spa. The first time we stayed there, it was so basic. They had like 3 or rows of cottages/bungalows and a row of multi-level suites. There was a dirt path that ran down to the beach. The beach was amazing, and on our second day, we found this lovely little coffee shop that made fresh coffee. You could hang out there, and if you didn't have something to read, they had a shelf full of books for you to take a look at. The second time we went, it was in October, which was the end of high season, and we stayed at the same resort, Railay Bay Resort & Spa, but everything changed so much. the villas were much nicer, and most of the villas had their own private out door jacuzzi. It was still really nice. This time, when we decided to go, we looked at Railay Bay Resort & Spa, but it was so expensive, we decided to stay at a resort just north of Railay Bay & Spa at a place called Railay Phutawan Resort, which is in the mountains a little bit, which was cool. They also had a lovely little cliff/mountain that people could learn to climb on, which was pretty cool. I took a great nighttime photo of it. One of the lovely things about staying at Railay, is you can't drive to it. You have to fly into Krabi town, go to the shore, and get a boat to Railay. So we arrived at Railay Bay East, and climbed into a trailer attached to a tractor and drove us up to the resort. When we got up there, our room wasn't quite ready yet, so they had us go up to the bar area, which kind of over looks all of Railay East and West. Beautiful view. We sat there for a bit and had a drink and relaxed. Our first day in Krabi, we spent just unwinding and recovering from getting up so early for our flight to Krabi. It was nice though. Our second day, Stef took us to this beach that previously could reach by taking a sea kayak to. Apparently, they made a walk way from Railay Bay East to this beach just south of Railay Bay East and West. All I can say, is this is the most packed I've ever seen this beach to be. I couldn't believe it. I've not seen this many people on a beach since I'd been to Misquamicut Beach in Rhode Island back in the early 90's. We did eventually find a nice place under some trees back up from the beach. Stef and I did have a quick swim in the sea, but Stef was being stung by jellyfish larvae, so we decided to get out. After a bit, we decided to go have some pizza at a place Stef knew about on the East Bay. We some pizza for lunch and some beers and relaxed. I got some some great pictures of Stef and @hirondelle while we were at the pizza place. I tell you, I'm one of the luckiest men in the world. After we finished our pizza, Stef wanted to take me to this massage place that she went to the last time she was in Krabi, but it was closed, so we wandered back up East Bay and found another place. We both got oil massages and they were really good. After our massages, Stef and I headed back to the hotel to get @hirondelle to go have dinner. Stef fancied a burger, so we found a place on Walking Street that did burgers with a guy that playing guitar, so we decided to eat there. The music was decent, but the burgers were kind of shit. First, they didn't have cheese, and then when we got them, they were really small. At least I had some great company. The next day, we hung out around the resort mostly, but then in the evening, we decided we wanted to go have pizza at the pizza place again for dinner. The reason why we decided on the east side, was because there were some Muay Thai fights going on at one of the local bars, and we wanted to go see them. Once we finished dinner, that's where we went. We saw a few fights, and they were pretty good. No knockouts that we saw, but still really good. For our fourth day, we walked around a bit, but we had decided to have dinner at Railay Bay Resort & Spa. When @hirondelle and I stayed here before, it was one of our favorite places to eat, because they had the best food really. and they usually have a great seafood spread. Sadly, they didn't have have seafood, but we ordered some good food, and I got some great sunset pictures. The next day, was our final day. It was New Years Eve, and our resort said we could book a table at their New Years Eve dinner, so we decided to have dinner at the resort, but I also wanted to try the kra paow burger at our coffee place, so we decided to go there for lunch. That burger was awesome! That night, we had dinner at our resort. The food was really good and after dinner they had a fire show. The fire show was cool, but the show was done with like teenagers. Was still cool to watch. After that, we worked our way down to the beach to watch the New Years fireworks display. The three of us hung out and chatted while we waited. The fireworks were awesome! I loved them. Once the firewoks were done, we headed back up to the room. The next morning we caught our boat and headed back to Krabi to catch our flight back to Bangkok.

Looking lovely @Aliea Looking sharp @Moonhawk

So we have sold this lovely bike and we bought a lovely new bike. We've actually had it. for over a year now, but. we love it. It's a Honda. Rebel 500.

The Scorpion - Clan Wars First Scroll - Legend of the Five Rings - Stephen D. Sullivan This is a re-read for me. I love this series of books.

That sad thing, here in Bangkok, is that they have but a ban on the sale of alcohol. The good things is, @hirondellewent out and bought me some beer the day before and I have a number of bottles of alcohol to drink.

I struggle with audiobooks. If they have the wrong person reading them or the wrong voice, it can kill it for me. I will try to listen to these though.

One of the things that's helping me is the fact that I can't really do much as I'm recovering from knee surgery. I've been watching tons of movies and tv series, but I plan on starting to write soon. I have a few blog posts in mind that I want to write, plus I've put up a few polls.

LOL, I've watched a lot! Red Army Best of the Best Prisoners Children of Men just to name a few. LOL

Let's see, I've watched: Greatest Events of WWII in Color Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits Fastest Car How to Fix a Drug Scandal to name a few.

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As much as I love physical books, we end up owning just way too many, and (1) they are just simply a pain in the ass to move from place to place, and (2) we just don't have the shelve space for all the books we own. Now, we only keep certain authors for physical books (Terry Brooks) and gifts for physical books, and everything else we do our best to go for ebooks. I read ebooks on my iPad mini, which is only connected to the internet unless I have connected to wifi, so it works awesome for me, plus it's the size of a kindle, which I love as well.

We've watched The Crown. We are watching Black Sails (again) with Stef. We have just watched Sons of Anarchy again and are in the second season. We're also watching Sherlock Holmes. The new one. Really good.

Hey @Dulcet. I'm glad things are alright in your neck of the woods. Yeah, all big group things, 50 people or more, have been canceled unless you can get special permission from the police. Don't know how that works, but yeah. I think now, the government is saying to stay inside as much as possible. It isn't mandatory yet, but they are suggesting it. @hirondelle has better information than I do.

huggles @SoulDragon. You made it back now, and that's important. Please stay safe over there Souly. We are thinking about you here.

huggles I'm glad that you are getting some extra time with your kids. I hope your agoraphobia and anxiety aren't getting too bad.

Just keep coming back when you can @Tika, we will always be here. If things get too crazy, and you need to vent, we are always here. hug

huggles @Forest Mage We are here for you Forest Mage and sending you love.

Oh, telework has to suck. I'm so sorry @icewlf. I know what you mean about needing physical contact. I'm lucky in the fact that I have @hirondellehere with me.

big huggles to you also. I hope you're staying safe and healthy!

Hey @fox, I heard that you were quarantining. I'm sending you strength.

Hey @Deano. Things are starting to get serious here as well. The government today has asked that people go out as little as possible. Less than a week ago, they asked that all entertainment venues close, so pubs, bars, movie theaters, massage parlors () were to close. Pubs and bars could get around it by saying they are restaurants if they served food though.

Hmmmm. Weird @Deano. I'll have a look to see what I can find.

Link?

Do you still have a site @Deano?