5-2 Krabe (really we are in Ao Nang)

 After we checked out our home for the two weeks, we used the Grab app which we still had on our phones since we used it in Malaysia last year.

We got a Grab taxi to the Locust grocery store.  We plan to do minimal cooking here as getting take-out or going to the local restaurants is really cheap.  We got eggs, bread, orange juice and snacks.  Our Airbnb has a water filter system in the kitchen - so for once we will not have to buy water.  I just hate all the plastic that is involved with that.

For dinner that evening, we used the Grab app to order food - the delivery is so cheap.  The food was so-so, but we were not so hungry.  Monday morning we made eggs, bacon and toast with orange juice.  Michael had coffee and I had tea.  We planned to eat lunch out - our big meal of the day and then snack at night.  This is our usual pattern when traveling.  

Around 12;30pm we headed toward the water.  We saw lots of restaurants - but almost all were closed.  So again, we have to figure out what the local food culture is.  What time do the local people eat meals here?  Are we here before the "season" starts?  There is so much Indian food close to us - where is the Thai food?  We eat at an Indian Restaurant in a hawker like mall where they are one of two open booths -there are ten + not occupied.  I am thinking we are here early.  It's not the tourist season yet. 

The restaurant we choose is just beyond the mosque.

I am not sure what these are called.  They are not a three wheeled Tuk-Tuk.  But they are the same principle - a motorcycle with a covered cart to carry people from place to place.

The Indian restaurant we went to was at the very back of this hawker mall space.

The food was pretty good.

It is also freaking hot here.  The temperatures during the day go up to the mid-nineties, the lows do not go below 80.  The humidity is very high.  We have just been in China where the temps did not get higher than 70+.  Stepping into the pool feels like stepping into a bathtub - the water is that warm.  We are developing a pattern of going into the pool in the morning for 30 minutes or less - we have not used sun screen yet and again in the evening for a longer period.  I shower after the evening swim - so I can go to bed not feeling sticky.