Sunday 8 February 2015

Rest & Reflection at The Pullman Resort Khao Lak..

Well Day 8 didnt start well.. So that should have an indicator to how the day would progress!!

Alarm went off as usual 6.05am and i leapt out of bed and into the shower. Filled the kettle with water and flicked the switch, i heard it click off but was by then distracted with packing up so i flicked it again a few minutes later and then when i heard it boil and click off i dived on it (time is precious in the morning here lol) and tried to lift it off its base.. 
Not the best idea when the flaming thing didnt have a base.. 
Budget hotel obviously was so called as it didnt have any post 80's electrical bits.. 

So on the second yank the boiling water poured all over my hand - Big Ouch and dash to the bathroom for running cold water or rather tepid water.. Howling in pain i then found some cold water bottles  from the fridge and spent the next 10 minutes rolling my hand on the bottles trying to cool down my hand.. So not the best start of the day..


Andy Inskip very kindly clocked us out and we were off .. 


On our way to Krabi and 'Krabi i was with my hand wrapped in a stolen hotel flannel.. I tried to keep it cool by pouring water over it every so often.. Bad mistake as i have to stop the pages of the route book down with right hand so pages got a bit damp. So regularity page got damp and disintergrated lol..



What a way to travel..



1st stop Cabbages and Condoms lol
Littel cafe fund raising for The Aids Charity.. So selling condom keyrings..






We had a brief discussion here with one of the other competitors about the 'Phuket & Over' Test but i told him that we usually take part in all the Tests and just go at our own 'safe' pace.. That is if we can find the Start of the Test..

A Bag of ice obtained and some cream from the Gorgeous Gaby in car number 47 :)) and we were on our way to Regularity Test number 1 


Whilst on our 1st ever!! Regularity Test In The Itala lol David asked me how we were doing.. Well i know Davids pace is usually flat out wherever but To the roads conditions of course!! But even 'Moi' could see that we couldnt possible manage it on the Old Girl. We were 40 seconds too slow and building up to a minute going down hill and he asks me how we were doing.. 'Too fast, too slow? He enquired. Well how could i say he was going too slow?? Yikes .... I did say at a convenient location 'you can speed it up if you want' lol
The only chance we got to speed up was on the flat and there and behold were the marshall so grind to a halt we did. Havent checked the timings but i gathered we were 40 seconds too slow which i thought wasnt too bad until i heard one Team exclaim 7 seconds out and another 1 second lol OOOooops :((

Please note selotaped edges..
You dont know the half of it!! Lol

Then this is where it all went wrong..
See below..
More later..



But now safely relaxing at The Pullman Khao Lak Kayiliya Resort just outside Phuket..



 This lovely navigator got a grilling last night too (we met them on 'route 66' lol but all well that ends well..

The 'lost' in france bits are always the Fun bits after the event..
Great after dinner stories tee hee

Hand is doing well..



Ha who the heck is that??



This view takes away all the Pain!!
Off to see the resident elephant now ;))

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