She who must be obeyed has left me again. This time she has gone to Koh Chang island where her company is developing a site of small land plots next to the sea at extraordinary prices. The boss of the company has taken a bunch of employees for a site-seeing visit which appears to involve a lot of eating and chatting.
A call an hour or so ago:
She: It’s very lovely down here. The sea is so clear and the air is so fresh and there is no traffic. Maybe we should think about buying some land.
Me: Hmmm. How did you get there?
She: Long drive, then had to take a ferry and the sea was rough.
Me: Any decent supermarkets on the island?
She: No.
Me: Any cinemas?
She: No.
Me: How about restaurants?
She: Yes, but the food is crap.
Me: Hospitals?
She: No.
Me: Hmmm.
She: Maybe we don’t want to buy land here after all.
Me: I agree with you.
Koh Chang, sounds nice but I wouldn’t want to live there. And certainly not at the prices her company is charging.
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2008-09-19| David Higgs saysThere are some great hospitals in Koh chang. Every kind of restaurant including Indian, Italian and all European cusines. Did this traveer bring her whitw stick ???
2008-09-19| David Higgs saysTRAVELER, WHITE STICK
2008-09-19| Billy saysmmmmm … in fact the traveller did recognise the existence of restaurants, just said the food was crap.
Presumably the (well hidden) hospitals are provided with a steady stream of customers by the restaurants.
2008-09-21| Spike saysThank you for your clarifications in capitals, without which we would have had no idea what you were on about.
“This traveller” (two ’l’s is the way I spell it), is my wife, and her vision is 20/20; which I admit is hard to accept given that she married me; but I assure you she is not blind which was what your rather obnoxious comment implied.
But indeed she did miss the only hospital (not “some”), which offers english-speaking doctors between 0830-1630 Monday-Friday, so don’t get sick outside those hours and don’t expect them to deal with something like a heart attack.
As for the food, she is Thai, she ate Thai food, she said it sucks. I believe her. I also believe what others tell me that the food is poor, the island is riddled with gangsters and it may be an OK place to visit for a while; but not to visit.
Your glowing endorsement I am sure is totally independent of the fact that you are in the property business….
2008-09-22| Jock saysI remember drinking Chang (beer) while riding a Chang on Koh Chang one time …. and there was even a baby Chang on trail with us at the time …
Fond memories … well worth a week-end trip.