Late brekkie
Breakfast with villagers. The Tap Tawaan team are met by the monk who apologises profusely for the breakfast being late. Which it is to be fair - Jamie's starving. Other monks deliver a fairly lengthy address to the villagers that the diggers have joined. Restless kids squabble and giggle whilst puppies harass the pigs. Then the food comes out and everyone mixes and shares fruit, donuts, rice, vegetables and rice. Jamie is passed peeled fruit by an old women who's gnarly fingers he eyes suspiciously. What he didn't notice however was the enthusiastic compare that appeared from behind to thrust a microphone into his hand insisting that he say something to the village. Blimey. He duly stands and mutters an embarrassed thank you to a partly bemused and partly disinterested crowd. Things improve for Sabrina as, in the absence of anyone doing it for her, she carves a role coordinating the front desk. The bungalow is good enough for a long stay, and we negotiate a monthly rate of 6000 baht (ฃ80).
