Thailand Travels: Living it up in Sisaket

We decided to spend last weekend exploring our province and our local city...bit of a mistake!! We arrived in Si Saket with no real plan as to what to do, checked into a hotel (described in my lonely planet as designed like a dolls house?!) and went to explore.

We found reviews for an amazing restaurant on trip advisor, serving Thai and Western food so decided to give it a try. Frank's was definitely the weirdest place I have nearly eaten in....we arrived in what looked like somebody's house with some patio tables in the front garden. One man was sitting at the back on his laptop (presumably writing these amazing reviews on the internet for himself) and came over. We're not quite sure where he was from, maybe Germany, maybe South Africa, but we sat down and asked for a menu. There were no menus - Frank is a little bit too chilled for that. No, he had a little rummage in his personal freezer and offered us jumbo sausage and chips, pizza or something and red cabbage. It all got a bit too weird, so we made a speedy getaway back to the hotel to order room service instead...

The next day, we hit up Sisaket's biggest attraction - the aquarium! Don't get too excited -it is 2 rooms of fish tanks and a shark tunnel! At the end, we decided to go the whole way and signed up for a 15 minute fish pedicure. I have never wished time to go faster, did not really enjoy hundreds of fish tickling my feet as they ate all the dead skin. Lush.

And then came the most exciting part of the day...taxi to tescos! We ate pizza and spent hours wandering around the supermarket, and came across the highlight of the weekend - TEABAGS!! YAY!

Sunday we went to Sisaket zoo - we bought bread and bananas on the way in and fed the animals as we went around. Dan nearly caught rabies from a monkey he was trying to feed which bit him, and I stood about a metre from a hippo's mouth. Could have put my arm in if I wanted to...no thanks!!

All in all, the weekend was funny, not the most thrilling, but good to spend it with the other ETAs Meg, Sian and Dan.

We headed back to Sisaket Wednesday evening to meet up with Joe, one of last year's ETAs who is starting a road trip around remote areas where students are placed. Was good to get a bit of moral support and for him to pass on some messages back to the British Council. We spent the evening chilling out with dinner, beer, shisha and Thai pop music.