Another day in the heat finding the shade and enjoying the luxury of this hotel. One of the great jobs here  is to be a gardener who gets to sweep the beach every day. Yesterday he appeared in Wellies to walk the water line and sweep up all the debris into a long handled dustpan. I have to say he didn't look totally satisfied in his work.
In the evening we have been joining the growing band who leave the hotel to go into Hua Hin where things are considerably cheaper. To give you an idea a bottle of water (500ml) in the hotel is 100 Thai baht, the same can be bought in town for 8 baht. Consequently the "smugglers" go into town and buy water ,beer and snacks to bring back. Being with Rosemarie ,of course, we do this in style, taking an empty rucksack and filling it with litre bottles of water and beer so as not to look too conspicuous. However our companions last night showed no such panache and came back on board the minibus with gallon containers of water and put cardboard boxes of beer in the boot.
The maths are relatively simple, a litre bottle of water costs 14 baht in town, in the hotel it would cost us 212baht including taxes. Even with the 200 baht the hotel charges for the bus to take us into town it is easy to make a profit. I am  surprised some budding entrepreneur isn't making a killing selling to their guests.
Hua Hin is obviously a centre of German and Northern European tourism, everything is translated into German including the menu of the restaurant we have found which perches out over the Pacific on stilts.
There is no European type esplanade because that's would  remove business opportunities, how stupid of us to think there might have been one.
Despite staying in the shade all day yesterday because on Doctor's orders I am not allowed to sunbathe I managed   to get  sunburn on both of my legs and my face. Clearly the cotton umbrella I was sheltering under did not stop UV rays. Luckily for us we caught it in time and I covered up otherwise it might have been serious. I can still feel my forehead burning as I write this.
There is a really friendly night market in Hua Hin where no no one keeps out at you and tries to persuade you to buy something au,ch a change from Bangkok and Chiang Mai.