Journey Journal Monaco Day 2 "In Menton"
I woke
up the next morning by the Southern Thai dialect accent coming from the bank of
the pool approximately 10 meters on the left side of my room’s balcony. It was
Daranee who was chitchating with her Thai friend from Thailand on her celphone.
As the villa was on hill and the pool area was surrounded partly with stone and
row of trees on the other side.The sound could be echoed pretty well,even
through the slide double-glass door of my bedroom.I must
emphasize Southern Thai dialect is a kind of sturdy,heavy and somewhat manly
language. It may sound a bit rough if you don’t know its genuin characters. If you
hear both counterparts talking without seeing their faces, you might probably
think they are quarelling. But there’s nothing such, rather than the sincerity
and wholeheartedness derived from deep down bottomhearts of speakers, believe me.
The Southern Thai people are very well known of being flocked. Like other
social animals, we love gathering to the same species and hanging around each
other when possible. No less than that ,we enjoy keeping in touch quite a lot or....other words...socializing with each other pretty much.And
so...the loud and tough voice of Daranee that morning, was not an hassle and it
didn’t bother me at all. On the contrary,I considered it a snug good-morning call to dig me out of bed to
join her a very fantastic and isolated presence on high hill. Let us just celebrate
the day together.
Breakfast
was served after our warm-greeting-hug whereat Daranee hung up the line and
turned her face to Grace and me. Pleasant and Joyful conversation among us
started consequently.
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| our breakfast that morning |
Our
forenoon activity that day was not much more than talking to one another ,to
catch up with everything we had been missing. And also to tune on those social
medias to let friends and the world know where we were and what we were doing.
That was kind of fun thing so far. Well,whether they would be interested in it
or not ,actually I didn’t mind. To speak my thought and words out on letters
was what mattered me most.
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| Catching up w/ what we have been missing |
Besides
talking to each other face-to-face and leaving words on medias, Grace and I
were enjoying swimming at the pool pretty much. Laying sunbathing was also one of Grace's favorites. I, on the other hand, prefered not to expose to the
sun that much. In fact, I was confronting skin problem and having lots of
pimples on my face those days. And so I tried not to make thing worse and was
looking forward to seeing doctor once I was home in The Netherlands the week later.
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| GrcaeAnne was enjoying sunbathing along the pool |
Daranee
loved talking both on phone and to us. I shall say, we could spend that morning
together harmoniously till the noon approached. Then we went for lunch at
Darane’s restaurant “Royal Thai”again, planning to visit Menton later when the
sunray became softer. Our lunch was great. Again they were selected according
to our eating habit, some easy-digestable dishes,composing of much of vegetable
then.
Later
in the afternoon, we left to Menton,the pearl of France.Menton is definitely a
lemontown. I saw yellow lemons everywhere. Parfumes ,oils and soaps, for
example, are made here too. I smelled
fragrances and aromas allover the atmosphere when we were strolling along the tourists'walking street. They also say Menton is very famous for
its gardens ,whether Jardin Serre de la Madone, the Fontana Rosa or the Jardin
Botanique exotique de Menton, I didn’t see any of them I must confess. Not even
seen the port and an old part of town. That’s too bad,I know that . Probably because it’s too hot and we didn’t feel like to walk much that day. Let me make a better story next time. I guarantee I will be back here and will have more to tell by
then.
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Dropped for some shoots
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The
main aim that afternoon after parking the car close to the market place was to
get some icy ice cream to cool our
throat off and we did it before moving on to Saint Michel Church,where we
went inside and stayed for a while as we were making some wishes.
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| downstairs from St.Michel |
Right,
we were making wishes and if our wishes come true we will come back for sure to
thank and to show our gratitude.We smiled to each other and...
Let's move on to the next station...
Till
next time then.Pari
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Me and Daranee
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| Daranee and GraceAnne |
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avoided crowded street
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