This post was originally on my old deleted blog
Woke early and called Nit at 11, and he
arrived shortly afterwards. After eating
we took the motorbike to a friends to look after whilst we were out of
town. We jumped on two motor bike taxis
and headed for the bus station.
Arrived at 1300 and got tickets for the
1330 bus. Problem was no buses and the
1250 still had not arrived to leave. A
gaggle of buses arrived over the next 10 minutes, obviously some hold up on the
way from Bangkok and we were on our way by 1345.
When we arrived at Ekamai we got a taxi to
the hotel in Huamark. The hotel would
serve it’s purpose, but would not get anywhere near my list of places to
stay. Down a dark soi, with the wall of
a mall on one side. Obviously popular
with Japanese tour groups judging from the menu. Checkin a slow nightmare. Supposedly recently opened, but already showing
signs of use. Oh well it’s for one night
and it’s within walking distance of the stadium.
My room was fine, even if the glass door to
the bathroom is disconcerting. We go and
grab something to eat in the mall…. But neither of us enjoyed the food.
Nit called his brother who reported that he
was in a taxi but had no idea how long it would take. We decided it was time to set off and told
him to meet us at the stadium. We had
the tickets. The walk took longer than
expected, being further than it looked on the map and we arrived at the stadium
at 1815. A phone call, his brother was
almost there.
His brother and friends arrived about 1830
and we went into the stand. Of course by
the time we got inside Thailand were already one goal down. Found some seats as, even though our tickets
said we had designated seats, it was free seating.
The game was entertaining with Thailand
working hard but not being able to find the back of the net and Oman seemingly
intent on collecting as many yellow cards as possible.
Try as they might the ball stayed out the
back of the net and on the final whistle we left and went to find some
food. We headed towards the hotel and
eventually spied a buffet restaurant so went in and ate. Nit’s brother headed off home after eating as
he had to be up for work. We walked back
to the hotel where we had a beer in the bar and relaxed.
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