Seaview, Service with Sincerity

I’m sitting to write from my perfect possy, poised at my balcony overlooking the gardens of the Grande View Resort, to the sea and beyond.
Lori and I are booked in an hour to have side by side massages, after arriving here, settling in and having a delicious lunch, of you guesses it Thai food.
The Resort owner Terry, who we met yesterday and who went out of his way in a most friendly way, gave us an even better deal, than we’d negotiated yesterday, upon arrival today (Tuesday 21sst April).
I remarked to Lori that we had found another ‘Bronwen’. Terry, like her had that WOW factor of, by being heart centered people person’s give first and foremost from a place of sharing their abundance, love of their land and creation upon it.
As we checked in and handed over a NZ passport, he delighted in telling us his son was in NZ studying. It came down to his 16 year old nephew, being in 6th form at Cashmere High School, Christchurch – an area I’ve recently lived in. I will definitely make a connection with him when I get home.
Making connections is what this trip is so about, connecting to the heart and soul of the country and its people.
Just making a booking for our massages, a girl receiving one engaged me in conversation, brilliant English speaking, it turns out she’s married to a Swedish man, lives in his country and works as a translator of Thai to Swedish. She, her name Bee, has a friend in NZ who has been begging her to come visit, I passed her my card with NZ address and told her it was a sign that she must come.

Anyway to back up to our day only half spent but fully lived, Lori roused me at about 6.30 am to come be by the pool and beach at our resort, further down the coast of Koh Chang at Kae Bay Beach. Its so much quieter there, less touristy, and with pool, palms and the sea, all was magnificent. I took a swim in the pool followed by doing my morning exercises (Energization Exercises) looking seaward, allbeit the rising sun behind me (we’re on the coast for sunsets, with big rainforest covered hills inbetween.

I then took a walk along a white sandy beach and started to discover my third collection of heartstones, these ones not stones but lovely sculpured pieces of coral. In finding and choosing them I knew that this my third collection would be about passing them on, so with each one picked up, I picked a friend to whom I would give one. If you’re reading this you’re a likely recipient!!

After a swim in the sea and a short dip in the pool again, I enjoyed a liesurely breakfast with Lori that included some of the sweetest fresh pineapple I’ve ever tasted,…by then its only about 9.30am and my day is so full of a simple yet profound peace and flow.

In no hurry to be anywhere, we spent a couple of hours by the pool reading and swimming, before finally packing to move to our next experience up the road a bit, now at White Sand Beach, Koh Chang.

With time to spare I invited Lori to a gorgeous Tea house, and ordered a Tibetan Butter tea mystery choice that was yummy, with Lori having a fresh Lemon grass one. Again we witnessed the owner going out of his way with special touches of unexpected sweet treats. It was a very special place of which these photos attest. We were heartened to read the wisdom of the Dali Lama.

Our ease of transition to this resort was a simple as flagging a taxi, asking him to go out of his way to get our bags down the long driveway to our resort, and on to our next one, all done with a smile, and in grateful service.