Hua Hin's great. It's not undiscovered by any means (let's face it, if it's got a 3 page write-up in Lonely Planet, it's pretty much discovered) but it's not a totally tourist-oriented place. Here you can actually see Thai people doing Thai things, rather than disinterestdly refusing to lower the price on a pair of sunglasses for yet another western tourist. There are plenty of tour operators and 24 hour tailors here, but the place has it's own character so that walking down the street here, you actually feel like you are in a Thai town, which is definately not the case in Koh Samui, Phuket's Patong beach, or Koh Pha Ngan's Hat Rin area at FMP time.

After I got up and took a shower, I came out to the decking over the sea to reconsult my guide book and to find out where I could get some breaky. Across the water though, there was a pier style restaurant, so I took my guide book over there. Hua Hin is a big area for seafood. There's a nightly seafood market here that I'm gonna check out. The restaurant turned out to specialise in seafood, so instead of having toast and coffee for breakfast, I ended up having a plate of fried rice with chicken, and a plate of mixed seafood in red curry, all of which I doused with plenty of naam bplaa prik (chilli fish sauce). It was very tasty. The restaurant is a funky little place, with lots of pretty potted plants around, and the tables are glass topped things with seashells and bits of driftwood arranged inside.

From the restaurant looking back to the guest house, I saw that it's almost completely over water. When I arrived last night, it must have been low tide, because there was definitley more sand then. I think I might stay here one more night before I change accomodation. The bed's comfortable enough, and sitting out on the decking above the sea is pretty nice. When I move, I think I'll try to find another pier-style place.