A day at the spa and a chat with a thai bar girl
Monday, August 7, 2006 at 01:08AM So yesterday Debbie and I feeling rather crushed by the stressful life we have been leading here in Thailand decided to treat ourselves (this seems like the theme of our trip lately) and go for a 4 hour spa treatment. Can I tell you how GLORIOUS that was. Started off with a welcome drink, some cushy slippers and then we got to choose the scents we wanted for all the different things we were getting done. I chose pineapple for the body scrub and ylang ylang for the massage. Sigh.
Then we were off to the steam bath for 30 minutes, after we were completely wilted and made of jell-o, they came and took us into a beautiful room and gave us a full body scrub with the pineapple scrub I have selected. It smelt and felt divine. After washing you off, they put a black mud all over our bodies, wrapped us in plastic and placed a big cushy towel on us and left the room (for how long I have no idea as I quickly dozed to sleep). A hot shower and then you are back on the table for an hour long massage (drool, drool) and then they end it with an hour long facial (I fell asleep again in there somewhere). We left the spa feeling like our skin was made of silk but our feet were made of lead. We went out for a nice dinner, made the mistake of ordering a 1/2 litre of wine and barely spoke through our meal because our minds had turned to mush. We were in bed and sound asleep before 10pm.
But that is ok, because the night before we were out til 3am...which is a big night for us as I think it is the first time we have been out to a bar since we were back in Sri Lanka.
We went out with Denise...a lovely British woman who is Ben's neighbour and we met her while we were visiting Ben. She took us to this lovely restaurant that is kind of out of the way...tucked away and filled with thai's...which is a good indication that the foot is good. We had prawns in a sweet basil sauce, chinese broccoli with anchovies, steamed vegetables in an oyster sauce, steamed sea bass in soy sauce and some mussels to start. It was a feast.
After dinner we headed back to downtown Hua Hin and went to a bar. The first bar was mostly drunk Europeans dancing and being rowdy to loud techno music...so we moved on after only one drink. While walking down the street, Denise was accosted by a little thai bar girl. She managed to convince us to go into the bar and have a drink. She came and sat with us. Her English was amazing and we had a good conversation about what life is like for thai bar girls. How much of it is to be believed...who knows. She told us that she doesn't have a farang (foreign) boyfriend...which she says is kind of the dream of most girls. That she has no husband and no boyfriend at all. She said she has been in the business for a long time...and that she hoped to find a nice man to share her life with...but that experience has shown her that all men want is 'boom boom'. I quote using her words here, so if anyone under the age of 18 is reading this please pardon the language. She said "men same, same fuck".
She told us that most people think thai women don't have hearts because they are always smiling...but they are the same as the rest of us. She has cried herself to sleep before...and I can believe it. The impression you get from them is that they are always happy because they are always smiling...but I just think they are incredible actresses and my heart goes out to all of them. I think what they have to do for a living, must suck the very souls out of each and every one of them.
She was a very sweet woman. Showed us pictures of her dogs and her cats. We have been told that a book called Private Dancer gives a really good picture of the life of the bar girls here in thailand, so if anyone is interested in reading it...go out and get it. We bought it last night...so I will let you know what I think about it.
Thailand is a beautiful place, but it leaves you feeling really conflicted. Or at least that is the way it has left me feeling. Watching all of these men, taking these young, beautiful thai girls home, whether it is for the night or for a week...just makes my heart break.
Well Deb and I are off for a walk on the beach...so I will dip my toes in the sea for you.
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Love you long time...keep your stick on the ice eh! Big D.V hug from Tiff and the kids