2026 Day 1

 Arrived back to Bangkok safe and happily had Bernard briefly in a gorgeously aesthetic apartment up on Ruam Rudee, gathering a few essentials before replacing and heading out towards Pattaya and the Royal Varuna Yacht Club with Nima and Kim. This will be where we spend a few days seeing in the New Year. 

It’s relaxing and the days moves rhythmically between moments of solitude to action on the Hobie Cat to dinners with some of Nima’s ‘set’ , as they would have been known. Women who went to the same Bangkok kindergarten , whose life paths have kept them connected to Thailand and their old friends. 

Sailing in the Gulf of Thailand is lovely, it’s not raining, it’s not cold, the waves provide some thrill as does the wind when it picks up but thrills do not become fears and there’s no sense of danger should we capsize or fall in. It’s pleasant to look at a sea and not imagine sharks or crocodiles lurking beneath the ruffle of tide and swell. 

It is in fact all together so pleasant that aside from consuming books and a series on Netflix I’ve been soporific and soothed altogether by the creative company, clear skies and calm sounds of the sea. 

All sense of urgency has slipped away and all I want to do is bask under the soft glow of the sun and sleep. 




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