phuket food snapshots

we'd a couple of friends in phuket at the same time and they kept our insta-feeds, well, fed, with amazing photos of delicious looking phuket food trails and all the best local food the island had to offer. despite the crazy temptation at hand and mega lure of our friends' discerning palates (they're foodies not to be messed with!) we just couldn't muster up the energy to leave the villa. didn't hurt that the chef was beyond amazing and we had four of each main meal with nary a repeat. if you think that's impressive (i sure do, with my relatively limited repertoire!) our hosts told us they once stayed for two weeks without a repeat. thai culinary prowess and legendary hospitality at its finest :) tried not to do the azn thing so unforch these are the only two 'food' photos i have. because, anyway, food photos. love-hate relationship, yes?

phuket

the stars aligned and we were very lucky to have a four day weekend last week. even more fortunate was to have gracious friends who invited us to stay at their home. it's a beautiful villa perched just above the andaman sea and the mister and i were last there during our minimoon. we were staying somewhere else but the friends, who were guests at our wedding, insisted we cancel our booking and stay at theirs as their guests. we'd have done that in a heartbeat but because the mister had already paid in full, our friends invited us to spend an afternoon (lunch, massage, more massage!) at theirs instead.

 

it was such a treat to return a year later and spend four full days in the most beautiful surroundings. usually so itchy feet but had absolutely no desire to leave the villa for the duration of our stay. 

rounding up the minimoon

three days in phuket was way too short but when your days start like this...

round up with glass after glass as the sun sets

which don't bode well for precarious roof-edge shots

but if one's last sunset were to look like this...

who's complaining :)

a visit to friends'

after two days of languishing in our villa, our wanderlust got the better of us and we were more than happy to take up a very kind friend's offer to visit her villa. as it turns out, it was just a stone's throw from where we were staying. we spent the afternoon at hers, tucking into a hearty thai feast, followed sufficiently later by a two hour (!) massage and more lounging by the sea. bliss!

the pool

and because our personal infinity pool just wasn't enough (haha, it was, i'm just being difficult) the main pool was even more beauteous.

chivalry is alive and wading

self-confessed internet junkie, and shade seeker

sky, sea and pool

the pool by night

minimoon

phuket was a dream and i'm truly grateful for a husband who's planner supreme. after planning and executing three weddings with aplomb, he also pulled off a wonderful minimoon. to be fair, we did roadtrip iceland after the wedding. but seriously, 13 hour treks up fjords, beautiful as they may be, do not a honeymoon make. 

so to phuket it was! near enough to singers so we don't waste precious holiday time, and far away to be blissfully undisturbed by our well-meaning folks. 

our very own infinity pool overlooking the andaman sea

a good clean massage, overlooking the andaman sea.

as a funny sidenote, my resourceful husband somehow scored us a double upgrade so while he paid for a basic room, we were really living it up in a beautiful villa with its own pool. it was so beautiful and secluded we hardly saw any other guests and quite embarrassingly, i started to fear for my kidneys, lest they be fattening us up for the kill on the last day. but we lived to tell the tale :)