Love tempura

When in Thailand I always try different restaurants, not always the Thai ones. Love Japanese food, so I went to one Japanese restaurant in the big shopping centre in Phuket - Jungceylon.

I tried tempura, among other things. And it was really good, as the rest of their food.

I miss Thailand!

I really miss Thailand - just walking down the road close to the sea at Kamala Beach.

This is just one of the nice, simple things in life to do, so quiet and in some ways very beautiful. Here you have an entrance, and look at all the power lines, a wonder the electricity work at all...

Mosaic table and a chair

My most read blog entry here is the one about my attempt to make an outside table with home made mosaic on top, a sea, a sun and a sky. But that did end with a disaster, the table was destroyed after a heavy rain unfortunately.

But here is one mosaic table in Thailand, and one lovely chair, in iron. Found them on a small street in Kamala Beach in Phuket, with an elephant and all. Really nice, and they where home made too.

Read about my own mosaic table here:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2011/11/my-mosaic-table.html

Sculpture in the window

The sculpture you see here is of course made by my late mother Gunvor. Now it is watching out from the window - normally during summer it's moved outside. Love to have sculptures in my garden.

But this year it was so rainy and cold that se, the woman sculptured in ceramic, that she remained inside. Looking out to the garden. :)

Having fun- or?

This is what you can find if you really look around. These mannequins where in a small street of Kamala beach in Phuket in Thailand.

Can't say what they represent, if anything. Probably it was one that like to laugh - or to make others just have fun and enjoy life!

Fruits to pick

Now it is time to pick all the fruits we have here in the garden, and there is a lot of them.

As you can see here above - this is my plums. Good for making chutney and marmelade.

And here you have som lovely organic apples, from my garden. Not so big but very tasty. I use them for apple pies and for apple juice.

In the forrest

Just another day in the forrest, here is a pic of the small forrest near my house. I have many more and bigger one to, but I am a bit afraid to get lost in them.

It is very beautiful inside, and quiet. And you can pick all the berries you want, like the rose hips you can see down in the left, it is free for everyone here in Sweden, it's called Allemansrätt.

More to read about rose hips:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/09/picking-some-rose-hips.html

My mother as a child

My mother Gunvor made this lovely sculpture - as usual in ceramic - of her and her grandparents. She had a photo of the scene and later made this piece.

It is her in the middle, as you could guess, between her grandmother and grandfather. It speaks volume of the situation, and I really love it. Have it in my livingroom.

Eating on the beach

One thing I always do when in Thailand is eating on the beach. The restaurants there are anything but elegant, but the food they serve, normally, is exellent. And at a good price.

Then you get the beautiful view for free, looking out at the sea and put your feet in the hot sand.

Here we are sitting on Kamala beach in Phuket. Eating some Pad Thai. You can see the meny here in the photo above.

You also get a pic of me sitting there, and enyoying life and my lunch at Kamala beach.

Picking some rose hips

As I been writing about roses and rose hips before her on my blog, now it is time to pick them, and write about it. The red berries are full of vitamins and lot of other good stuff.

The once so beautiful wild roses have now become Rose hips, and they are so good to use for a soup, we call it Nyponsoppa.

I cook the berries in some water until they become really soft and mushy. Then I sieves the hips and use what is left. I add some sugar and more water with what is left and cook it some more, I add some potato flour to get a thicker soup. You could serve it cold or hot.

Se the roses here in an earlier blogspot:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/07/wild-roses.html

Seafood festival at Jungceylon

I have written about it before, the big shopping centre of Jungceylon in Patong on Phuket. Complte with a ship - Jung Ceylon -  and all, as you can see in the picture here.

Here you really can find everyting, part from the more turisty stuff placed downstairs among a lot of thai massage parlours, you find hipp clothes, bags and shoes, nice things for your home and a lot more.

But you can also eat so many different things, at a lot of restaurants. When I was here they had a seafood festival and it was amazing!

Another blog entry about Jungceylon here›
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/09/going-for-ice-cream-in-thailand.html

More about fast food Thai style her:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/09/fast-food-thai-style.html

Seedy bars and unspoilt beaches

As you may have noticed here on my blog, I really love Thailand and the very touristy place of Phuket, a big island in the south of the country.

But Phuket has so many things to offer. If you go to the biggest turist town in Phuket, Patong. You can find exclusive restaurants, big modern shopping centres and then of course the seedy bars. Like the one on the picture.

But you also have really unspoilt beaches, wuth really no one there. This one is close to the popular Kamala. Not got for a swim maybe, but it is beautiful no less, and it is low tide in the pic.

Plowing the field

Her is the same field that you have seen earlier, but now after the harvest and after the farmer has plowed the field.

I think it's really beautiful with the shining earth that's have been turned up in the sunlight.

And here you have two wild deer on the run, you see them in the background.

Going for ice cream in Thailand

In the US you have a lot them, fast food restaurants of the chain Dairy Queen. But when I was in Thailand they only went for ice cream and sweeter delas, not really hamburgers and that kind of stuff.

Here is one shop into the big shopping mall Jungceylon, in Patong on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand.

And another photo of the mall, it is so big that you just don't have time to se all shops in one week.

My books - so far

Here they are - all the books I have written and published so far. Just wainting for two more any day now.

Mostly funny stories and home made comic strips in Dassboken - for men - and in Damrummet - for women. And then my first novel Aldrig mera ensam.

Kamala beach and a birthday cake

Just another photo of Kamala Beach, and you can see my hotel Cape Sienna in the right corner, up on the hill.

And for my friends birthday - she got a lovely birthday cake delivered to the door - without us knowing about it. They must have read it in her passport.

That is service and style, the hotel Cape Sienna way. No wonder we loved our stay there in Kamala beach in Phuket. And cake was lovely, chocolate mousse, mmm.

More from Cape Sienna hotel

Just can not get enough of this hotel, this was the second time around, and it will be more. Here is one photo of the stylish lobby.

All the rooms - and the lobby - has a wounderful view over Kamala bay and the sandy beach.

And here is one more photo of the pool area of Cape Sienna hotel. Where I was getting a nice sun tan, and swam 200 meters before breakfast.

After the harvest

Now it is time to harvest all the crops what was sown earlier this year here in Sweden.

This is an combine harvester in one of the fields. Here they have cultivated, among other crops, Rapeseed oil or Colza oil, as I wrote about earlier. You can read my earlier blog entry here:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/08/yellow-fields.html

And here you have some moore of the sheep grazing here. Sweet ones, and they don't get cold either...

Read another blogpost here about the fields:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/09/plowing-field.html

Fast food Thai style

This is what you can call fast food Thay style, for a quick bite on the go and for almost no money at all you can get a delicious meal on the street in Thailand.

These two are from Kamala Beach in Phuket. The first one is outside the big scholl along the beach, and probably made fast food mostly for the pupils and their parents.

The other one is also from Kamala, but from the main road and mostly for the people that works around there. They also grill a la minute, as you can see.

What I found in the grass...

Here is what I found in on a walk last week, an old wheelbarrow hidden in the grass.

And here is a rusty old milk can, just close to the wheelbarrow. I still remember them in use, when I was a kid here in the country.

Nice old things, and soon the nature has taken them all over.  Next year they probably will be completely hidden by grass.

Dark Clouds over Kamala

It is not always good sunny weather in Thailand. Especially when you visit Phuket during the rainy season - as I did.

But these clouds are very beautiful anyhow. A view over the Andaman sea from my hotel.

And here is more water from Thailand, a art concept with a water mirror.

On the beach

This is another photo of Kamala beach in Phuket Thailand, when I am eating a nice. cheap lunch with my feet rooted in the sand. That's the way to go!

You can clearly see the difference from ebb and flow on Kamala beach. The boats are one the sand here, later they will float on water.

At hotel Cape Sienna

This was the second time at posh hotel Cape Sienna in Kamala Beach in Phuket, Thailand. And it will not be the last.

It is not only a very stylish and beautiful hotel, it's also a very charming and relaxing place.

These two photos is from the pool, one at a sunna day another one at a more gray and rainy day. But it does not really matter. Love to stay there anyhow.

Red house in the green

I don't know what these big plants are called, but they shure cover up the whole house in the pictures.

It is always sad to see a ruin of a house, but in some way it's also very beautiful. The green plants that has taken over the red house.

On this photo they almost going inside the door.

Fried dumplings

Love to eat good food. This time I have been to Fuji, a Japanese restuarant in Jung Ceylon, the big shopping center in Patong.

As you can see one of the dishes I ate was fried dumplings. And yes, they vere delicious!

And some shopping

You can't go to Thailand without do some serious shopping. There is a lot of "turisty" stuff that I personally don't like but there is also a lof good items that you could get for a good prize, if you haggle a bit first.

Here is some bikinis - often very small in sizes, but ok in quality, at least for the prize.

Ande here is something else that you can find everywhere, sunglasses of all shapes and forms.