A weekend in Petchburi

It's always nice to be able to get away from the bustling and polluted city of Bangkok for a short trip to somewhere more pleasant and quiet. The opportunity presented itself last weekend as Silver Bullet's department organized an outing where the staffs were encouraged to bring along family members. It was essentially just a one night stay-over at Chez Nous Boutique Resort, located along Chaosamran Beach at Petchburi, just about 2 hours drive away from Bangkok.

Getting there was a nightmare, though. The road leading to Petchburi province is a a total chaos and a mess. I wasn't even the driver, yet I felt like I was hit by succession of heart attacks as many a pedestrian just popped up along the barricades of the highway and trying to cross over 4 lanes of road as vehicles were travelling at high speed! Add that to maniacal, inconsiderate Schumacher -wannabe drivers. Sheer madness! These people are just suicidal.

It was, otherwise a nice, quiet and fuss-free resort to chill at. It wasn't much of an outing per se, as I do think that the main excuse for the "outing" was nothing, but to eat. Lunch and dinner were the only activity we had as a group. At lunch, there were already talking about where they'd be having dinner! I gotta to admit though that the seafood was really fresh.

We now can add one more location that's not too far away from Bangkok to our list. Something which we would not have been aware of, if not for this outing. We'd definitely consider the Che Nous Resort again for a short retreat.


View of the main fountain and our room


The pool and view of the sea



Fresh all-seafood lunch at a nearby restaurant with its resident cat and mynah




Scenery taken from a moving car on the way out of the resort towards home