Recon Koh Nin Beach Hotels

This morning we got ourselves a scooter with me determined to visit the Muay Thai gym. It is off the main road by about a km, a nice rural type setting. Hey it's Thailand, a guys gotta see the Muay Thai, let some of my testosterone run wild.
After seeing the gym we headed back as the deadline to return the scooter was 10:30 AM.
W spent the better part of the rest of the day at the beach, reading, sunning, dipping and repeat as needed. It was a lazy day so for the evening I had this brain storm the we should walk to the German Bakery we had heard so much about, for a treat. Off we went, me oblivious to the ensuing darkness, especially the stretches of the road without lighting, and Marie grumbling along the way. After several kilometres it struck me that this was probably one of those exercises of futility so when a Tuk Tuk driven by a Muslim Lady came by and turned to follow us, asking if we need a taxi I buckled, much to Marie's delight, and negotiated a ride to the bakery and back to our hotel. No, I am not a tyrant forcing by beautiful wife to walk along dark roads! We actually agreed to an evening walk before dinner, it just was more than expected and a lot darker.
Our Muslim lady obviously was sent by our guardian angel as the bakery was a lot further, probably 6 kilometres further, than we had anticipated from the info we got from some other tourists. The final insult being that the bakery was CLOSED! Our saviour took us back to our hotel, me very humble the entire way.
We stopped into a restaurant just before the hotel. We actually were in this for lunch. It has only been open for 17 days, opened by a Swiss man and his Thai wife. Previously they were in Chang Mai, but after two consecutive seasons of floods they decided to move south. At lunch we were treated to several samples of exotic fruit we had never experienced as well as interesting Thai appetizers. At supper after another excellent meal our hostess showed decorative carving of fruit for a great presentation. She told us the fruit art was part of her food studies, nutritional food, at the university. She was extremely friendly and with our interest eager to show some of the tricks of her trade. She offers cooking classes so perhaps it was a way of peaking our interest. Nonetheless it was fun. We sampled "Sapa" the red spiky fruit, rice with red grape left to ferment for three days, and the carved up pineapple. Also a tapioca and bean paste in banana leaf. All very unique and tasty.
A sign at the hotel pretty much explains ownership of these businesses is 51% for the Thai women and only 49% for their foreign spouses.