During the summer holiday, at the end of April 2003, my girlfriend, Richard and I went to Phetchaburi Province. We stopped to visit the famous summer palace of His Majesty King Vajiravudh, Rama VI. It is the Summer Palace that is located by the sea in Cha-Am district. This huge palace was built of golden teak and thousands of concrete pillars.

I rented my pregnant girlfriend a bicycle because I knew that she wouldn't be up to walking around this huge palace. My girlfriend went ahead to have a ride while Richard and I were walking and taking some pictures of the palace. We went up to the second floor and walked around looking in the rooms. It is all open so it is easy to see the inside of every room. We walked down the long open corridors to the pavilion on the beach and rested there. The view from the pavilion was so beautiful and also pretty windy there. We didn't want to get up and leave. It was so nice to rest there and look out to the sea and beach for a beautiful view. I also went down on the beach with my girlfriend to collect some lovely shells.

After we left the palace, I kept dreaming about having a holiday house on the beach like the palace for my own family! What a ridiculous dream I thought of.