Blue toes excitements!

Hello, how are you doing? It's been another great week here in Thailand.

           'I have found that if you love life, life will love you back'.

Arthur Rubinstein

Sixteen weeks ago I painted my toenails turquoise blue and life's been good ever since. Who knew such a simple change could make all the difference?

Pull up a chair and I'll tell you all about it!

I've always had pink toes, maybe coral, and very occasionally, I've worn red nail polish at Christmas. My blue toes are my sign to myself to get out there, to have fun and do something different.

I mean let's face it unless something's gone drastically wrong in the day, 

you've always got your feet with you, haven't you? 

In Thailand, we never wear socks, so I have a secret, constant reminder to:

Do it different, stay out of the ordinary!

I thought I'd made this up myself, but The Beauty Gypsy writes: 

Forget any tranquil associations – when worn as nail polish, blue is not for the faint of heart. It’s fun and experimental, giving the impression that you live an adrenaline-filled lifestyle full of constant excitement. In short, blue nail polish tells the world that you are youthful, fun and willing to try new things.

I'm laughing so hard at this 'living an adrenaline-filled lifestyle full of constant excitement'...Because if I'd known that was likely I'd have stuck with my baby pink toes, but it's too late now :)

I first went with blue toes when I was hoping to get in touch with my inner Rock Chick, as a volunteer at Glastonbury Festival. So maybe...

The nail polish did me good, we ended up in a heatwave and a festival-wide water ban. I learned many things about myself that week, including that blue toes still look ok after a week without a shower!

Last week, I was asked to join a product test for a new motorised e-scooter tour in Bangkok. If you've ever seen Bangkok's congested roads this had the potential to be adrenaline-filled, but actually, we were scootering down little laneways in local communities and were perfectly safe.

This week I've been in the ancient city of Ayutthaya and was thoughtfully given a traditional skirt to wear. It was absolutely beautiful and full of little elephants. 

This was a lovely gesture, except that whilst a wrap-around skirt sits well on a Thai lady and wraps around snugly. Mine only stretches to a one and a half wraps, the potential for disgracing myself is immense.

Don't smirk!

Here I am on this week's excitements. I somehow found myself staring in the welcome dance show - no rehearsal, no nothing, straight into the lights, camera, action, sequence!  So here I am with the SaiNoi community in front of the Director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. 

I am invited to the dance floor and as we twirl, I'm shown how to get my hands just right. I am acutely aware that my hand movements needed to involve the ability to rescue my modesty, should I have a wardrobe malfunction!

Doing the 'hands up dance movement' is a tad risky, but I give it a go and live to tell the tale.

Honestly, I keep thinking of the British ex-Prime Minister Theresa May dancing in Africa! 

Note to self - have some Thai Dancing lessons.

We did many interesting activities with the local community thanks to our invitation from Thailand Village Academy. All eyes were downward when we were invited to learn all about traditional foot massage.

Massage is a popular part of Thai life and Thai foot massage is the application of pressure onto particular parts of the feet. 

Traditionally therapists use their hands, fingers, thumbs, knuckles even a rounded wooden stick with oil or balm. This causes a reflex action in another part of the body, as these diagrams show, although these are written in Thai.

We were invited to enjoy a foot massage and learned how the local villagers had invented a reflexology massage tool out of coconut shells. The shells are hard and they give your feet a good work out.

This week wanderings will take me on another out of my comfort zone. A Bangkok Street Food pork Breakfast foodie tour. Oh my gosh, my poor little (ok big) tummy!

I haven't had a chance to take off my blue nail polish yet... these wonderful opportunities are coming straight at me and when I think "no" I'm not doing (or more likely) can't do that, I look at my toes say yes and put one foot in front of another and go and do it!

Are you looking to do something different in your life?

Go and buy yourself some blue polish and see where it leads you! 

Now is good!

I'm starting the blue nail polish revolution in Blogland. Do you fancy painting your toes blue and seeing what happens? It really works! Although don't blame me if you have too much adventure! Let me know how you get on!

Happy Wanderings!

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