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Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap for the last time this year, and welcome to our special Christmas edition – which means it’s the same as all the others. Or maybe even worse. Following the recent weather, it’s been decided that Thailand’s rainy season will in future run from May to April. Perhaps Pattaya should consider a similar extension to its low season. A motorbike thief was arrested by police near Pattaya after he fell off a roof. How the hell did he get the bike up there? An Australian bloke is in police custody in Pattaya after what was described as a bizarre ra

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for following us into the New Year, and welcome to more tales of Pattaya, the city that never sleeps – it just passes out. Stories abound that Walking Street is changing and the traditional go go bars are being replaced by luxury establishments for party groups. One report remarked that there are now seven or eight Indian clubs and none of them for Cheap Charlies. Well that would explain why they all close down after a couple of months. Concerns have been raised in some quarters about baht buses overcharging foreigners. This is true to an ext

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to yet another month, and welcome to another fertile crop of futile crap. Let’s dig in. A Thai family were injured after a pickup truck landed on top of their vehicle after falling from a bridge that was still under construction. A spokesman for the building company responsible said “With the benefit of hindsight, it might have been prudent to finish building the bridge before reopening the road.” Experts, you gotta love ‘em. Following the arrest of an Indian tourist for groping a woman on Beach Road, police have decided to charge him with the

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for your valued patronage, and welcome to another stream of unconsciousness. Let’s go with the flow. Within the space of a few days, two South Korean tourists were found drowned off the coast of Koh Larn. No doubt the Chinese will be accusing them of cultural appropriation, having had something of a monopoly on drowning around this location, though in their case it’s usually by the ferry load. If you’re having a bit of trouble getting the old plonker to perform these days, you may be interested to know that a Thai clinic can now offer to fit y

May 2024 Udon Thani is located in northeastern Thailand (Isaan), not far from the border with Laos. You can fly there; from Bangkok, it takes about an hour. The city is best known for the American airbase located there during the Vietnam War. Today, many expatriates still live there. Udon Thani's central nightlife area is located in and around Soi Samphan Thamit. Day & Night is a beer bar complex in Soi Samphan Thamit. Central Plaza is a big shopping center – close to the night life area. The train station is also wi

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to another month, and welcome to a sneaky peak at the latest high jinks in the City of Smut. Brace yourselves. The Pattaya Waterworks Department has declared that there won’t be a water shortage in Pattaya this year. Those of us who’ve spent many an hour walking through Pattaya’s entertainment areas up to our waists in water probably won’t have too much difficulty believing this. An instructor at a municipal fire station shot one of his recruits the other week after what was described as a “heated argument.” Unfortunately, the other recruits as

Soi Boomerang Soi 6 – Midday When did the name change from Central Festival to … Ganesha Shine at Soi Buakhao. Everything around it changes but the shine still stands. The biggest 7-Eleven in Thailand is at South Pattaya Road Pattaya SkyTrain 😁 - Pattaya Waterpark

Got the drone out for an overhead view of the Countdown 2025 stage this morning.

The one in front of North point did a good business, Never really understood since I would leave my bag at reception and back the next day 300 baht. My wife was pushing for me to put some coin machines on our front patio, said they are profitable. Told her no I didn't want people hanging around. Told her If she wanted a business then setup a small bar on the patio with girls in Bikinis. She told me no she didn't want people hanging around.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for popping in, and welcome to another dive into the murky waters of Pattaya, metaphorically speaking. And literally speaking, come to think of it. Pattaya has been hit by flash floods yet again and it’s reported that traffic officers have been assigned to deal with the situation. Presumably when there’s gridlock on the roads the weathermen will be sent in. Police are investigating after a Pattaya mother reported that a gang of youths had assaulted her son with fireworks. It seems that the gang didn’t have a bottle to fire their rockets fro

I also took pictures of Huai Chak Nok Reservoir in case I crashed and destroyed the drone. A new water park got built on the southeast side of the lake since I was last out there.

Over time, I have taken quite a few photos of the Ganesha shrine on Soi Buakhao. They show that the surroundings have changed. But the shrine is still there, and it will likely remain for many years to come.

From last night, a few snaps of the night time action around the mookata, food and market places next to Nirun. And around the corner the GC's Sign shop on 3rd Rd

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap for taking a gander, and welcome to another sneaky peek at what’s transpired, inspired and expired in the last month. Chocks away. The Thai Navy are to create something they call an ‘underwater learning park’ by sinking some of their old ships. They should take some advice from the Koh Larn ferry as they’ve managed to sink more boats than just about anybody else. Experts have advised that the chances of another coup in Thailand are very slim, though if you had the gun barrel of a tank sticking through your front window you’d probably come to

The beach has taken quite a hammering over the last 48 - 72 hours. Teams were out working this morning.

An article in The Pattaya News back in April said: "The Bay Pattaya, a beachfront project located on Soi 5-6 along Beach Road, is set to undergo a significant makeover to become a 24/7 entertainment and shopping complex." (https://thepattayanews.com/2024/04/18/the-bay-pattaya-to-transform-into-24-7-entertainment-shopping-complex/) There are certainly changes going on there. Starbucks has been established there for a long time. Now, on the opposite corner, there is a new restaurant - "Dolce Vita". Immediately to the left of that, another transformation looks to b

A selection from yesterday evening.

This Thursday marks the 19th Year Anniversary of the Cherry Bar. Seven years on Soi 8 and now Twelve years on Soi Diana. Not a bad accomplishment in today's Pattaya climate. There will be free food, shots and lots of fun So if you're in town, please join us to help celebrate this occasion.

On this morning's ride I explored an interesting hidden gem in central Pattaya. It's an undeveloped area off of Pattaya Tai, behind Pattaya City Resort. From the road the new shops going up on Tai look like nothing special. But behind the shops is a nice park area around a small lake. The hidden gem is farther back and on the other side of the lake. There's a dirt road that circles around a large undeveloped area with a lilly filled pond. The area is currently being used to grow various plants. I hope the city sees the value of keeping some green space and that

I have a mate who is flying from the UK to Thailand tomorrow with some other guy (XXX). I have just received this message from him, which I think is worth sharing: "XXX and I had a fun time trying to get our TDACs sorted yesterday. Whether it was using my phone, my PC, XXX's work PC or his private one, we were getting drop-downs that didn't do so, text that we inserted into those fields disappearing, and eventually getting Bad Gateway error messages that even prevented us from getting back into the site. We tried again around 10pm, and it was an absolute breeze, with no issues whatso

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for jumping aboard, and welcome to this month’s mad as a March hare ramblings. Chocks away. The post COVID outbreak of stinking pig in the Walking Street area is reportedly spreading and is now threatening to become a pandemic. Unfortunately no vaccine is available but face masks definitely help. There’s a new craze sweeping teens in Pattaya, namely riding motorbikes round the city and slapping Indians round the head. They don’t seem to bother with farangs, presumably because most of them are slapheads already. An Italian man who wa

Mapprachan at Sunset.

Since I had the drone out this morning, thought it'd be a good opportunity to get some shots of the large construction site on Pattaya Tai up near Sukhumvit.

Merry Christmas to everyone. A selection from my morning walk.

A couple more pics from this morning's rideabout. Soi Casino is still blocked off.

Walking Street gate

That you don't like the humor is a you thing, not a "political" thing. Go patrol a different section if it bothers you that much...

One of the new electric Baht buses, with apologies if already posted:

Pedestrian Crossing re-painting and road works at the Walking Street end of Beach Road. Google Translation.

I do like a walk around Na Kluea seafood market another place that is quite busy but mainly Thais and Chinese in there. The assortment of seafood is very good.

The Sanctuary of Truth.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to the summer hols, and welcome to more midsummer madness in the land that time didn’t forget. Game on. Onlookers watched in amazement when a Japanese chap rammed his car into the front of a Pattaya go go bar a couple of weeks ago. Now we know that some people like to park near to their destination to avoid walking, but this guy is just plain lazy. An allegedly distraught young Israeli who went missing has been found alive and well in a forest in East Pattaya. When asked by the rescue team why he was so upset, the young Jewish lad replied “I’v

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for dropping in, and welcome to another peek at the city of scaremongering without the scare. Let’s rock. Well the ever popular sport of balcony diving has gone into international overdrive in Pattaya with no less than four incidents occurring in the first week of the month. The first one to plummet was a Thai, followed by a Russian, an American and a German, who set a new record with a drop of 33 floors from a 5 star hotel. Well at least they seem to be getting a better class of jumper. And if that wasn’t enough, there’s now been a fifth and

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to you all, and welcome to another through-the-keyhole peek at the latest strange behaviour in Smog City. A Russian chap sitting on a motorcycle on Beach Road was surprised when a woman approached his bike and pulled him off. Don’t know why he was surprised. Perhaps she didn’t charge him. Here’s a strange one. A Chinese tourist was stabbed near the entrance to Walking Street after an argument broke out with a man who’d walked up to him and asked him how big his dick was. Not sure that ‘big’ was the right word to use if the rumours about the

The old gate had much more charm then the new one.

Finished the process of renewing my five year license today. Here's the steps I went through from booking an appointment to receiving my new licenses, car and motorbike. Appointment Booking It's strange the Bang Lamung DLT office, one of the busiest, still uses a spiral notebook and pen for booking appointments. But as they're not on the online DLT Smart Queue yet, you have to drive out to the office (map link) and make your appointment in person. From central Pattaya it's about 40 min RT to spend five minutes to book an appointment. In my case the appointment was for one week late

A new feature has recently appeared on Photoshop Beta called 'find distractions.' Essentially with one click of the mouse one can remove wires and cables from a photograph as I have done above. Similarly one is also able to remove people other than the subject of the photograph from the image with one click.

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