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I lived in this town for 8 years when I worked in the gemstone industry. Chanthaburi has one of the largest gemstone markets in the world, so the town has an international business presence, yet very few tourists visit here. The language barrier is a burden, but people are more 'down to earth'. One welcome new addition since my last visit is Central Mall. There's a beer garden with live music, I'm going there tomorrow to see Pixxie, will post an update, other nights I hang out at the Koff House. Despite few farang living here, you'll see Santa and Christmas trees

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for stopping by, and welcome to another gander at all things Pattaya. As the renowned philosopher Steven Tyler once said, “Nothing exceeds like excess.” On with the show. Well, the spiffy new 3D sign at the entrance to Walking Street is finally up and running and tourists can be seen admiring it as they pass by on their way to somewhere else. One tourist remarked “It makes you feel like you’re in a world-class tourist resort – as long as you don’t look anywhere else.” A restaurant owner on Walking Street has been fined for dumping his waste i

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

I attended this event two years ago and never posted these until now.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to a cool yule, and welcome to the Christmas edition of Monkeywatch – which is the same as all the others. Humbug. Walking Street seems to be something of a talking point at the moment as city leaders wrestle with the street’s rapid decline in popularity with international tourists who now refer to it using names like Little India, Mumbai Village and George Foreman – oh sorry, that should be Mohammed Alley. Mind you, there are other points of contention too, like rip-off prices for drinks and ladies, and touts selling tickets to ping-pong shows that

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Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap once again, and welcome to this month’s delve into our bag of unsavoury snacks. Police were called to a massage shop after a Chinese quality tourist refused to stop filming inside the premises. It turned out that the little bugger wasn’t even a customer. The police removed the man after the staff had given him a free lower intestine massage with a toilet brush. A Pattaya hotel has apparently distributed 800 survival kits to less well-off residents of the city. So what’s a survival kit then? An ounce of weed and a six-pack? There was an ar

Cherry Bar - 20th Year Anniversary Party - 8th August (Soi Diana). This Friday marks the 20th Year Anniversary of the Cherry Bar. Seven years on Soi 8 and now Thirteen 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.

I’m always amazed at the new places I get to with the wife around Pattaya usually connected to food places. Today it was the Hidden beach in Na Kluea and was nice to see Pattaya and Koh Lan from another angle or direction. Only been here 10 years and still discovering the place or as I get older my interests are diversifying 😊

Yesterday afternoon I took a ride on the white baht bus along Sukhumvit to Geko Cafe. The cafe is unusual with telephones on the wall as decoration, however there is a semi undercover parking area where a number of classic cars are kept. Lighting in the parking area was not good for photography but the vehicles were interesting. I enjoyed by Danish Pastries and Coffee and the cost was only 120 baht.

I've been in town the last couple days Too early in the day for Soi 6 Always enjoy Patrick's Pig roast on LK Metro ..onto Walking Street

A few days ago I received a friend request on FB from a young attractive woman about 28 years old... I was curious. I wanted to know why someone that young wanted to be my fb friend. So I accepted it. Then she started sending me private messages. She was very kind. She called me handsome . She asked my age. I'm not a liar so I told her and reminded her I'm quite a bit her senior. And I let her talk a bit cos (truth be told) flattery ain't all that bad. We kept talking for a while and within a short time, she asked if we could talk about 'adult things'. I said ok. Then she replied wit

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to the height of summer, and to the floods that come with it these days. You’ll probably get better weather at home. The latest establishment in Pattaya to burn to the ground is Catflaps in Pratumnak, which met its demise due to “a faulty bug zapper.” When police visited the premises belonging to the vendor of the offending item, they were told “It wasn’t faulty. It killed all the bugs, didn’t it?” A small group of Koreans had an expensive night out in a Naklua restaurant when they were presented with a bill for 100,000 baht. This may seem a l

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for tagging along, and welcome to Pattaya as it begins its celebration of the Year of the Stinking Pig. No wonder the Chinese all left. Well, a new law passed by the Thai government at the end of last month means that in certain areas we can now buy alcohol 24 hours a day. All we need now is somewhere that’s open 24 hours a day so we can buy it. Investigations are under way after parts of Sukhumvit Road were plunged into darkness following the theft of street light control cables. A local spokesman said “We take a very dim view of this sort

Greetings Monkeywatchers, and showaddy crap to more midsummer madness in the City of Stinking Pigs. We don’t try to curry favour here. Well, in the case of Thailand, it looks like tourism from the yellow peril has been well and truly flushed down the crapper. A tourism representative said it was like watching an empire vanish. Others might say it was more like watching a carbuncle vanish. Trouble is, it may be replaced by something even more ghastly. A Pattaya woman is facing criminal charges after she faked a robbery to explain why all her farang boyfriend’s money had gone missing.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for paying us a visit, and welcome to this month’s delve into dark deeds and debauchery. Or not. Well, we just have to kick off with the news that Thai religious bar closure days have been scrapped in entertainment areas. Great news, unless you’re visiting a restaurant or visiting anywhere at all if there’s an election on. They just can’t let it go, can they? Or maybe they can, as the government is now considering including restaurants in this new law as well. Just don’t hold your breath (unless you’re standing within 10 feet of a “quality tourist.

Pattaya - Yes International - Several falang competitors so, arguably, yes Bikini - Not for all competitors (thankfully!) Beach - Yes Race - Yes, theoretically, but not for many of the participants! I stood on the beach opposite Klang. The race was supposed to start at 5:30pm from outside of Central Pattaya (formerly known as Central Festival) but didn't until about 5:50pm. I wonder if they were waiting for the sun to fall below the horizon so as not to shine directly into the lenses of the professional photographers who had set up to do their work. A bunch of people started

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for joining us, and welcome to the month of Loy Krathong, or whatever else floats your boat. Looking at the state of some of the young blokes wandering around Pattaya, you have to wonder if their hairdressers and their tailors are competing with each other for some kind of comedy award. A Pakistani DJ working in Pattaya was given a right good kicking by a group of food delivery riders on South Pattaya Road who accused him of causing trouble. Anyone who’s heard Pakistani music would no doubt say “guilty as charged.” A Ukrainian chappie is

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If anyone likes classic cars I went to V8 Fastlane yesterday opposite Genesis Darksiders and they have some really nice cars and Bikes on show. Not too mention they do a mean Burger plus other food. Well worth a trip out to Maprachan if you like these kind of things.

What may be the last morning walk for some months.

A few pics from around town. Starting off with Soi Casino (between Soi Buakhao and Soi 15). The construction of the houses has moved along, and I hope the road will be properly laid before the project is finished. The shed at the back of The Avenue on Soi 15 appears to be having proper drainage put in, so what's it going to be? The Beach Road entrance to Royal Garden Mall now includes a lift to take you all the way to the roof. The building between Soi 6 and Runway Market is near complete, and has been painted a sickly shade of red. It looks to

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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.

The morning walk.

The Sawang Boriboon Foundation is a well-known non-profit organization in Pattaya that provides emergency rescue services, including marine incidents.

Another source for good quality, 100% cotton polo shirts is Littel Embroidery. They have a good selection of sizes and colors to choose from. We've been using them for years for Hash House Harrier award shirts. Cost with embroidery is 350B, so shirt only I would expect to pay around 300B. Map Link

I realize I was misleading about health insurance. I retired from the Federal Government so have a generous heath insurance benefit. It has been criticized in the past as unfair compared to those that rely on Medicare or other private insurance. I think true but its the same BCBS that members of Congress have even when they are out of office. So you can see where any attacks on that perk are going. As to the women , while I'm no Gabor ,Expat cost are radically different from even LT visitors. No Walking Street but also no Beach road. But with my relationship with the wife those times

Wow, business must be bad if Indian tailors have taken to spamming Pattaya forums!!!

Arrived yesterday afternoon. Took a walk this morning. Some new shops opening at the bottom of Naklua Road, near Terminal 21. Good to have an almost clear view along the beach towards Bali High. One of the new electric baht buses and a massage lady who wanted to pose for me.

https://tdac.immigration.go.th/arrival-card/#/home Has to be done 3 days before arrival. Not sure how long before that it can be completed.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to one and all, and welcome to another look at what’s through the keyhole in the city of silly grins. Let’s go for it. Pattaya’s new mobile health service got off to a bit of a bad start when their van ran over several of the people who were queuing for a health check. Nevertheless, they were given a comprehensive medical before being shipped off to hospital to have their injuries treated. As their motto says, “Improving the quality of life for Pattaya residents.” A German tourist was injured on Pattaya Beach when a motorcycle taxi driver knock

Rehearsals on the beach this afternoon:

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

Terminal 21, this afternoon.

Walking along Soi 6.