jacko

Excellent information and looks fantastic, sadly I do not have an oven! Be careful, I think this guy is talking degrees Fahrenheit! It would be a waste to turn a nice slab of rib-eye into a cinder-block.

Haha, yes I did Tarom once too, what crap! A lot of fun sitting under armed guard in transit in Bucharest. Not as bad as your experience though! Biman, I recall seeing them listed in Kuwait as I waited, I thought their full name was Biman delayed 7 hours.

That singer guy.... Adam Faith

I guess the dental work has been completed, I hope that went well. Does the Mrs not eat that Thai shrimp dish where it is raw? ( I forget the name)? There are many where it is simply pickled too.

Interesting thoughts on Gulf Butch, I used them a lot when I was working in the Middle East. At that time it was as if they were running a bus service and we often joked how we had visited Muscat, Bahrain, Doha, back to Muscat because some Sheik had called them up and eventually to Dammam! I recall that the seats in economy were small, they were good in business class, and generally good in the air, but on the ground they were terrible Boarding always seemed chaotic. Your Missus may be recalling a past incident where a very inexperienced Gulf Air pilot (local) was attempting to land in Manama and making a pigs ear of it and ultimately crashed. That sure worried me thinking they got some really inexperienced pilots, prior to that the pilot was rarely from the Gulf, many were from Europe, particularly Eastern Europe. I think a lot of Qatar, but I couldn't get a price I liked in Biz Class this year so I am off home via Helsinki this month, trying one of those new A350s.

Always seemed a dubious place for yet another mall, Traffic currently reduced due to the tunnel construction. If they are trying to reproduce the mayhem around the Pattaya Tai Tuk-Com which already keeps me away what a strange idea. I hear this Mall is aimed at kids, including an ice-rink. There is a Harbor Mall in Laem Chabang which is much easier for me to get to. Hopefully there will be some improvement in parking and vehicular access. At the moment I can see it stopping what is already slow Klang traffic, in both directions.

If you feel a need to negotiate, perhaps before getting to the room would be better?

I seemed to get the same impression mostly, except when I stayed at The Nova Park or Residence Garden and they noticed the separate living area and bedroom.

I am surprised you are surprised Atlas, but a good tale anyhow. In my cul-de-sac we used to have a severely disabled guy come around scavenging, pushing a hand cart painfully slowly around the village. I have seen him looking quite pleased with himself when he managed to push said cart down the road containing a refrigerator more than a few times bigger than the cart. Of course many a fridge can be quickly repaired, a simple leak to seal. But even if not, plenty of scrap and recycling value in there. I wonder what has happened to the disabled scavenger, not having him annoy me by stealing all my black bin-bags and tipping the smelly rubbish back into the bin so that the garbage guys refuse the refuse! Perhaps he is further unwell, the heat makes the job too much for him, but I bet that since a certain alcoholic no longer resides in the street, bin-scavenging here is not worth the slight incline.

The on-line menu simply says 'stuffing' which suggests the most common 'sage and onion' is likely used as Fayboyfat says. My mother made such stuffing using the chicken giblets and it never came with roast beef. It is simply breadcrumbs, onion, butter, egg, sage. I have never had a Yorkshire pudding served 'on-it's-own', but a few UK restaurants have served them separate from the main. They are usually large ones and come with a rich gravy. As a frugal Yorkshire man may tell you, it is an attempt to fill you up before the expensive meat is offered!

Caligula

Glad to see a positive review...... For me Yorkshire pudding was always an accompaniment for roast beef rather than lamb. Yours appears to be a stuffed one which I like the sound of.

Already used with Lauren Bacall........ Here is one with plenty of choice..... Murder on the Orient Express

And that gentlemen is how a thread goes somewhat off-track!

I am old and drink, I gotta go pee!

I am sorry to say you may have been given a wrong impression of romantic beaches by a travel brochure. Firstly candles and flowers are easily found..... The Beach adjacent to Pattaya Beach Rd I would say is not really suitable..... You have already booked your hotel, which is a shame, may we ask which hotel? A hotel like The Dusit (perhaps Sheraton) or Cosy Beach (Rabbit resort) would probably help you but some of these are 5 star.

Or enough money perhaps! Sometimes people prefer to pay more to get better facilities or security. There is often quite a gap between a 3 star where you fight for breakfast with the Chinese and have Nigerians climbing into your room to the 5 star that turns down your bed for the evening. In Pattaya and Bangkok that high end is more reasonable, in London or New York, prohibitive.

Xanadu

Only if it has those little sausages in there!

Yes I think you are correct. I was looking for Biz fares the other way BKK-Man and had quite a few that attracted me booking 3 months in advance, I had set a target price that I thought would become possible what with the competition on the route and better oil prices. Never quite got there and I kept leaving it. Then something happened in the UK had me thinking I may need to do an immediate trip...... so I waited to see how that turned out. It ended up being a non-issue and I was back in the market looking for a Biz Class but now only about 5 weeks in advance. My usual Mid East contenders were all well above 100,000 baht now and I got nervous whether I should grab one before it got worse. Booked me via Helsinki in the end, much cheaper but an unknown quantity, also a daytime flight ex BKK when I prefer overnight.

Grease

Viagra?