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The dark Knight had Michael Caine in it.

Gary Oldman

Jean Reno

Vanessa Redgrave

Richard Gere.

Mathilda May

Nope....

I drive on that road now and again and you normally get the police out and about further North. Is that the area where it feels like you are in a dodgems car as the surface has been churned up by HGV traffic? I don't drive as fast as 140 here but exceed the 90 limit when I can, surprised I haven't had more tickets as I thought the limit was 120 kph! Things are actually getting better if they are stopping and fining people who really are speeding, it used to be fantasy infringements!

Who, can't see anybody!

Very good material this month, enjoyed it.

At 64, sudden acceleration can be risky! But I seriously couldn't get across for a good while, it was a steady stream. I suppose I could have walked back to the Klang junction and got across there but I didn't want to go that way.

I always thought Chang tasted great, but the feeling isn't reciprocated. Six big bottles had me up-chucking once, and a return event ended similarly. I threw in the towel well beaten!

While I am having a moan and feeling grumpy, the other pocket liner, those pedestrian crossings dotted all over town, have become completely useless (or perhaps worse, a risk to life and limb if you are daft enough to try and cross by them), Took me ages to get across 2nd Rd yesterday and this is low-low season!

The cheap cafe inside, the one that doesn't require you to buy pre-paid tickets, did great fried duck with basil leaf and some other duck dishes. The other place I liked for the duck curry was Fra Pattaya on Tai. Last night I was going to go to the bar on the 2nd Rd, which is close to where the baht buses all stop and ask whether they had been given their marching orders, but I got distracted by nudity and it was closed when I got there and I had to stagger back to Paddy's Bar. I wonder if that row of shops on 2nd Rd will also be demolished.

I was riding down Jomtiem front Monday, wondering why all this work was going on there. Jomtiem Beach Rd was fine as it was, and should have been left alone. Then it clicked, the inferior promenade construction in Pattaya, which needs to be repaired every year and have holes fixed frequently, generates a lot of money for people. Jomtiem, with a well constructed Beach frontage was failing to be productive! (Actually I am betting the road will be widened so that those annoying night/event markets can be staged there).

Slight aside someone has actually filled the potholes on soi Chayaphun so the slow ride down may be easier on the teeth. Mind you loose aggregate has been used so it won't last.

Sorry, I actually meant the Pook Bar.

There will be some moaning and groaning around Soi Bhua khao .........

Wasn't it scheduled to become another big new Mall a while back? Obviously the car park and the small shops near it (MPs, and the ancient Cool House restaurant) must also be going. I must admit I haven't been going there for ages but often stocked up my minibar from there when a tourist.

Chinatown.

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