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On the above comment, and admitting I wouldn't know the USA well enough to find the best steak in NYC, I actually went through a lot of disappointment wrt steaks when I was in the USA. From NY State, Pa, FL and TX, I had a lot of disappointing ones. Being from the UK, the land of crappy steaks and pathetic salads, I was expecting so much in that respect from the USA. Then, out of the blue I got the great and likely the best one from an Outback restaurant in Kansas City, MO. Oh and a prime rib in NY once.

Yeah, plenty on North Rd, 2 I think as you head out of town. Sukhumvit itself has loads. Some on Threppasit, again heading out. The cheating one where they don't like to zero the meter on the 3rd Rd/Tai junction. There are still the bottles for sale at various points around town if it is just a matter of topping a bike up. I live well out of town and am in the habit of filling up near the house as a routine Monday AM.

Edward Norton.

I kinda thought I did that a bit already, with my dull tales of prepping durian and odd night out. Perhaps my ongoing (6 years and counting) 'battle' with a rather large and noisy tookay lizard I would like to be rid of. I keep catching her partners and moving them on but she is a wily one. Or how I climbed a ladder recently to block off her hidey hole only to get wobbly up there and come back down before I broke my stupid skull. I was walking down the street like a great white hunter yesterday to get rid of a harmless snake I had caught... easy to impress locals as they seem to fear the most innocuous of snakes. Today is Saturday, mostly stay home, BBQ day sometimes, but she did her wonderful ribs yesterday.

They live in my home town! You could be forgiven for mistaking many Greater Manchester areas for Karachi.

That got me salivating!

But then you would never get there.

Scott Glenn

Ethan Hawke

Laurence Fishburne.

You take me back many years to a trip from Abu Dhabi-UK on Tarom, Sitting in a miserable transit place under armed guard in Bucharest! It was cheap though!

Well, there is also a chance of a malicious link being included in an email which appears to come from someone you know. One like that caught me a few years ago. Then I became the apparent sender of 'a malicious link being included in an email which appears to come from someone you know'.

Heat we got!!!!

I recall when checking into a soi 7/8 hotel listening to an Indian guy arguing with reception or cashier about the price being offered to him to extend his stay, complaining it was more than his current price. So he went off to use a computer and came back with a better price...Agoda.

Generally that type of email is put into your spam folder. If you open an email within the spam folder active parts are disabled. (Yahoo Mail). So there is very low risk. Your virus protection should also be ready to jump in.

Well sometimes you have to wait a little longer, and it is bloody hot this time of year. My standard fare is 1200 airport to Pattaya, and this guy is advertising 1000/1200 for 2/3 seats, so is cheaper too. Just reading elsewhere of taxi drivers refusing to use their meter and they have a reputation for being ill-mannered. Also I have had a couple reject a trip to Pattaya (and others dance with glee). Perhaps depends on the time of day you land but I gave up on the taxis after a long wait once. My current guy always drags me to the multi-storey car park but at least takes the baggage cart for me.

Stickman has posted that Private Dancer has had a change of ownership and will have a change of name May 1st.

Well it will be May 3rd here, but I am told it will be on the Thai TV Ch 7 at 10am, for free!

My experience of 'white vans' is not 'only 5 aboard', more 'room for another' Had we not stopped for gas, (literally .. we all had to get out and stand in the heat), I think he might have made it in 20minutes such was the way he drove. Plus I had visions of bursting into flames for the duration of the trip. Considering the near 40 degree heat in Bangkok these days I would pay more for a car.

Yeah, I kinda thought that too. Thaivisa gives Mods a bad name.