jacko

How about looking at Koh Chang?Boats go out from there and I did a particular trip where we motored for about 5 hours before fishing. We were catching a lot of barracuda. Some kobia (good fighter) Trevally . It can be good if you run into a shoal of queen fish or king fish too. Yes the season is upon us about now and maybe big stuff will arrive.... (sailfish). Talk to PSP at Mistys, I recall he posted about getting one. There are boats go out from Bang Saray too and fish around the islands there. I think a boat for the day could be anything from 8000 to the sky is the limit.

Simply saying, peak season, peak prices.

Check your calendar.......

They were giving that lager away at the Sunday Expats Club meet... in rather small samples unless you had one of the club's blue shirts. I posted a thread some months back when this stuff was offered to me at a beer distributors some months back...wisely I took a can out of the fridge and not a case of the stuff. It tasted awful back then. Guys at the club said it tasted OK....... it was priced similar to a case of SML.

What is US LE?

They aren't good enough!

I am wondering if Thailand is the right place to be interfering like that, and whether restaurants appreciate you bullying customers any less than they appreciate customers bullying staff.

Perhaps the RG has been taken over by Russians too!

I seem to recall being on a KLM Combi in that area and am pretty sure it was Biz Class.(Couldn't get my usual upstairs exit row seat) It was a claustrophobic area that seemed devoid of service although handy for the toilets. It looks like KLM have agreed with me and decided it was not worth the cost of Biz Class and created 'Economy Comfort' there.

Sneakers

I disturbed him one day as I was trying to mow and trim under the bushes and he moved around the corner, where he got sprinkled when I watered the garden. Then I saw him no more, fickle these Thai spiders. I must say I am quite pleased to see the back of him and I can refocus on the 250 geckos I have.

Or the fact that it is not originally an Indian dish and is perhaps perceived as a 'farang' item.

There is a realism about the way they look, although I wonder if I would do better seeing them on something other than my computer screen. Although it appears the sun is out the blueness of the sky looks too dark. I also get an impression of the sun as being low in the sky

Well fine if they have it available although you may be having a little tug at my leg here. I am still angered by the way the Nana and Ambassador coffee shops put up the price of a bottle of beer to match the GGBs in the Plaza way back when! Oh for the days when I could grab a beer from the mini bar at a similar cost to Friendship. Now I have to be severely impaired to need one of them there $8 beers!

http://player.vimeo....video/56189674 In the meantime, watch this! Oops Pappy did it already.

Yes of course they do....... but perhaps customers are sometimes a little surprised by how much.

I am sorry, but I don't expect inferior standards purely because I am a visitor. In some other countries I would find superior service than at 'home'... but if it is a business, in the service industry, a certain level and standard is expected and must be maintained. I shouldn't have to be giving staff a break or cutting them some slack, beyond perhaps language difficulties and unforeseen problems.I don't mean the PBG by this but some establishments in Thailand are absolutely hopeless.

I would often like to see the drinks menu when a 'lunch special' is offered. Sure, 380 nett for a buffet at a 5 star hotel sounds like a good deal..... but I was at a neighbouring hotel and had 2 beers with the food and that was about 380 nett too. Now I have spent 760 baht and am dithering over the fact I could 'go another'.....

Well £49 is a LOT more than £12...... and you know one of those courses will be the bread roll! I did look up Wetherspoons and it was a very reasonable £7.25 including drink though. A turkey isn't so common here and a bit of a treat.....they are bargain basement in the UK this time of year. And there are many more diversions around the DD than in a cold and dreary UK town centre on a Christmas day, where you will be charged triple taxi fare by a surly driver from Pakistan!

£12....in Thailand, I looked a few up in the UK, and £30 in Glasgow, £20 for 2 courses, £25 for 3 in NW England. I didn't even consider London. Are you considering a cheap curry or something?

I love you to death.

I thought I had reasonable 'cod' in Goosie's once. A lot of other places you might not know what 'fish' is in the fish and chips and its rather a difficult question to get across to the staff. Often you get a thin fish (it might be large but no thickness) which is soft and I really don't like it. I believe many UK chippys are substituting their cod with something else too.

Harvey Keitel

Perhaps 'they' was the issuing bank?

Steve Buscemi