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Got stopped yesterday.... simply showed my Thai licence and was on my way. Didn't even have to take my helmet off.

No, even the very few we did have have given up on the restriction.Not in Thai nature to impose the rules, other than paying the bill. We now have to rely on the consideration of smokers not to do so in an enclosed environment..........

The First Wives Club.

Sex and the City 2

Sex and the City

A much better LA Story

The awful......Three Amigos

Much better prices are available from the UK end these days.Chauffeur at the Thailand end won't go as far as Pattaya for free though. (60km max). Pretty classy Merc at the Manchester end....

Christmas Vacation......

And the people of the City breathe a sigh of relief and say can we now get back to normal......?

Vacation.

High speed internet connection required........ ain't got one, certainly not to an international server. Where is this server by the way? At Expats yesterday there was talk of a system that beams some UK channels via satellite to a server in Bangkok, I could manage 2MB to there perhaps. It was subscription and either you put software on your computer, or plugged your router into another box that put out a signal for a TV. Hidef could be possible with that arrangement. The box cost a bit too.

Independence Day

Those types of tales, and the following post by Gabor (exhibiting how these dim-witted locals can be conned into letting anybody into a condo) make one worry. Prior to a financial 'set-back', I was contemplating buying a condo in town. Currently I have a house well out of town. I felt I needed a place to stay now and again, where I could drive there, have a night in town, and come back to the house next day. I miss having good restaurants and bars nearby. The place could also act as a fall-back when I decide to sell the house. Perhaps I need to do a deal with some guy who leaves his place empty 9 months a year.

Dances with Wolves.

The Untouchables.

The crazy woman of mine set her phone on vibrate alarm to get up and watch this!Didn't make much difference as she knocked the bloody lamp over when it went off I was well woken. She came back to bed quietly so I knew he had lost! This morning I was told Chinese man fight bad way......

On the way back last time I could only muster 15kg, half of my allowance.Mind you, have you ever seen Egyptians travel..... they have those big wrenches for getting the kitchen sink out!

Just took a look at my Qatar ticket to Manchester. The fare was 68500 baht.... what they categorise as 'taxes and Carrier-imposed Fees' another 22,010.00 THB A third on top.With the current oil price, and the way the air ticket has been a source of unlimited taxes and charges by goody goody green governments.... and then the added satisfaction of asking more from those who prefer not to be treated like a sardine and have the effrontery to pay more for a bit of comfort, I wonder how they are filling up the planes.

What the hell is going on? There was a film to film post and a bounce back that may be a pun.... Too much Saturday night boozing going on....last I can see is...... The Sopranos lady...... a fine HBO series. Medicine Man

Sadly a lot have their houses taken away by the party too.

The Big Breakfast. ?

Etihad are now offering quite a few more tickets in the 93,000 baht range. As usual I moved too soon......... Etihad offer the inclusive chauffeur cars which can save me quite a few thousand baht, and it sure is convenient. Nice Merc at the Manchester end, and getting picked up/ dropped right at the terminal is nice.

Getting a baht bus these days isn't like it used to be. I end up on motorcycles more often than not. Too often it is like they are ridiculing you slowing down, or stopping, only to drive off before you get there. Only ones that stop are packed........ As I rode on the back of a bike down second Rd at 2am Friday we passed a mile of empty parked up baht buses choking up the roads. Most on the move seem to be empty searching for a Russian family in need of a ride to The Ambassador I guess. PBG does pub-grub?