jacko

More than all day, a chunk of the night too. When the TGFs mother stayed I was woken up by the smell of rice cooking at 4am!

Yeah me too, although the rest of the show was an anticlimax.You could sit at the beer bar and watch or get a table and have a bit of food.

Looks fine to me although I can't see a bottle of HP and a bit of fried black pudding! A steaming mug of tea needed too!

Not exactly sure what you are asking but there is a railway station at Manchester airport and it takes 15 minutes to get to check-in from there. As someone else said likely you could come into Manchester Picadilly, and have to change there to get a 20 minute ride to the airport on a quite frequent service. You can also change in Edinburgh where there is a service straight to Manchester Airport. Or pass through Manchester without changeing via Ediburgh or Glasdgow, then Preston. There is also a service from Carlisle to Manchester Airport.http://ojp.nationalr...090112/0815/dep Hope you didn't travel yesterday though. All the trains were delayed due to a big fire near the line in Leyland.

Ules Gold

What you need in a phone and what I do likely differ extremely MM. I will likely get a 2 SIM phone to take advantage of the better international prices of True Move without changing my current number. The dual SIM phones I have seen are known brands and I did not believe them to be copies. Plus the one the TGF has seems to have lasted better than the good Sony Eric I bought her. (duly trashed)My idea of a truly crap phone would be the type covered by extreme propriety protection, or have 100 buttons the size of 'dtaa mot'

Hardly a crime these days, the burgers always look better in the pics behind the servers too. (ala Michael Douglas in Falling Down).

Interesting discussion, I might be tempted to look at a condo as I am getting fed up of living far out of town with poor neighbours.I was reading that the Thai end of the market was booming currently as the recent floods persuaded many having a residence in Pattaya was a good idea. I also chatted with a marketing girl and she tried to deter me from buying it for the TGF..(.I was hoping to get a better price.) The off plan prices I was being quoted were high. I have a good friend living in Northshore, and he speaks highly of it.

Yes, Tesco did that to me in Laem Chabang,something going on!

Jan Michael Vincent

All rather conservative Mick.Fixed term deposits in the UK pay very poor returns these days and I might suggest an alternative. Even a fixed term deposit in Thailand would be better.

Just a matter of time on that one! Soon the baht bus driver will throw a hissy fit if you try and palm one of those off on him. That is where all the 10 baht coins have gone, hidden away by the baht bus drivers for the high season in an effort to force everyone to use a 20 baht note and there be no opportunity for change.

My friend investigated this and found there was no benefit to him. At least he was fortunate to get an honest answer.

Charles Bronson

Well done.Beware of resting on yer laurels though!

Ed Harris

I tried it yesterday about 4pm....crap.

I sort of agree with him. It seems to take up a lot of space at the bottom of the page and I misinterpret it as a list of those currently reading the thread.Aha... a collapse button!

Google not working?Tropical Berts

Memento

I stopped using Skype from Thailand to UK landlines as I could never get a good connection in the past, and I always felt it was a limitation of my TOT ADSL connection. Instead I used a CAT card and my mobile. But recently I went back to my $20 Skype credit and the calls worked fine. I am thinking the AIS wireless aircard is the limiting factor. How about the times you are communicating or her location.... likely the data transmission gets a lower priority/speed if the Thai mobile network is being well used.

Pattayaland 2, Soi 13/4. Later edit. Disregard, he found it. MM, he found it!

Upstairs in the jumbo or A380 is good too.... you can see better from up there!

Class Action.

A good summary. I live here and don't get to see what's going on around town!