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gary Oldman.

Good point. I just got back from town on the bike and it certainly seemed a bit more hazardous. More traffic about and people getting fed up of waiting. Decided I needed another coffee before proceeding. Consider what type of bike. Nuovo or Airblade is good, fully auto, disc on the front and electric start. Just so easy to drive.

George Clooney

Legally, you need an International licence and your UK one, for motorcycle, or a Thai licence.If you rent a bike in Pattaya I believe it is not supposed to be taken far out of town. To avoid being stopped, don't break rules. Those that get pulled over are invariably doing something wrong. No helmet is favourite, wrong way on one-way and parking too far forward at traffic lights. Unlike MM I do get stopped, generally for nothing otehr than random checks, but not in town, on roads in and out of Pattaya (railway line bypass, Soi Siam CC etc). What they seem to do is stop say 5 bikes, process them while others whiz past, then do that again. I guess they have a good yield that way, I bet 1 in 5 Thai riders has something not right. For me, helmet on, all my documents available, and they see a Thai licence, they wave me off like I am a nuisance. A bike is a great way to get around, be wary, as you say you are experienced and aware how driving standards are here. But never mix bike and booze. Even beware of riding the morning after, you need your wits about you.

I don't see what on earth code sharing has to do with the UK PM using a Qantas aircraft. I have been on enough flights to know only too well what confusion the idiotic idea of code sharing causes. It is a con to believe you have been booked on a BA flight to later discover it is an Iberia one. And it sure makes trying to find your flight on the board more difficult when either it is appearing as a different number and carrier, or in the midst of a block of several apparent flights which are actually the same one. Do you think you are the only person to have ever been to an aiport? Also QF002 did not leave T4 last night....AY5959,BA009,IB7618,QF302 left from T3 though. And QF002 normally leaves from T3, not T4 as you claim so you really do not know what you are talking about do you!!!!

Romance and Cigarettes.

Airport and Pattaya have no flooding issues.There are some shortages of items on the shelves but supply lines and logistics are coming together. I had breakfast in town yesterday and dinner at a restaurant near my home and could discern no problems.

Yes I got an update at the Expats Club on that yesterday. The new consul will be appointed they hope in January, and currently there are 2 ladies working there who are more efficient than the previous staff and can process pension confirmation letters the same day. Apparently they can get things done in 1/2 day/week faster than the previous arrangement which, although frequently closed, had more time available.

The road was being seriously dug up recently, on 2nd behind the Central Festival Beach Rd place, but was also tailed back from the Klang junction. I diverted towards Bua Khao and got stuck in a long wait at the 3rd/Klang Junction. Extra traffic from Bangkok, and I think tourists numbers is picking up (requiring those bloody great coaches the size of battleships that actually try to do U-Turns and go up little side sois), these days I just avoid taking the truck west of Suk. Can't wait for the new Tuk Com to open.

As usual you don't really know what you are talking about.David might be able to get a ride with Phil and Liz, most certainly not on a plane with a roo on the tail.

They think the PM of the UK flies Qantas.That is why the protesters are outside the LSX in tents rather than inside.

Look mate, I just tried to get through the Pattaya traffic on a Sunday afternoon. Not normally a big deal. I also rode into town Friday. Bangkok style traffic jams have come to Pattaya. Nearly as bad as trying to get a Qantas flight.

The Man Who Wasn't There.

Pushing Tin

You're in!

Darn ya. I was just tucking into a plate of fresh tropical fruits and your picture put me off it. I want the same as you now!

They got floods there!

Quite right, parking at the condo will be tough this weekend.

You wouldn't say that had you seen the traffic. You do realise Bangkok is a little bit bigger than Pattaya don't you.

Someone got me some for Christmas.... Burned the fuckin' skin off my face.

I have heard rumour of a double pricing policy ex Thailand, not sure on that one.I always felt the Thais around me in many restaurants got served ahead of me, but hey, their country.

We could use a password system.Answer 3 questions correctly. 1) Who on PT knows everything? 2) Who is fat and bald and currently banned from posting. 3) How much does Gabor pay? And you get the PT benefits.

A river runs through it.

Well it is creeping near to areas perhaps some mongers know. Disaster struck when the flood barricade defending the Phra Khanong canal’s embankments suddenly broke down, discharging large volumes of water to inundate Sukhumvit 48 and 50 roads. Currently in Pattaya the sun could burn the skin off your back. As forecast roads were chock-a-block last night heading into Pattaya and some stupid Bangkok cow nearly knocked me off my bike because she wasn't looking ahead. Another goon had pulled over on the RHS of the carriage way, hazards on at least, bonnet/hood up. She was overtaking me as I overtook a m/c sidecar and then had to swerve left as she had not been looking and nearly hit me. Thai drivers are fucking stupid. Big tangle at railway line/Soi siam CC. Managed to push through on the bike but most were stationary. Things seemed OK once I got onto Klang although the police had closed it at TOPS. I drove through the barriers! Good night out with no apparent differences. If the sun is blasting in Bangkok like this it should evaporate all of it by tomorrow!!!

Bill, that OP question was posted 7 years ago. MCC has got married, moved to Surin and built a house and bought 3 buffalos already.