jacko

Mexico is a Western country? Methinks you are pandering to the Americans who rave about Mexican food, because they know no other foreign fayre! Most of it looks like someone threw up over a plate! British food is of course hardly 'haute cuisine', but if you were brought up on it, it is comfort food. I had to go Italian, it is the one European country I lived in for some months, outside the UK that you listed (Spanish can be good), and even the lunch in the factory canteen was great. German food is heavy and often overly salted, but in Germany itself I have had some excellent 'game' meals. I don't need to go to Greggs for a good pie anymore, I can get a better result from the Baker's Oven for 70 baht out of my own microwave!

I am up before the sun most days and have taken to donning a T-shirt in the mornings, and I am in Pattaya! She will be up a few hours later wandering about with a quilted jacket on, complaining of the cold. I love it, refreshing, air that you can breathe instead of suffocates. Coming out of the bedroom is no longer like entering a sauna. Mind you, I seem to put off the morning shower until later!

I like to check amd pump my tyres myself, and my foot pump lasted a while, but sadly packed in. The replacement, couldn't find a foot pump, so got an electric compressor, cheap thing that plugs into the cigarette lighter. Piece of Chinese crap, wires too short and stopped working after 2nd use. Rather than trouble myself returning it to Homeworks, I relieved tension, amused the locals and scared the soi dogs by smashing it up in the street. So, anybody recommend a place for a good old fashioned foot pump in Pattaya! Homeworks + Big C Nope... Home Pro and Carrefour...nope....

Only when they are his....

There can be a lot of feely feely as you walk down soi 6 to the beach....or soi 6/1 depending on your 'bent'.

A hotel is often a small cramped room with a shitty shoe box sized TV (per Lek hotel old wing) . Were the apartments offered suites perhaps, with big screen and DVD player? I don't spend much time in reception, not the hotel pool full of brats, so a nice spacious apartment is worth 1000/day!

Non passengers are not allowed near the gates, perhaps you mean the entrance to the arrivals hall. The arrivals area is crowded and it can be hard to meet people.

He said for Xmas 2009. So perhaps £1000 would be more on the mark.

Not sure that is the responsibility of all the airlines.. . Thai Airways need to start things off then others would need to compete!

Well thanks for the effort but all of this is the same as the http://www.pattayaphotoguide.com/ which I have used a lot. My problem was that http://www.mapjack.com/ doesn't have a scroll bar at the right to scroll down to the map. I was trying to access the controls and a full view of the Google Map. Ooops, figured it, you can resize the photograph window! I just went across the bay Bridge towards Oakland, sure takes me back! Just took a look at Rosie's Cafe, a place I had a snack at on Lake Tahoe years ago! Does it only cover the USA and Thailand?

Are you also a falang yourself? Anyhow, follow the advice of Bill Clinton, don't inhale!

This looks interesting, but I am having some issues trying to figure out how to use it! There is no scroll bar to go between the picture and the map! There is one for the left side control panel! I am impressed by picture quality. Very nostalgic for me to take a stroll through San Francisco!

Afraid not..... think elephant!

They aren't the only ones, I just came back with about 3 KG of 1 baht coins from a night out. Next time I am at a loose end I am going to go in my penny jar, count out 99 baht piles and sellotape them into rolls and pay a few bills with them.

http://www.pattayaphotoguide.com/

And.....the TGF just told me the per unit charge for electricity is due to go up January, she mentioned 3.5 baht/unit. If I recall the electric charge is on a sliding scale depending on consumption, but my average cost works out at about 2.5baht/unit not including fuel surcharge.

I have had 3 or 4 dodgy stomachs in Thailand, but considering the amount of time I have been here, that isn't so bad. I have a much higher rate of 'hits of shits' on trips to India. In Thailand I have gotten sick twice from having some food cooked for me on the beach, and twice from Indian restaurants. I don't use the carts outside of the meat on sticks barbecue..... that was after seeing what happened to a girl I was taking back to the room.... she was not well! I have been very ill twice from a certain well known brand of beer too!

Government interference normally gets me worried!

You won't get 1/2 those miles until you are back in the UK. I would always chase ticket price first, miles are a bonus, but cash works best!

Anything that is cooked infront of your eyes is likely OK. Beware of the soups where they just seem to pour 'hot' water from a flask over some meats... sometimes raw liver is in there. Late at night the water may not be so hot, and the meats have been sitting around. Personally never had a problem that I could attribute to ice, but I don't like the way I sometimes get a glass that is still wet from a bowl full of slops.

Well I probably haven't so I won't bother. I had an update from my neighbour who went a few months back with his 'extended' family. When he found out how much they wanted to take this herd in, he also did an about turn.

I posted a link to help locate the place in an earlier thread. Search and ye shall find!

I can't say I have ever come across this. As you say, they are 'so called' Irish bars, they don't sell stamps and chewing gum either.

Not true, you need to use Thailand based outfits. Try these for an idea on prices. I would say that since the prices are based in Thai baht, they look expensive! http://www.traveltech2000.com/default.asp http://www.bluenwhite.com/

Nicked spare wheel, let me guess, you drive a truck where the spare is winched under the bed at the back?