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To many people Bali will always be associated with those terrible bombings that killed and maimed hundreds of people. Like it or not many prospective tourists and ex pats will always think of thsoe atrocities whenever Bali is mentioned. Egypt and Tunisia used to have thriving tourist industries. Their resorts are like ghost towns now for the same reasons. Few people these days even consider holidaying in Islamic countries.

Do Trump rallies turn violent and are his supporters of of a violent nature? If so then it's understandable why he is not very popular with certain sections of the American public. In the UK it's usually followers of the left that are inclined to violence.

Rent don't buy.

So did I. I had it for ages and the battery would last a couple of years. When I bought it I did not expect it to last three months. It gave up the ghost after about six years.

All the girls I am referring to work selling sexual services for a living, they are either GGGs, freelancers or BBGs, or in less delicate terms they are what is known collectively as prostitutes. Apart from shop girls and hotel staff every girl I've had anything to do with in Pattaya has been on the game. And from what we occasionally hear some of Pattaya's hotel staff and shop girls are not as pure as the driven snow either especially when a bit of money is concerned. Now do you seriously think that I or anyone else who engages the services of these lasses is going to start making inquiries as to whether or not they are in 'permanent relationships'? I'm really not interested. It's not my business and if I did ask they'd say 'No' anyway. Picture the scenario. The punter says, "How much do you want". "Two thousand baht" replies the prostitute. "Now you don't have a boyfriend or a husband do you" asks the punter,"because that wouldn't be right". "Of course not Tilac" says she. Imagine the laughs she'll get later on when she tells her chums about this strange Falang she'd just been with! Shagging my pals' girlfriends or wives holds no allure for me in a town full of professional sex workers. In nearly all cases it would be the best way to lose those pals if ever they find out. Kindly expand on what you mean when you claim that 'Your double standards are shocking...' I honestly fail to see what double standards I'm availing myself of and even if I am how they could be described as shocking except by the most dedicated puritan. Er, this is a forum mainly dedicated to a town where punters habitually go with women for money. You are aware of that aren't you.

I'm just about still in my sixties and I'm beginning to lose interest although I spend nearly every evening in GGBs. I don't mind buying a few LDs as long as I like the girl concerned and she does not start the 'dink for my sister' routine but that's getting to be the norm in GGBs now. And obviously I like watching them dance. I've noticed this decline in my sex drive over the last six months in particular. Although I know what you mean about 'The cute, giving, sexy and totally available ladies make this a joy.' When you meet such girls it still gives me a boost but many of the GGB divas are no longer like that. A lot of 'em are just drink poncing, money grabbing mercenary little bitches who simply want to get as much out of the punter as they possibly can for as little effort in return, but that's the nature of their job now. It's the business they've entered. I only barfine the ones I've got to know very well and have no interest in the younger girls. I go for girls who are normally over 30 and they're not always GGGs, I've had freelancers and BBGs as well over the years. . The older ones are more clued up as to how to treat their punters and of course we've all got our own tastes in women. These days I just stick to ST arrangements made over the phone which are nearly always conducted during the day light hours. Like many long time bachelors who come to Pattaya I do not seem inclined or able to enter a more serious or permanent relationship. Some may find this attitude rather shallow.

I alternate between the UK and Pattaya by spending three months in each country using a multi entry visa. After a while the novelty wears off and the attitude of the locals has definitely deteriorated in recent years. We're also getting older and our sex drive is diminishing or it will do eventually. But even Pattaya on a bad day beats our lives in our Western homelands practically all the time. I've got two ex pat chums who have been in the LOS and the PI for upwards of twenty years. Neither of them ever takes a girl back to their lodgings, sex no longer means anything to either of them. In fact they rarely have a good word to say about Thai women. One is 64 and the other is about 58. I used to think they were a bit peculiar but now I can see how they've got that way. But they keep themselves busy and have interests that occupy a good bit of their time, both of them spend hours each day on the internet. But neither of them could stay for long back in the UK, both have been back in the last couple of years ago and hated what had become of their parts of the country, it had also become much more expensive than they were used to in Pattaya although I can live on much less in London than I do in Pattaya but unlike my two pals I still have some interest in the girls although admittedly not like I used to have. "Do you guys have any way of bringing back the spark," If there was a surefire way that I knew of I'd tell you. A lot of it is to do with our aging process, we do not like to admit it but it's true. One way that I found that definitely works is to travel around Pattaya a bit more. I stay near LKM and after a while it becomes a bit stale so I make a point of getting out and about a bit further. Last night I went to Walking Street and another evening I went to Sois 7 & 8 and it made a refreshing change. But it was a bit of a shock to see how quiet some GGBs were for the 22nd of December. Alcatraz and the Beach Club had less than 10 punters a piece in them when I was in them! I remember at this time of the year in the past you'd have your work cut out finding a lass who took your fancy. There's definitely less money about than there was years ago.

I can think of three little darlings in Pandoras which I find is a similar number of girls that may take my fancy in any GGB. They may not be as beautiful as some of the WS divas but they're a sight friendlier, more down to earth and just as sexy. Being a small place it has a more intimate feel to it. But as Butch said the toilet arrangements could be improved upon by simply increasing the facilities although such a complaint could be leveled at several other GGBs in Pattaya. I sometimes go in a Lady Love, a much larger and fancier venue over the road and often have to wait for one of the two WCs to become vacant in there.

I used to use The Little Wonder in the arcade quite a lot as I'm very partial to P & M and still do on occasion. The old owner from East London sold the place but never the less you can still get decent P & M there, not quite so good as when the cockney had it but still quite passable and as you know the secret is in the liquor. Usually I get my P & M from Arments in Westmoreland Road, Walworth, South London. But single pie and mash is getting on for 4 quid so it's not a cheap meal any more. When I first went there in about 1962 it was a shilling (5p) So were school dinners if my memory serves me right. At home in London we can make mince meat pies with the meat's own juice trapped in them. I buy the pastry already made, you just have to roll it out to shape. It's not cheap, enough pastry for four pie shop sized pies is about two and a half quid but anyone can do it just like they can make mashed potato!. Then the mince meat for four pies is around anoth three quid. Failing that most supermarkets sell frozen mince meat pies just like they do the chilli vinegar. That leaves the liquor. I have just discovered that Bisto now make parsley sauce, just like they do chip shop curry sauce and cheese sauce. It comes in a round cardboard container just like their gravy granules do. It's not sold everywhere but I obtained mine in Pound Stretchers I've recently made my own pie, mash and liquor on two occasions and it was very palatable even if I do say so myself. My son is also fond of P & M and when I told him I'd made us some for our dinner he was a bit dubious to say the least but changed his tune once he'd eaten it.

It was probably the work of a prankster who contacted the plod and said they were running an illicit casino or gamling den There'a a card school of Frenchmen who play nearly every day around a table in my hotel and no one has ever interfered with them. I don't know if they play for money or not but there is never any cash in view on the table.

"This story should go viral in the international news...it would serve them right." The Daily Mail would love this one even though the publication is banned in Thailand.

If you're not really a bar person the easiest way to meet people is where you decide to stay so opt for a hotel or a guest house rather than a house or some out of the way condo where there is very little personal interaction. It's as easy to get chatting to people round a hotel swimming pool as it is sitting in a bar. Over the years I've met many falangs in my hotel. Some have become firm friends and some of those friendships have endured for years and we keep in touch back in Falangland. I've met up with quite a few Pattaya chums in London and keep in touch with others from all over the place by phone, Skype, Line or email. Sadly several of them have now passed on and I've attended funerals of old pals I've met in the LOS in both England and Pattaya. Others over the years have just stopped coming due to financial or health reasons. One of my friends is a dustman from Rochdale in the North of England and another is an ex army officer who went to a well known British public school and was a tank commander in the Korean War. You can meet all sorts in Pattaya who've wound up there for a variety of reasons.

That was hilarious that T shirt. They had it hanging up on the wall of the GGB. It was opposite the old Mulligan's bar which is now called the Sin Bin. Pattayaland used to be the entertainment centre of Pattaya in those days till it got queerified and Walking Street took up the mantle.. You could have a good night out in Pattayaland without having to go anywhere else much like you can now in LKM which only opened up around 8 years ago with Champagne being its only GGB for quite a while. Previously LKM did not exist back then and few punters ever wandered inland from Second Rd unless it was to visit the Buffalo Bar which was located in what was then basically countryside and considered to be out in the boondocks. It was the only building in that part of Third Rd.

Try Beach Rd or Walking Street.

It's not a matter of having 'balls'. What a stupid fucking comment! If you refuse to be searched you get arrested, you're searched anyway, your home is also searched and you can have your passport confiscated. Where would having 'balls' or not get anyone in such circumstances. Instead I swallowed the loss of the tobacco and bit my lip over the insinuations of sexual perversion. Which is exactly what you'd have done.

The biggest downside is being frisked not only by the Pakis at Heathrow but also the Algerians at CDG. There are very few people around who are as tolerant of other races and embrace multiculturalism more than myself and even fewer who are more appreciative of the benefits that mass immigration has brought to the UK but that would seriously get my goat. The last time I arrived back at LHR a Paki customs tart nicked my 15 pouches of Golden Virginia and took my computer and portable hard drive away on the pretense of looking for animal and child porn. I was tempted to go into one about the grooming gangs in Rotherham and the fondness her countrymen are said to have for carnal activities with donkeys, goats and camels but thought better of it and decided to hold my tongue as exercising our much vaunted freedom of speech can have serious consequences regarding any future travel plans you may consider making. You'd think that our political establishment would see sense and keep these people in their corner shops and in local government rather than letting them more or less run Britain's major airport and its security systems. What any sane Westerner must think when he or she arrives at LHR on a trip to England beggars belief. It can surely only be a matter of time.....

How do you get informed of these offers. I book with West East and they quote around 3000 quid. Does the business class seat fold down to a flat bed and is the grub any better than in economy. On my last couple of trips the breakfasts were not too bad but the dinners were quite frankly revolting.

Totally ignore business opportunity ideas and live there first for at least a few years.

18 Coins on Soi Bhukaow opposite Sutus Court just South of Hellfire Crossing sold them last year. The restaurant has moved over the road next to Sutus Ct so it's likely one or the other will have them. It's good to hear of people who still appreciate the sacrifices past generations made but successive UK governements have rendered those sacrifices to have been made in vain. Germany rules Europe, the Poles on whose behalf we declared wat in 1939 are nicking our jobs and the Iraqi affair has proven to be a fiasco. When the last of our boys left Camp Bastion in Afghanistan they had to take the memorial stone to their dead with them because it would have been smashed to smithereens by the locals before their plane had touched down in Brize Norton.

You're right the Hard Rock Cafe will wind up costing them a fortune. The Areca Lodge is a lovely hotel in Soi Diana with two swimming pools, is guest friendly and within shagging distance of LK Metro and a 10 baht 5 minute bus ride to and from Walking Street. The same can be said of The Metropole also in Soi Diana and several other establishments in the immediate area from 1000 to 2500 baht a night so they are not what you might call cheap. The HRC can hardly be said to be in the 'heart of the action' being up in North Pattaya nor is it any better than lots of Pattaya hotels, it's just more expensive and has been known to be peculiar about girls staying over night.

It looks a fantastic museum if those marvelous photos are anything to go by. I'll bet you you could easily spend a full day in there. All the exhibits look well preserved, maintained, clean, tidy and presented in a very professional manner. Out of interest Firth what took you to Korea? Apart from a few old boys I've known who did their National Service out there I don't know anyone who's ever visited the country. Incidentally one of them is a seventy nine year old ex pat who lives in my Pattaya hotel and who as a young lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps commanded a Centurion Tank during the conflict but like most war veterans has very little to say about it other than what a noise the main armament of the vehicle made when it was fired.

I rent a 30 square metre hotel room bang in the centre of town near Hellfire Crossing. It has wifi, TV, a fair sized fridge, a swimming pool and a jacuzzi, the room is cleaned and the linen changed every other day, very effective air con and naturally the electricity and water is included in the rent. I stay for three months at a time and keep the room on permanently and usually visit three times a year so I spend most of my life in Pattaya. The staff are helpful, friendly and see to any problems quite promptly. I tip the cleaners from 60 baht - 100 baht each time they clean although mostly I just tell 'em to change the towels as I tidy up myself and when I go back to the UK after each three month stint I leave a 1000 baht tip for all the staff so I am always treated well. Although the area is buzzing with night life my room is off the main road and it is very quiet at night apart from the occasional drunken guest being a bit noisy sometimes but that happens all over Pattaya. I've bought cooking equipment over the years and there are plenty of cafes nearby. I've had the room for about 11 years and have paid a little over a million baht in rent since I moved in but have a carefree existence and that's the way I like it. We don't know what's round the corner and buying a place thousands of miles away does not appeal to me at all. I've had a few chums die out in the LOS, a few have to leave for health reasons and one or two have got fed up with place and moved back home or somewhere else. I can't see Pattaya being such an attractive place to live in 10 years time if the worsening attitude of some Thai girls spreads and prices keep rising like they have over the last ten years. You can't take your home with you and if you're a single fellow will your relatives and family ever bother about claiming ownership of it should you expire? All well and good if you have a Thai wife or girlfriend but should you choose to be a bachelor what will become of your 'investment' then? . Should I wish to I can pack up and leave Pattaya today and give any belongings I can't get in my suitcase to the staff or pals or just leave it. The value of what I've accumulated over the years would be unlikely to exceed 20,000 baht (400 quid). When I first started spending a lot of time in Pattaya I looked into ownership but back then the agents kept insisting on steering you in the direction of Jomtien, I suppose they still do but as a single man I wanted to be in Pattaya and moved into the hotel room I still occupy and I've never regretted it. I doubt that would be the case had I bought a house out in the boondocks on the Darkside or some condo in a tower block.

I've only heard praise for both airlines from British chums of mine who've used them from Heathrow so I can't see the Schipol to BKK service being any different. The same goes for Emirates.

First off install/download a 'client' on to your PC. The two main ones are Vuze and Utorrent, they are like an agent who gets the films for you on your favourites/downloads and documents sections in your libraries files. Then you have to do the same for a player which plays the movies on your screen The best ones are VLC player and GOM Player and Windows Media Player which most PCs have on their system when you buy it. You'll only need to buy a couple of MAINS speakers as the in built speakers are often not loud enough. Then you look up a 'Torrent' site like Kickass or Pirate Bay or you can subscribe to one but they are free so don't get kidded into paying for anything. These sites will get the films etc on to your files/docs /downloads via the torrent clients ie Vuze and Utorrent. Follow the instructions and the films will be downloaded/recorded into your client and automatically into your files, it can take minutes but usually a few hours if you're in Pattaya and Bob's your Uncle and you're up and away. You surely have a pal who's au fait with the procedure and you will probably find that a youngster who has grown up with computers will be able to help you set it up in minutes then you'll have to learn by experience to perfect it. I've been watching films and TV programs on my PC for about 6 years! But I'm still learning and picking up tips from friends. I've watched every single episode of Breaking Bad, Upstairs Downstairs, Dads Army, The Wire and many other series not to mention untold films on my laptop all for the price of a pair of speakers of 14 UKPs or 700 baht. And saved a lot of dough by not going out every night or having to watch films as they come up on poxy Sophon TV.

It was the same in LKM. They also had that 30 foot long Chinese dragon with a great big drum and crashing cymbals to add to the racket and expecting people to pay for the privilege of being deafened while any attempt at conversation was pointless. I saw just one punter give the dragon's escorts any money. For some it simply turned NYE into a nightmare and it went on for about 2 hours from one end of LKM to the other. I went into a GGB for a bit of peace and quiet! Western Falangs were also spraying passers by in the face with foam regardless of their agreeing to it. Just like Songkran. The traffic in Soi Bhukaow was horrendous with people coming down from Bangkok for the celebrations. Wished I'd have stayed in.