Bigmike

Mate if you look around they do have a web site Bigmike.

Toppie asked for information concerning the Lido Beach Hotel not the Eastiny. Sorry Toppie I have no information about it what so ever. Bigmike.

Your forgiven as you poor Kiwis no not what you do. Bigmike.

Mate there is a post just above this one which has been on the board a few days now on the same subject, also the same heading. All your doing here is repeating the same post. Bigmike.

You can't keep a secret can you. Bigmike.

Singapore Airlines are supposed to take their first delivery next year of the A380. Bigmike.

I don't think 5000 per month is a great deal of money. If you want live the same life style as you did back home wheather it be the US or Australia you would want a car which involves running costs, health insurance, insurance for the Condo and contents plus body corporate and maintenance fees if you own it, a feed out at a good restaurant like Brunos and some good seafood like a lobster, all your service charges for the condo plus your booze and women. Believe me you don't want to be sitting on the steps of a 7/11 sipping cheap beer or riding around on a push bike. Nope 5 grand a month is not excessive I would call it the minimum amount. Bigmike.

Gee whiz Floyd they ordered two, well thats more than the Kiwi Navy has ships. Bigmike

Qantas has already ordered a heap of the new double decker Airbus so why would they order the new Boeing ??. Bigmike.

I'm pretty sure that I read in a post that you can open a HSBC account in Bangkok from the UK, or maybe the arrangements can be started in the UK to open a Thai account. I think it may have been Hilly who posted the info some time ago P.M him if you want more information. I know that HSBC like to deal in large amounts, in Australia anyway. Bigmike.

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There are two A.A. Hotels in Soi 13. One is opposite the Sportsman's Bar and the other on the corner of Soi 13 and Beach Rd. The one on the corner doesn't have a good reputation. Bigmike.

rhino the two Hotels are owned by the same mob who own the sandy Spring, not far from there to Walking St you just gotta negotiate second Rd Bigmike.

I don't know about that BA have looked after me fine, especially in business class and world traveler plus between Sydney and Bangkok. Bigmike.

The map seems to be some what out of date. Bigmike.

It is for one but I think I read somewhere that you will be hit with a joiner fee for any more. Bigmike.

Well the Sandy spring is right next door to the Sportsman and opposite The Inn House. Bigmike.

Samsonite are you sure it was the Sandy Spring ?. I stop there and so do a heap of other Bordie's including Sa-Teef and Bazzap and the only complaints that I have heard is the construction noise from some of the front rooms sometimes. Bigmike.

Get it right mate, are you are referring to Kiwis with that post, maybe you need to take your self in hand Bigmike.

I stop at the Sandy Spring and use there safety deposit boxes to put all my valuables in, they are the two key type and are at reception always accessible with security guard day and night .Bigmike.

What is all the attraction with in room safes. What's wrong with a safety deposit box Bigmike.

Christ mate you must be bringing some ugly fuckers back. Bigmike.

A few years ago when I was a frequent visitor to the Philippines one of the first to do things was find the cleanest shit houses, I found that San mig was an excellent laxative. Someone mentioned that hotel foyers are a good place for a dump, I found the same thing, next was bars some were awful some were quite good. Now at Pattaya it's hard to find a decent clean dunny with shit house paper so I carry a little plastic bag with a roll of paper in it. Hotel foyers are still one of the best IMHO. When visiting the big malls it's also a good idea to find out were the facilities are. It is very embarrassing walking around with sloppy shit running down your legs plus the stench Bigmike.

Has any one asked for your opinion Bigmike.

Just have look at this and see where half the pommy team came from. Bigmike ONCE the sun never set on the British empire. Now it rarely shines on a home-grown Briton. At least in most of their sporting teams Ah, the joy of sport in England. Wandering over to Lord's to watch a one-dayer between Australia and a United Nations side masquerading as England. Listening to the historic ground resonate with great names like Tony Greig, Allan Lamb, Robin Smith, Andy Caddick and Graham Hick. All Africans, except Caddick who was a Kiwi but don't quibble. And don't forget Geraint Jones, England's current wicket-keeper, was raised in Queensland. After the one-dayer, let's go to Wimbledon when well-known Pom, Sir Cliff Richard (born in India), will lead the cheering for another popular Pom, Greg Rusedski (born in Canada). Ah, Mother England. Who knew you spread your favours so wide? Driven by sheer snivelling, embarrassment and decades of being an international sporting joke, the desperate Brits have become Check Point Charlie in world sport. They process foreign visas into English passports to turn foreigners into Poms the way ancient alchemists tried to turn other base material into gold. Even their promising batsman Kevin Pietersen is about as English as a barbecue on the veldt. He petulantly walked away from South African cricket and qualified for England because of his English-born mother. When Australian born-and-raised fast bowler Martin McCague was picked in the England side in 1993 he was described as "the rat who joined a sinking ship". Martin meet Kevin. The reason England is delirious with joy at the moment and more on the nose than cheap perfume is because its cricket team won a one-dayer and a Twenty20 game against Australia. That's it. Just winning a couple of puff-and-powder one-dayers was enough for England's cheeks to rouge with excitment and her crinoline petticoats to fly at mid-calf. It is like being able to tell the difference between jellied eels and welks and saying you're a gourmet. Australia have won the last eight Ashes series (in 1989 4-nil, 1991 3-nil, 1993 4-1, 1995 3-1, 1997 3-2, 1998-99 3-1, 2001 4-1, 2002-3 4-1. In all that time, England have won just one "live" match (first Test 1997). The other wins were in dead rubbers where compassion might have stayed Australia's hand. In one of the Tests a car backfired outside the ground and a player said loudly: "Good God, Mike Atherton's shot himself." Atherton was steadily working his way toward a Test record 19 dismissals by Australian bowler Glenn McGrath at the time. The most excited England became was in 1997 when they won all three one-day games and the first Test. Then the heavens realigned themselves and Australia yelled "April Fool" and won the next three Tests by (1) 268 runs (2) an innings and 61 runs and (3) 264 runs. When Sir Cliff is at Wimbledon he might talk to Lleyton Hewitt who says England might be sorry for poking the Tiger. "I'm thinking that with England it will all come back to bite them," he said. "England talk themselves up every time." In New York Harbour the Statue of Liberty proclaims: "Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed to me." The Poms have the same sign hanging off Brighton Pier, but they added an extra line. "Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed to me. "And we'll put them in our sporting teams and pretend they're home grown." They were going to make offers to Japanese sportsmen but they could not reach agreement. The whale wouldn't fit in the Thames. One day Australia will lose the Ashes to England and it will be as horrific as waking up after a night on the drink in a room full of images of Camilla Parker Bowles. But it won't be this year.