Where can I buy globes in Pattaya or Bangkok?

[jackcorbett 2]

I want to buy a nice 14 inch diameter world globe. Option number a National Geographic globe shipped to a U.S. address and then I'd pick it up the first week of September during my brief trip back to my home country and bring it back on the plane with me. I believe the National Geographic globes are the best although they are quite expensive. However....I probably will have to pay extra shipping costs if I go this route.

 

Option number 2 is to buy one immediately upon my return ito Bangkok by staying one night the date of my return flight. I could shop for the globe either that day or the next day, then return to Pattaya the next evening. The globes I've found so far in Pattaya (eg. at an office supply store just East of Carre Four) have been disappointing, being THai English globes or the fancy expensive models that would be lucky to have as much detail as Australia labeling the countries. I'm thinking Bangkok would have globes for sale that are a cut or two above what I've seen in Pattaya so far.

[yselmike 397]

Michael Palin takes a blow up globe with him on his travels, get a BG to pump

it up for you before the geography lessons

[Chivas 0]

Not sure if the sellers are still there but if you go into Tops from the Pattaya Klang traffic light entrance and go up the escalator there was a shop selling globes that were superb but expensive around 30,000 baht but take it from me they were good !

 

Chivas

[jackcorbett 2]

Checked Topps and you are right, the sellers are gone.

 

I've found a couple of places here in Pattaya that sell globes, an office supply store here in Naklua and Friendship but most are bilingual..that is they show the captions in both Thai and English which cuts the raw data by half while cluttering the globe up. I found small gloves in English but small won't cut it. I need one that is 12 to 14 inches in diameter. I found one or two models that were in English only but these were very poorly done.

 

My girlfriend did an Internet Search in THai for Bangkok and although she found a couple of places she felt the models were the same ones being sold here in Pattaya and that we might be wasting our time spending a night over in Bangkok.

 

So it looks like I might be taking the U.S. option by transporting a globe in the cargo hold of my Eva Airlines flight back from the U.S. I'm weighing a National Geographic globe against one of the Repogle models.

[Paul1975 0]

Hi everybody.

 

I have been looking on these pages for some time and realised their is alot of peolpe looking for advise which is greatly given by the expierenced users.

 

I am a documentary film maker and I have made my last film on Pattaya. filmed in April this year. Many media and TV go to Pattaya and have a dig at it and tell the wrong story of just sex and crime etc.

 

My film is about the true life there and advise for poeple who have never been before.

Its 45 minutes long with 8 interviews from many well know people who lived in the city for many years and still to this day. Its basicaly explains how the city all works. abit like the books you can buy but in a film format, and unlike the books you know its real life advise, not a made up into a story.

 

it took 6 months to make and if you are a regular visitor to the city you will see many familar faces within the film.

 

if anybody is interested in taking a detailed look into what its all about and the reasons into why I made the film then please type in 'Pattaya' on ebay or go to my company website www.eggtvuk.co.uk

 

Thank you for your time.

Paul Everett

EGG TV.

 

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