Pictures from around Pattaya

[forcebwithu 4,745]

2 hours ago, jacko said:

I drove through town (2nd and Klang) at midday yesterday..... traffic wise it is beginning to look like Bangkok. Tried to cut through BuaKhao to 3rd but no better. 

Only going to get worse on the weekends next month with the music festival every weekend.

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[Kev 173]

What building is second photo after the old Merc please?

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41 minutes ago, Kev said:

What building is second photo after the old Merc please?

The new Akara hotel just north of the Dolphin roundabout.

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A selection from the Kite event held this afternoon and through the weekend.

 

Edited February 22 by blue_flag

[Bazle 1,442]

^^^

It's great to see blue sky in those pics. (Hope it wasn't Photoshopped! 😃) 

[forcebwithu 4,745]

This is why metallic light poles in Thailand should be given a wide berth, especially when it's raining. Shame it takes someone getting electrocuted before the city will take corrective action. This pole is on 3rd Rd near the Klang intersection, so it's not like it's in an out of the way soi and easily overlooked.

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Beach Road this morning.

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21 hours ago, Bazle said:

^^^

It's great to see blue sky in those pics. (Hope it wasn't Photoshopped! 😃) 

OK @Bazle, there was a little mist.

 

Edited February 23 by blue_flag

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Day two of the Kite Event.

 

[forcebwithu 4,745]

@blue_flag want to trade cameras? The photos you take are so much sharper and the colors brighter than what I get out of my Olympus TG5.

Self-serve cannabis, for medicinal purposes only...

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Business must be booming as it looks like 79 Mookata may be expanding. I'm guessing that as the new support pillars line up with the existing building.

Quite a bit has changed at this corner over the last dozen years.

From my photo archives this pic from the same position back in 2012.

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There is a profitable tourist industry in Pattaya, as well as bars massages etc.

Edited February 25 by blue_flag

[Broughton 493]

I keep an eye on the water levels over at Maprachan when I’m out that way and the lakes is still relatively full compared to the drought years but I have to say that more and more land is becoming visible just wondering if we’ll be able to survive the hot season round the corner without water outages. 

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Are you hinting that there might not be enough to soak the sois with in April

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12 minutes ago, Regyai said:

Are you hinting that there might not be enough to soak the sois with in April

Now that would be worth forgoing the odd shower for. But actually it’s a good point I doubt the authorities gave that a thought.

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Used to be an annual laugh in the past with a declaration that there was plenty in the reservoirs  followed by the post Songkran drought measures

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1 hour ago, Broughton said:

Now that would be worth forgoing the odd shower for. But actually it’s a good point I doubt the authorities gave that a thought.

It was amazing to see during the pandemic. We were in the midst of a severe drought. I could ride your bike across the middle of Mabprachan. And the authorities wasted what little water was available washing down the sois with the absurd idea they could wash away the virus.

Edited February 25 by forcebwithu

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13 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

And the authorities wasted what little water was available washing down the sois with the absurd idea they could wash away the virus.

Even Soi 6 got a good hose down IIRC.. although for which virus, we were never told!

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On 2/24/2024 at 12:08 PM, forcebwithu said:

@blue_flag want to trade cameras? The photos you take are so much sharper and the colors brighter than what I get out of my Olympus TG5.

Self-serve cannabis, for medicinal purposes only...

 

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[forcebwithu 4,745]

WTF, no idea why the driver of this bus thought it was a good idea to park on the footpath.

79 Mookata has only been open a few weeks and they're already expanding.