Ciocco

We use always the same taxi driver located in Bkk, he have a huge taxi (blus/red coloured) where we can find space for our heavy luggages.

We always was asked for 2500 (including gas and express way toll fees) but we often tip for the very excellent service provided, expecially going back.

Usually he come here from Bangkok to pick up us (sometime he was around here for job) at around 2 pm, driving to Bkk where we usually stop for a last dinner (and meeting with mom in law) until 7 or 8 pm. He wait us outside and then he drive us to the airport, sometime bringing back mom in law in the city.

A very "customized" service tailored on our needs, who sometime is 8 hours long... for the same amount, more tip.

We are really happy about.

If u need the number, just ask...

And he is not in charge. Watch your back mate. If he shouts fire, who knows which way the bullets will be flying. Certainly Thailand will be flying up the UN's list of oppressive regimes and even onto US sanctions lists.

PAD, the people who wrested power from the People on the premise they were too stupid to vote, through mob rule and army control by their elite backers are now coming back on to the street to ensure that the power is not returned through the ballot box.

Can I have accurate soundbite of the day for that please on the BBC?

Nice organisation and I am not surprised they are disguising themselves as multi colourted protesters.

Once the yellow shirts go on, then the army will split.

Don't feed the trolls...

It's just people burning the weeds off their fields or empty lots......happens every year.

Thank you,

but probably it run away from theyr hands... i seen thousand of trees burned on hills and hills.

looks like Papua New Guinea...

Today, coming back for Bangkok to Hua Hin we seen a lot of smog on the orizon once approaching Cha Am (after the intersection to go Prachuap).

Along the street a lot of countryside was burned, still smoking, also hills with thousands of trees...

This a few kilometers before and after Cha Am...

No fire, just smoke, like if the big fire it was few days ago... also a heavy smell in the air...

Someone seen the same?

ciao,

ciocco

The poll question of this morning on Bangkok Post show very well what foreigner think about riots and red shirts.

Send them home, also with force if requested...

Yes, not all BP readers are farangs... true... as 100.000 or 1 ml red shirts are not representative of 60ml Thais...

I agree also, time is over, time to send them home and in the prisons who break the democracy Laws.

If Thailand need to stay in the present.

Don't need to be a fine politic analist to understand that this Government is however regularly in charge, not because our farang opinion but because Thai Constitution and Thai Law.

I always afraid by people who try to do his business going agaist the Courts who condamned them... too easy...

Protester is someone who use all the lawful way to show hid disappoint or disagreement. Gandhi was a peaceful man, nothing to do with these people.

Of course Yellow done wrong also, but this cannot be a license for to do the same or worst in the present days. Not at all.

Someone who enter in the Parliament House wearing weapont (a stone or a rifle is not important) is not a protester, is a BANDIT.

And as a bandit have to be treated.

I hope no blood will flow, but is not possible to allow similar things.

Not if this Country want to live in the present time.

My 5 cents.

Ciocco, why you don't want believe? And I consult don't listen a Thai which don't work on the border.

If you come from Hua Hin you have 2 possibilities turn right to the Singkhon Pass, one is a small road with many holes and this about 10 km after Prachuap KK ist the good way.

I make this turn very often with my guests from abroad. The only what I have seen is that the right belt now is well made with asphalt and the answer I got direct from the border office you can see above. As I know the only official way to Myanmar is near Tak, maybe Mae Sai but there you don't can go far.

Beside Singkhon have 2 Immigration, 1st 10 km before you turn left to Singkohn Pass and one on Singkhon Pass self but he not and I never see open, only the new custom office building.

Because of criminality and some military I consult you to fly until now.

Good to know,

thank you,

ciocco

Driving south from Hua Hin to Chumpon i saw the route label for Myammar, i always curious about if possible to go or not...

A close thai friend told me that is possible to enter just with permission and, as someone of you already wrote, not for tourists/foreigner.

Also he told me it is very difficult to move beyond the border dual of the bad streets. Also it looks like if it is impossible to buy gasoline not having "gasoline vouchers" (seems like if isn't possible to pay cash for fuel... but this sound very strange).

Do not forget that foreigners can stay/drive/move inside Myammar just on scheduled date and places who have to be communicated to Police and subjected to be refused.

Usually it's me... i started cooking at 13... veeery young, being a Chef at around 23...

me too sometime i suspect she married me because my cooking

for sure friends (both europeans and thais) they love this also!!

She can cook for herself but if she do i cannot eat quiet nothing because she love spicy, sour and sweet, too much for my opinion.

More infos here

http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/...;nodeid=1875150

Italian newspapers and different websites talk about the possible 4 days strike from Lufthansa Cockpit sindacate.

Talking about 60% of cancelled flights on the 1800 daily fleet flights...

Anyone have more informations?

A close friend leaving tomorrow from Florence/Frankfurt/Bangkok has already been changed via Munchen... but calling Lufthansa offices nothing looks clear...

cheers,

ciocco

Hello everybody,

am Claudio (Ciocco) from Florence, Italy, 47 years old.

Am a chocolate producer married from 3 years with a Thai wife. We live in Europe, coming in Thailand 3 time per year and living in Hua Hin.

Thanks for all the informations you allowd to share on this forum,

as i will enjoy your informations please feel free to ask back if you need.

All the best,

Ciocco

All this rumors for 250 euro in the pockets... oh God!!

Also someone who think his "kids" have to go around with cash with them... am wondered...

Looks like to look for the hair in the egg...

250 euro... o a few more dollars... or a few less pounds...

WE already was walking ATM for some kind of Thai people... what are you worried about?

cheers,

ciocco

"Nana" was discussed at length towards the beginning of the thread.

Try Googling something like... "Nana's Italian Restaurant" or "Nana's Ristorante" and see how many hits you get.

BUT....

"Mazzia" doesn't sound Italian to you?

Please tell me what other language makes fairly common use of the double "z" ??

And...Yes, it happens to be my family name.

My great-grandparents are from Piemonte, Italia.

My grandmother, who my entire family referred to "Nana", is a direct cousin of Salvatore Ferragamo.

That's not Italian enough for you?

....Italians....

But it is interesting to know that "nana" in Tuscany means "duck".

Please note i was just giving you my impression about the use of "italian" names on labelling.

Is ok, if you used to call your nonna "nana" and am sure it sound very italian for you, but i was meaning about what others people feel about italian names.

I guess Mazzia was a family name, nothing to say about, but thinking you are looking for an italian name to use as a brand i thought you was looking also for something who make immediately understanding the italian origin of your idea...

Just to make a stupid example, Rossini looks italian also for a chinese people... Pinocchio (also if more easy to find Pinoccio) also...

Also "Salsa" is today a tipical italian name who immediately make you thinking at sauces.

Walking abroad (we italians) we use to smile (a kind way to say laughting) looking the "italian-looking-brand" we see everywhere, expecially on fashion shops. Often is just a fake like Ammani, Varentino, or similar, sometimes grammar mistakes like Cabonara, Putanesca, Pinoccio, Sirocco etc, sometime more just fantasy name like Roccia, Casa del Mare, etc etc.

I understand that probably it is enough to recall at mind the italian beauty or design or kitchen... but sound funny for us.

Am sure you need a brand who is a trade union between your product, your name and your italian recipes... but am not able to suggest nothing about this, just to give you my impression from the side of an italian customer who walk in a Villa market and look at the labels around him.

ciao,

ciocco

Hello,

am the last arrived, so probably i cannot say nothing on this...

But are you sure about italian words you used?

I mean... grandma is NONNA not NANA... (here in Tuscany, in Arezzo province, Nana it mean duck...)

Also MAZZIA for me italian have no meaning... if a family name it dont sound particularly italian also...

I understand the english speaking people use to associate to italian all the "similar-word-who-sound-italian..." but... but...

Also undertsanding that probably the Customers you are looking are not italians but others foreigners for the reasons you already explained.

Saluti,

ciocco

A Carrefour would have been so much better! If you have been to Carrefour Rama IV, you will know what I mean. There is already a Big C in Phetchaburi and I agree with hhfarang, it's nothing much than Tesco, which is already nothing much in itself.

Yes!

If i can choose i would prefer a Carrefour, they are really experienced with european import and sure cheaper than Villas...

ciocco

Any news?