Assurancetourix

You sent me a PM two or three days ago ..

What I have to understand ?

I know many farang who never drink alcool and also never smoke..

Selling or not alcool We don't care

Another fruitless visit to Tesco Khon Kaen.

Just got back without any potatoes or onions.

Looks like a visit to Makro tomorrow.

Makro always seems to have plenty.

What's your problem with potatoes ( in Lotasss ) ;

Here we are in Thailand and potatoes aren't the main course ...

Eat stiky rice and you will not have any problem

I have had wine from Chateau de Loei that wasn't bad at all. Rarely see it in the stores, and not cheap either.

yeah,...Chateau de Loei was it !!... I couldn't remember it...My wife and I had a couple bottles of that wine, and that was OK, not top !! but good enough to have with a good meal or on the balcony watching the sunset...it was good enough...

In the North they have those fruit wines, made with those exotic fruits like leechee, Rambutan, Strawberry, pinaples,etc....very sweet....maybe too sweet...!! something like 99. Thb per bottle....you can find them on the border check point at Mae Sai....and on the road to it.

But I would not call them wines, heavy fruit juices is more like it...! interesting tastes dough...

Best regards.

What you wrote with one image shot in front of Mae Fa Luang's arboretum - road 1149

Ratsima - Khonkaen - Udonthanee ( with two " e" , why not ? )

When in Khon Kaen a few days ago

Linfox is a very big Australian truck company ; I saw , a few days ago , was driving my own truck and cannot shoot a photo , a new IVECO articulated ;

as it is working in my province I'm sure I can shoot it in the future .

http://www.linfox.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linfox

I dont know why any of the cars or especially motorbikes have mirrors at all. Hardly ever see anyone use their mirrors, but routinely see people on motorbikes turned around looking over their shoulder to cross traffic.

I know why ....

It's a mobile beauty salon

any photos before and after

I wonder how much of that budget was actually spent on the bridge

Only of the after....

Pic: ThaiRath

2,9 m wide ?

Maybe 1,9 but surely not 2,9 m

Today, my wife and the elephant downhill Phupalek National Park

Maybe in front ( on the opposite side of the road, close to the U-Inn hotel of Sirikit hospital ) , the huge public hospital ;

but if they rent a bicycle maybe the price per day will be high ;

In my little town, Sawang Daen Din, ( Sakon Nakhon province ), Khun Neung who has a shop for modern bikes, rents a bicycle for 500 baht a day !!

Better for you to buy a bicycle or to come from Chiang mai with yours.

A suggestion :

why not going to Khon Kaen from Chiang Mai on your bicycle ?

What am I doing so different? I just don't get these problems with dogs.

Sure they bark, follow and even chase on the odd occasion..... But I never really feel under threat.

I ride in Mae Taeng, all offroad, so the dogs are bush and village dogs, not Soi.

I adopted a mates way of dealing with the dogs, I try and make friends with them, most you can, some never will. This approach has paid off over the years as I have found a small dog biscuit works better than a stick. However I understand this my not work everywhere and with every dog.....

Living in E_San, I speak with them;

my favorite phrase is :

" Bo kin farang, bo sep "

Village or bush dogs aren't a problem but I don't like they run with me because they can stop just in front of my bicycle and I can fall down so I prefer to send to them some water from my plastic bottle .

Same same but different copy, copy again…

The only really Thai ingredient is the pounded dried chillies.[/size]

Wrong ; Before the year 1505 there was no chillies in Thailand ;

They came with the Portugese navigators ;

before 1505 thai people used to use พริกไทย = " prick thai " = pepper

So there is nothing thai inside a pad thai

Maybe they pick the idea in France ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurants_du_C%C5%93ur

Cycling about 1200 to 1500 kilometers each month with my MTB ,

what I do with dogs who wants to run with me..:

use your water plastic bottle as a pistol and send a little bit water to them ..

they will stop immediatly to run ..

And it's free ..But don't say that to the good general, he wants we save water ..

Give the folder to Surat Thani police......especially the Koh Tao squad

they will find scapegoat(s) and enter into a murder

Focus on SUGAR.

Exact;

maybe another crackdown on TV publicities ?

On thai public TV, yesterday, they said the driver of the red car is a soldier;

so he is a 26 y old teenager soldier

Thank you FR

and for those who have a little purse , like me there is a new Bridge Panasonic which replaces the FZ 200, it's the FZ 300 which is tropicalised ; 600 euros in France .

I have the Panasonic FZ200 and it's not tropicalised; ; I didn't knew before buying it ; in fact I didn't pay attention ;

and in Thailand if a camera isn't tropicalised it's a big Katrastrophe ;

so much dust, evrywhere ...

http://thenewcamera.com/category/panasonic/

thais love camping

farangs not so much as hotels are just to cheap and best camping spots are not accessible unless u have ur own transport.which most tourists do not have.

used to see them in the 80's in Koh Samet but not any since

Right but 99% of them are at the top of mountains in National parks where you can go with your tent or rent it at the rangers ;

" and achieved by ZERO "

not really;

officially 91 dead

unofficially more than 700 dead

and some collaterals damage with the fall due to the ghosts of two military helicopters in Kanchanaburi province

I wonder why you dislike him.

May 19th of 2010 , remember

... Out of interest, how mush would you expect to pay for this medical care?

30 baht a year like a thai people

or maybe zero baht like a soldier in Thailand

seriously if you go to a public hospital the bill is never steep , even you take the drugs there; at the hospital pharmacy .

100.000 baht a month ! why not a million baht a week ?

Are you in the Rothschild family ?

I live here, in E-San with my wife , one child and ..... seven dogs with less than 25.000 baht a month ;

I know many farang from various nationality, some of them have good or very good income and they live like me .

No need to have much money to live here.

And about illness or medical problems, I have resolved the thing, I have no health insurance ;

Public hospital or the crematorium ...of the nearest Wat ;

U can have the best and expensive medical insurance, ;

when it's time to go....

Just come out of the production line!

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Now, I can understand " brakes fail "