downtown

reluctantly i'd say the sunee, the best of a bad lot. as others have said book early - there has been a lot of negative reviews on the well known reviews website regards booking being forgotten or rates being raised. my biggest complaint is the lousy service there.

that said, for gawds sake dont go to the nevada hotel. a shame because 10 years ago it was great - now in a very, very sorry state

^who cares about HIS family? unbelieveable. that said, your post is provoking. i work with people with severe mental health problems and i always say that the real dangerous people of society are the "normal" ones who go out to get smashed at the weekend and beat the crap out of someone

so yet another place that perpetuates the dual - pricing system? wonderful.

^thanks

friends of my wife are thinking of moving back to Thailand from the UK. the mum is Thai and the father British. they have a daughter who doesnt have Thai Passport or even Thai birth certificate. will there be problems with the child living in Thailand in terms of visa or being allowed to reside there at all

thanks

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i want M Night Shyamalan to do the movie ^

haha a story from my missus the other day reminds me why i tend not to speak. the other day she was in the park in the town we live in the uk, with my daughter, when she got talking a fellow mum. the lady said he father, sat nearby, had lived in thailand for 18 years. so my missus presumed he'd been a businessman or something. but no he'd done 18 years hard time for drug smuggling. he then comes over and starts speaking thai to my missus and tells her to live inside prison...a complete stranger telling personal stuff like this i can do without

Sorry some more B/S do you think a Brit would do 18years in a Thai jail, after a short period maybe 5 years they are shipped back to UK or released on one of many of the King's yearly pardons.

sorry theres more. apparently, his original term was 30 years, deduced to just 18 years

deduced? duh "reduced"

haha a story from my missus the other day reminds me why i tend not to speak. the other day she was in the park in the town we live in the uk, with my daughter, when she got talking a fellow mum. the lady said he father, sat nearby, had lived in thailand for 18 years. so my missus presumed he'd been a businessman or something. but no he'd done 18 years hard time for drug smuggling. he then comes over and starts speaking thai to my missus and tells her to live inside prison...a complete stranger telling personal stuff like this i can do without

Sorry some more B/S do you think a Brit would do 18years in a Thai jail, after a short period maybe 5 years they are shipped back to UK or released on one of many of the King's yearly pardons.

sorry theres more. apparently, his original term was 30 years, deduced to just 18 years

haha a story from my missus the other day reminds me why i tend not to speak. the other day she was in the park in the town we live in the uk, with my daughter, when she got talking a fellow mum. the lady said he father, sat nearby, had lived in thailand for 18 years. so my missus presumed he'd been a businessman or something. but no he'd done 18 years hard time for drug smuggling. he then comes over and starts speaking thai to my missus and tells her to live inside prison...a complete stranger telling personal stuff like this i can do without

Good for Air Asia I get fed up with this crap about liquids, pastes, gels bazookas, mortars etc etc, no really its a freakin pain, then you get the rip off 70 baht for water once you pass though security, bloody big scam.

my dad, on one of his trips to thailand, went through swampy security with his swiss pocket knife in his bumbag, and went through no probs, which is reassuring

dont worry theres always the next life

so has he been teaching for 3o years and can barely speak english? scary

village folk deserve better but cant seem things changing in my lifetime.

vettel was bang out of order with his antics. got a lot of time for webber, even for an aussie...

Short update.Just came back from Nareen today to enroll our son there. I was talking to them again and it turned out that four out of six applicants didn't show up, or were not interested.

Err - yes - schools here usually do ask random foreigners if they would like to teach English. Ive been asked by two.

fantastic then! must be a highly acclaimed school of serious academic rigour.

This is for people who're looking for a job. How much do you know about Thai schools and hiring foreigners to teach English? Was there again today, four out of six applicants didn't shop up.

Teaching positions still available. Please just go there with your resume and give it a try.

i taught efl for 4 years in Thailand so yes I do no what im talking about. i would love nothing more to return to thailand and specifically ubon but cannot until something is done about the shambloic state of the education system. picking foreigners who happen to be native speakers is not the answer. it never fails to make me laugh when i see words like "international" and "british curriculum" banded about in a obvious attempt to wow the punters. the only *true* international school in issan is St Stephens and their fees are comparable to anything you'll pay in the UK

^yes and my idea of hell would be living in bkk/patts but each to their own eh?

Pattaya is a shithole.

20,000 prostitutes. Open sewers. Filthy beach. No Culture The scum of the western world . German and Russian mafia, Brit and Irish scumbags.

Good for old fat sex tourists who want to shag uneducated farm girls.

That’s it ..............

dont forget yocal yanks chewing bacon instead of gum

Err - yes - schools here usually do ask random foreigners if they would like to teach English. Ive been asked by two.

fantastic then! must be a highly acclaimed school of serious academic rigour.

^yes and my idea of hell would be living in bkk/patts but each to their own eh?

sounds suspicious. does the school usually go around asking ramdom foreigners to teach at the school with the supposed British curriculum?

im up for a circumcision

^looks like a prawn.

this would be very good news. the total lack of anything resembling a decent hospital is one of the main things that put me off moving to ubon

thats a real shame. ate there on holiday jan last year - superb green curry. went there last month one evening and it was shut at 7PM

I have 3 jobs, 32 and counting chickens, 17 ducks, countless fish, 4 dogs, 2 cows, fields of rice, lotus and chilis, in the middle of building a house with another coming early next year, teaching local kids English, gossiping with the local elders, 1 child with one on the way......finally have a day off (a day to myself) and am bored.

Life here is what you make of it. I have friends who sit in a bar picking up the same girls every night with the same old stories and they are as happy as can be. They think I am crazy for working so hard. I think they are crazy living it up every night.

As for the food. some of the best food in the world is prepared here in Nong Khai region of Isan. Som Tam poo bpa lah, Som Tam Laos, Plaa Hange (dried fish), Khanom Cheen, khao niao and moo ping, plaa dtin, plaa tort, those funny half developed chicken eggs cooked in a steamer (gluak, i think), fried chicken feet, cow intestines steamed in sweet sauce.....yummy!

You have a better stomach than me, can't eat half developed chicken eggs, not big on chicken feet and no way can I eat raw water Buffalo dipped in that red hot chilli. Other things ok, but tend to get the wife to cook with olive oil and garlic, has some flavor then.

Sticky rice is ok, but would rather have potatoes or sweet potatoes, yams etc.

Strange as it may seem, family all love the westernized way of cooking things, they would rather eat a chicken soup with a chicken that has been dead for more than 10 minutes and carved up not hacked to pieces with an axe, no bones.Jim

As a PS people eat mushrooms that are poisonous, they have built up an immunity to them, will make you or me very sick or dead. We had a family of 3 [ Thai ] die here from eating poisonous mushrooms last year, be careful in what you eat.

reminds me of a few years ago on the isle of wight. one woman died and another lady seriously ill. my wife said "stupid english people dont know the difference"..no actualy they were Thai

me, wifey and daughter had a few weeks in ubon in nov/dec came back to england a fortnight ago. everyday since weve been back, its rained and it doesnt get light till 8am and dark again by 3pm. i cant tell you how depressing it is. if things were different, wish we were all back in ubon

on our last trip to ubon we had a very nice meal at a restaurant. didnt catch the name of the place. all i remember was it was near the psychiatric hospital but more memorably, it had a gaint kids slide outside, from a first floor to the ground. most of the tables were outside but there was some private rooms inside.