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Attended in 2011, very moving. Also went to the other cemetery across the river in the evening to coincide with UK time and some Korea and Malaysia veterans laid a wreath. There was a woman who was visiting her fathers grave in the cemetery for the first time and they passed the wreath to her to lay. Not a dry eye amongst the small group of us. Lest we forget

Molly Malones in Convent Road always did a great Sunday carvery, haven't been there for a while but is worth a try.

Still look miserable, even after getting their belongings back, do Russians ever look happy?

Perhaps there is a misunderstanding of what the word "fluency" means.

Yeah, they mistook it for "currency" which I'm sure they'd understand within six months!

In the article they don't say anything about the Baddies being found

So,in the accompanying article............

who's the guy in the yellow shirt ?

Is he a 'goodie' or a 'baddie' ?

As he appears to be pointing to his head, I would imagine he's the son who's mentioned as being punched in the head.

I'm sure those mocyc taxi's had the day of their life, beating up a foreigner with the approval of BIB.

Total rubbish. The truth is, there's a sizeable force of moco taxi drivers in Pattaya who are official / documented police volunteers. One guy (about 35 yrs old) helps me enormously with all sorts of errands / finds tradesmen and more when I go to Pattaya to tend some personal matters. He's a highly intelligent and logical guy, no education at all but taught himself to speak quite good English, highly reliable, I've often trusted him with large sums of cash, never ever had a problem, very balanced, doesn't drink, devoted to his wife and kids and wants to do something positive for his community.

He's about as interested in beating up a farang as driving to the moon.

Must admit, the moto taxis at the top of LK Metro have always been fine with me and my mates. Remember when the floods were in Pattaya last year, they got they're mate out wih his pickup to get me from Pratumnak down to LK Metro. One of them who knew were my apartment was came in the truck to pick me up. Always took the journey slowly as well, no trying to break land speed records either, it's like anything, some very good, some ok and a few give the rest a bad name.

There's something repugnant with anyone who applauds someone receiving the death penalty, regardless of the crime. The punishment should fit the crime, yet state murder never does!

Italian on soi 11 is fantastic, called Limoncello, you get a lot of Thai people in there. It does close for a few hours in the afternoon after lunchtime. On your left about 500 metres down from sukhumvit.

Try asking First Class Visa (they have a desk inside the Queen Victoria Inn in Soi 6) if they will take you to the border. They do a visa rune into Laos and may like to fill an empty seat.

Just an idea.

I did a visa run to Laos from the Queen Vic, it was the most terrifying experience of my life. I know the driving standards are different to the UK etc, but you couldn't relax due to the speed and some of the overtaking the driver was doing.Saying that, it was a well run trip regarding accomodation and getting the visa etc.

After the recent celebrations regarding the Queen in the UK I can only add to the comments posted regardng the recovery of the King.

Best wishes to the King.

For me the best is http://www.skyscanner.net/

Always use it as a starting point.

I broke my kindle last year, was annoyed as I had about 40 books on it. I found an free app on line and downloaded it to both my laptop and netbook, as I was registered I was able to save all my books to both of them as well. Can purchase diretc from Amazon in exactly the same way as with a kindle.

Here's a link if you can't find a kindle to buy.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

Count yourself lucky, I transferred £25k from the Halifax last year and made the mistake of entering the baht value (which was on an exchange rate site that day) Upon receipt in my thai bank I noticed that the amount they took out of my UK amount was almost £28k to meet the thai baht value. Only then did I notice that I had the option to have it converted when the £25k reached my thai bank which would have saved me the £3k. Only made that mistake once

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Ah..another 'I'm more important than you' farang'. Any takers for him being a Brit?

Turns out he was one of those "nice" Irish people, you know the ones that refer to us as Brits in a derogatory way. Typical a load of people liked your post because it had a pop at British peolple, probably still wearing their Gunness hats after celebrating the plastic paddies day.