i claudius

the pie man, you know the guy with his wife goes around on motorbike selling cornish pasties, his pies are the best i have tried and im wondering where to get these from .

also while imm here and dont want to start another thread about food, i went into ( think its jollies ) fish n chips on soi lenkee last night, was quoted 399 baht for fish supper. day light robbery. anywhere else do a nice fish supper for a reasonable price ?

yes his pies are really good,but only see him from time to time

After having dealings years ago with the British embassy as I have always said ,it is staffed by paper shufflers third class ,backed up by paper clip counters second class

But Is Maprachan full now? or will we still have water shortages ?

Doc Martin season 7 has now started on pb

Tesco here in Pattaya is a waste of space,they are always out of everything as far as I can see its just poor management and ordering anything populR is out of stock half the time

In Russia LGBT propaganda is banned only among children.

Lie. You cannot even hold up a sign saying gay is OK anywhere in public in Putin's dictatorship.

NOW you know that I don't care if you are straight gay ,wear rubber pyjamas to bed or beat each other with sticks of rhubarb,in your sex lives ,but why promote it? Why gay pride marches why hold up a sign saying gay is ok ,? To be honest its got to the stage where you have to be so bloody pc that us straight folk are afraid to speak our minds any longer,I personally think its so wrong that a gay couple can adopt children,and I am sick of it being put on the tv and what I think is that if two men or two women want to live together and have sex then ok. But keep it private , and as for that old fart Elton John ,I wish he would just f. Ck off,to his toyboy and keep his gob shut

Hi jingthing

So yet again the Muslims did it

Fat boy on his high horse again is he,just get back to the piano Elton

Also while not careing one way or another about a person's sexuality,I think a disgrace that an old man and his husband/wife? Are allowed to adopt children when grandparents are denied

what a load of hypocrite christians overhere, they all forget to treat their fellow humans with some dignity. they are not better then the terrorists in the world

What just like the Muslims do ?don't make me laugh

Just watched a film called extinction , after the first five minutes there are virtually only three people and a dog in it , there are some "zombies " but not much basically its the world has ended a guy and his 9 year old daughter live in a house surrounded by wire fencing , and a guy and his dog live opposite in a house surrounded by wire fencing and they never talk ,the earth is covered in snow . sound boreing , its not , the wife and i really liked it there is a twist at the end ,i guessed it and was wrong . try it you wont be dissapointed.

I think for westerners like myself who have homes and familly here and have been around for years ,things will stay the same, as for border runners i cannot say as i have never had to do it.

Ah the weekly "Is Pattaya Dead" thread. I was getting worried that no one was going to ask the question (again).

There are plenty of tourists but as has been pointed out many times before, most seem to be of the "don't spend money" type. I suspect a lot of them buy packaged tours in their home country, probably haven't travelled much at all on their own (ever) and are reluctant to "stray" from the beaten path. They arrive in Thailand, get bused to their hotel, get escorted to their meals, escorted to the sights included in their package (or added on at the hotel), stay in the hotel afterwards (again - reluctant to go out on their own in a strange land) and then boom ! Back on the bus to the airport and back home.

There are some more well-heeled, experienced travellers from those same countries out and about on their own or in small groups, much like the "Western" tourists, but it seems the majority are the low-spending tour group types. I talk to my friends every week and go down to Walking Street once every week or so as well. Sit in a mostly empty bar (with a couple other expats) and watch hordes of tourists go by, not spending a baht on anything.

(Although rumour has it that some tourists, especially from one country in particular, are quite fond of certain establishments that have "shows" of an "explicit" nature. Those tourists often have to pay a special "membership" fee to get in though, otherwise it is unlikely they'd actually buy anything.)

Same in a lot of the restaurants. I see "Western" tourists/expats, usually with a significant "other" (of the short or long time or married kind) but few of those "other" tourists. That has been going on though for quite awhile before the Bangkok bombing and I doubt has had anything to do with the Red/Yellow problems in the past or the "coup" either.

It's simply that where there used to be throngs of free-spending Euro/Scando/American/Canadian/Australians, there are now throngs of Indians/Chinese/Japanese/Koreans that are somewhat "thriftier". Why ? Poor economies at home. Rising prices. Different mindset of the newer generations. Rising prices (less "spendable" income).

Perhaps the conflicts going on in various places are just making some people wary of travelling anywhere these days.

I've also noticed over the last 20+ years I've been visiting/living in Pattaya that things change all the time. Fads come, fads go. Tourists come, tourists go. 5 years from now the place may be over run by Greeks flush with bail-out money or maybe Libyans/Algerians/Tunisians flush with cash from undisclosed sources. Girls might start getting skinnier again. They might start wearing those ridiculous 6" high platform shoes again (shoes, sandals, boots - everything had at least 6 inches of platform), laser pointers might come back in fashion (lets hope NOT), braces may go out of style along with tramp stamps and boob jobs (let's hope the boob jobs continue) !

Another way to tell Pattaya isn't dead is the TRAFFIC. Frik ! I used to be able to whiz along Sukhumvit, turn up Boonsamphan and zip over the railway crossing at any time of the day/night without hardly any delays. Same for going downtown on a weekend evening. We used to ride the big bikes downtown all the time because there wasn't much traffic.

Nowadays I try and go up Boonsamphan (or along the railway bypass) anytime between 2pm-6pm and it's gridlocked. It's taken me (some days) 25 minutes to do a trip I used to do in 7. We rarely take the big bikes downtown anymore because you end up stuck in traffic and taking 3-4 times longer to get where you are going than if you used a scooter (or moto-taxi).

Weekends are worse and holiday weekends are ridiculous. I almost wish Pattaya was dead just so the traffic would ease off. Another way to tell it isn't dead is the fact the place isn't a deserted ghost town. Think about it. If business was so bad there'd be 10's (hundreds ?) of thousands out of work. They wouldn't be sticking around long as most don't have enough money to survive long without a pay cheque. They'd be packed up and gone to Bangkok, or Chiang Mai or wherever the prospects looked better in a heartbeat.

I dont know if you noticed ,but the reason for the traffic jams is the fact that most of Sukhumvit is blocked due to roadworks , just to let you know .

It might be low season but in 24 years I have not seen it so quiet on beach road,I know the main bars there are busy ,but they always are,always have been ,people watchers sit there

Is it just me or does Pattaya seem far quieter than it has been for years, just came back from Central and the only people around seem to be day trippers ,very few tourists ,

Its got to the stage where if a property

is way overpriced the wife refuses them now, its just not worth the bother as there are so many properties at the right price that don't sell,its stupid to put up the price ,the Russians are selling in their droves, but as the old saying goes ,location ,location ,location, those in the right area rent and sell well.

You obviously do no night driving

My wife's agency gets 5,,% they have more property on their books than you can shake a stick at,best of luck to anyone trying to sell or rent it themselves,a hard sell here in Chonburi ,still she makes quite a lot of money at it,but for every 50 properties they take on they sell one,its not like the west more property than buyers or renters here ,also some developers even pay 7%.

Everything is in my wife's name,we have a son of 22 , and are still as happy as Larry, I never even think about it

I get them as well,especially when I walk past the pole dancers in walking street Pattaya.

Sorry just couldn't resist

Lots in villa,tops tesco

For any of you zombie lovers z nation is back

Madonna who refuses to play gigs in Russia due to an anti-gay propaganda law. Yet has no problem performing in Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death.

They pay more in Saudi

Drove. Past earlier saw a lot of guys sitting on the floor,nothing else

You mean grandma Maddona,,ok if you like 59 year old sex queens