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Yes ,Ian, great guy. Old hands. Colin is quiet , runs his agency well. I’ve had the best boat trips from him, and a mine of knowledge. You get what you pay for .

I would not have recommended these 2 if they were as you described!! They are good compagnies , not cheap vans. Comfortable mini buses as we have in the west or at airports. They are not vans !!! The drivers are quiet and professional. The 999 is rubbish compared and drops you off at the dock , you have to make your own long way to your hotel/ guesthouse. Otherwise fly !!! But you still have to have onward travel.

So if I understand right, you are in Pattaya. Contact Colin at CocoDeeBoKohChang , he uses a local Koh Chang drivers mini bus . I always use him. Look online . They pick you up at your home in Pattaya and drop you off at the hotel of your choice on Koh Chang….ferry included. They are serious not Kami kaz like Pattaya. Or, IAN , at iamkohchang , same sort of service , both professional, Ian has a guest house too. Both are great Brits . Used them for 15 years + google both.

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I didn’t know there was a minibus. I know there’s an airport bus every half hour I think , is it called a smart bus . Whatever , traffic is horrendous.

Just have a blood test checking glucose etc. Tell the laboratory you’re worried about too much sugar.Easy test and cheap. Mine was ok but I was advised to cut out Rapid Suger, like honey, suger, and anything with suger in. In supermarkets look on the labels. Ideally you should have less than 100 g daily. You can’t believe the rubbish we eat/ drink not knowing the outcome. Dont hesitate, fix fast. Eat a balanced diet, eggs , veg + protein, careful with fruit , it has a lot of suger. Careful eating Thai food, it’s crammed with suger.

Volkswagen , That was back then. Now they’re all plastic like the others.

That’s what happened in Bangkok a while ago, the foreign guy couldn’t open the sliding door, so smashed the whole 7/11 up and walked off as if nothing happened. I don’t know if he was caught, hopefully, it was all on camera. Crazy !

Where do they do this ? What animals ?

I think you are very wrong. You can hunt ?? Who do you mean, common folk, tourists , can hunt. ? Hunt means pursue and kill . Maybe you can do that in Africa where you pay to go hunting. In my opinion, disgusting. I think you mean Tracking …

You’re mistaken, that’s Kata Beach Phuket .

It’s very hard to see who is , or not, an unwelcome tourist at immigration. Most people are dressed tidily and behave themselves. It won’t help to reduce the duration of Visa exempt entry either . Everyone can always get a 30 day extra at immigration. What is needed is police on the streets. Especially at night. One or two police boxes strategically placed, and a small shop selling safe helmets at a reasonably expensive price. That would stop most of the idiots without , including Thais. Breathalyzers would help too, save some tragic accidents even for expats and mostly law abiding residents.

Pipe Dreams, only Pipe Dreams. it is not Thailand who decides how, where or when. For the moment the FI1 calendar is capped…..24 races per season is already pushing the limits. Rumeurs , Bangkok Thailand at Chatuchak street race., 2028.Red Bull. Saudi Arabia, South Africa,West Africa,South Korea, Turkey, Chicago, Japan,London, Hungary.Colombia, India. The list is long and everyone wants it.

Really ?in a restaurant of this size and the difficulties of getting the ingredients/ wine and staff, who could ever give an opening date ? With my partner we have opened 5 restaurants in France from scratch, and have never been able to give an opening date until 3/4 days before. And that’s in a country where you have the experts for design and installations, and also the head chef, 2 nd chef and the rest of the team present.

True, 60s and 70s I was in the Uk,and loads of people around me were takings things like LSD , and lots of smokes. In all those years , which were often quite free and wild, I only heard of one person who had died after falling from a balcony after taking LSD. I don’t think things were “ doctored” in those days. Today, it’s especially dangerous as people are mixing up these lethal drugs at home.

You can educate children without hitting or hurting them . My best friends when I was a little kid came from poverty. Hand me down clothes and they ate twice as much as us in school dinners.Poor as church mice as we said then. But… well mannered and kind kids , never trouble to anyone , they were the nicest kids in my class, and my best friends.

I should hope that it/means all children should be protected , not only from parents , but teachers or anyone.

I think at 17;she is much too young. Has she studied and passed all her exams that will enable her to enter med school or training. I doubt that very much.

Everyone was frightened, the medical world too. The reaction was normal. It was something no one in our lifetime had every experienced.

I don’t know about other people, I myself caught Covid twice , the first was very weak short experience, the second time really bad, and I’ve had a dry cough every since that my doctor says is common for those who have had Covid. Lots of people around me died , and the hospitals , as everywhere , were crowded with ill people. So we’re all mad ? Covid never existed ? Just as the Black Death and the Spanish flu, it was real.Todays medical world handled it better, that’s all, even though they weren’t prepared . The nutcases and conspiracy people are those that are in denial.

Have you forgotten the 1976 student massacre ??? Thailand hasn’t.

The true story is, the officials had too many Singapore Slings, and hence the mixed up photographs . Well, any better suggestions ?

Do you qualify as nice ? Doesn’t sound like from your posts.

What a load of tripe.Smart Brits are working hard and getting on with life. I don’t know where you came from, but my Brit friends and family are doing very well thank you. Come have a look where I live near the Cap D Antibes in S of France. Most of the 100 million euro houses / mansions are owned by Brits, and the yachts in the port are mostly flying the Union Jack. There’s a reason why Thailand attracts a lot of low class idiots. They can rent bikes for cheap, drugs on every street corner, cheap girls and restaurants. No way they can get that elsewhere!