Burma Bill

And why not? It is a matter of personal choice and I commend Simon for all his charitable work in Burma. There are many persons like Simon who are living in "conflict" countries around the World "doing good" for the local people, especially the young and poor. Congratulations Simon! At one point during my retirement in Thailand, living across the border in Tachilek (Burma) was considered by me as I had Burmese friends there. Thai bureaucratic "officialdom" was the reason, but it never happened, the result of the latest coup, and I relocated to Siem Reap in Cambodia where I live to this day.

Why? Normal behaviour - Pattaya is THE hub for sex tourists, sex perverts and sex-pats!

Hi Simon. Happy New Year, however please take care and try and avoid the genocidal Tatmadaw and its allies.

A "bull" dog?

and sadly got blown off course??

With respect, I have never heard of Soi Yensabi in Chiang Mai. My hotel was in the Chang Phueak district, not far from the RAM Hospital. I do not own a smartphone and that was the reason the hotel ordered food for me, delivered by a motorcycle rider to whom I paid money - double the cost (80 baht) of a similar dish (40 baht) from the local street market. Whatever, this was my first experience of food ordered from an app - never again!

With respect, my bad experience was in Thailand (Chiang Mai) not Cambodia where I never order food by app because I prepere and cook my own (as stated in my post)

"Let me gaze into my crystal ball"!

Yet another high class Pattaya tourist/resident?

Should this read "panic sparks"?

I have no idea which company delivered my food, but recently having arrived late in Chiang Mai from Cambodia, the local street food market was closing and my hotel very kindly used an app to order hot food for me. It arrived after 30 minutes but it was cold, greasey and disgusting. I will never order food using an app again. I prepare and cook all my own food back home in Cambodia.

Sadly, if this was a routine visit to the market, the insurgents would have known and planted their bomb for full effect!

I just completed this quiz. My Score 40/100 My Time 307 seconds  

Good ridddance to these "scrubbers"

My best laugh of the day - so far! I wonder what a certain Belgian tourist would think

Do you accept that Earth is spherical -or- do you believe it is flat How about bipyramid - north pole at top, south pole at bottom?

From TAT to all foreign tourists and residents - "We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas ---etc, etc, etc,!

Great news! IMO Japan - no ghastly sex tourism, no cannabis shops, no robbing ladyboys, no bars full with whinging old fart ex-pats, hardly any scamming of tourists and a genuine welcome! Long may the country stay at the top! No further comment from me.

To check your blood sugar levels, may I suggest the following kit - measuring meter, needle pen and test strips. All available from a good pharmacist. Initially, you could go to your local Government Hospital that has a diabetic clinic where your blood will be tested. I was registered with my local government hospital in Chumphae which supplied my insulin and other associated medication (at a cost, but much less expensive than the private hospitals in Khon Kaen)

For reference wikipedia (not Surat Thani);- Surat (Gujarati: [suɾət]) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

8+ times a day - pale yellow, well hydrated. I am 80 years old. But I do drink a lot (no alcohol) of caffeinated sugar free energy drinks and coffee. I am also diabetic and have an enlarged prostate gland (currently taking medication)

Yet another example of Pattaya's "high class" tourist!

This must have given the police something to chew on!

With respect, not directly but from the OP: "Mr. Chiwun was dropping off a foreign customer at a cannabis shop"

Hope you are now okay Simon. Fortunately, during all my visits to Burma I never got the "Rangoon Runs" but Imodium (as mentioned elsewhere) came to my rescue in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand!