ChipButty

It is a nice neighbourhood to live, Im not sure which soi that guy lives but it nearby, everybody in our soi keeps the place clean and tidy no mad parties, we have had no influx of Chinese in this area I think the are mainly in hotels, I dont see many.

Stop ripping the tourist off I feel sorry for them, us old timers we know the score I went in a restaurant a while back I was going to have a beer and when I looked on the menu 160 baht for a bottle of chang. As a tourist it's a constant battle, Dont get me started on 5 star hotels, food and drink over the top

Rumblings in my area from locals are not good, there is a lot of Russians here, Im now starting hear Thai's complaining one of the things they are doing is renting villas and then sub letting or part letting, I know of one case now and the owner is not happy, he let his 2 bedroom pool villa, there is now 12 Russians living there and they are partying every night people turning up all night long, loud music, now the neighbours are complaining, He tells me he has called the agent and they are not interested which is normal down here, the owner obviously is not wanting to confront 12 drunk Russians.

Well that was a close shave

Roman Abramovich is one of them

In my case it's been 23 years,

That nonsense on Trip advisor I dont think the hotel came out smelling of roses, even though I think the American guy was wrong.

Tchaikovsky was a great Russian musician during the romantic period

Here is their YT channel https://www.youtube.com/@b2band

United cannot control games,

Russian Honorary Consulate in Phuket Thailand, Last year comrade Lavrov paid a visit

Should be Farewell Comrades

There will be another bunch of Russians in the news again shortly this time for kidnapping,

Must be a few Filipino's on the island they cant all have WP

I did see them being advertised on Facebook about doing some concert up around the Bang Tao area a few weeks back maybe they were brought over by some agent who promised them everything would be ok, It looks a big band so lots of equipment needed, I looked at their channel on YT over a million subscribers, something has gone wrong here, normally in the past these musicians just get a fine for no WP,

The airlines here in Thailand are milking it also, this weekend Phuket to Bangkok and return upto 18,000 Baht

Belfast please keep up

I remember sitting there one morning outside a coffee shop when I heard this thud when I looked up a fire engine coming along the soi and a young guy had been sitting on the top and the cables across had dragged him off, he didnt get up they had to send for a ambulance,

I saw one guy many years ago in the airport he approached us asking for 500 baht, in the days when you had to pay as you leave, he was a farang

It's ok to drive a truck with kids on the back?

Should have been topless that would have made a better story

COME TO Rawai in Phuket there is a lovely breeze blowing off the ocean, at 7-30 am this morning I had a drive around along the beach road with the windows down really refreshing,

Ex Army will do it,

Free or not, still need a work permit

If you are allowed to put some plants on the balcony, I have a little smoking area out the back of my house and I have 3 pots full of Basil the strong smelling on Holy Basil that works they dont like it, I sit outside most mornings at 4 am there is no mozzies even though I have the lights on, I am also told they dont like Lemon grass,