Frank La Rue

On ‎15‎.‎03‎.‎2018 at 12:01 AM, Curt1591 said:

So, are we going to see a PHOTO of this roast?

Yes, it would be appreciable if someone could try the roast out and make a pic to verify Yorksjire pudding or not.........

is "One more bar" the name of the bar? I guess hoping for Yorkshire pudding is hoping for too much? I struggle to find them in Norway but possible in Bangkok, Hua Hin, Patts where you have a lot of British. I think the pubs in Pattaya have them

I used to live in the UK and I truly miss Sunday Roast with Yorkshire pudding, honney glazed parsnips, potatoes and baby carrots. I cannot get it where I live now - is there a british pub restaurant in in Kanchanaburi which caters for this?

Not to ruin your post but its a well known place of somewhat interest mentioned in lonely planet guides for years

I did a search in Lonely PLanet but can't find it. Could you explain how to get there?

THai Num hotel has nice terrrase restaurant towards the river - yo can go there and have only coffee. It also has a club/bar for gentlemen - my wife tells me it provides full service - hence I have never been in there. Used to stay in this hotel when the thai family lived in THa Maka

On Google maps it's listed as Chan Cha La 323 Pak Raet. On the 323 from the direction of Bangkok, just over the rail crossing and about 200m from the traffic lights where a right turn takes you towards Kanchanburi. Lek noodle is nearby and bar 35 on the opposite side of the road.

Can confirm the location, wifey, Kane an I have had lunch there with Derek and family sereral times

Good food , good times

Useful info - Thanks

Isn't Walen school a language school only, i.e. not compliant with curriculum requirements for primary, 2ndary and high school?

My wife, our son and I celebrated with another Thai/Norwegian family at home - we ate a delicious Thai meal prepared by the two ladies whilst our sons played and us tw oguys consumed a couple of beers on the terrase. The weather was perfect for the occasion, about 20 degrees and lightly overcast.

Nonetheless I am looking forward to celebrating 17th of May in Thailand with other Norwegians and friends of Norway of any nationality

i HAVE NEVER STAYED THERE PERSONALLY AND IF THEY KEEP PLAYING IT I WOULD CHECK OUT! Drives crazy, flogged to death.

I am told the Americans brought it with them for their rest and relaxation whilst in Vietnam, maybe they had a deal with the royalties.

Vietnam war ended in 1975. Hotel California recrded first time end of 76 or early 77. Grammy 77,78. So no you are wrong.

It is also one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song's guitar solo is ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine's Top 100 Guitar Solos and was voted the best solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine.

The album was released in 1973 - I know because I listened to it again and again with the girl I wanted to sleep with and she went off and lost her virginity to someone else. I got to keep Hotel California though.

Understandably, you don't remember the release date as well as other details of that experience. They didn't begin recording it until March of '76, and they released it that year.

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FInd the link to Wkipeda here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California

The release date was March 8, 1976 - Man, can love make you blind.

I have to go back and figure out what we were listening to so eagerly autumn 1973, though.

I have found some interesting property developments in Khao Yai / Pak Chong which do not reside in the price range of Tuscany (the latter is 20 Mio Baht and up). The below start at 3 + Mio Baht and up.

http://www.momentokhaoyai.com/index.php

http://www.ddproperty.com/en/new-homes-listing/10448-vincento-khao-yai

http://www.samaneavilla.com/

Thnking of checking them out in July - I'll report back then

Forgot to include this one:

http://www.phuphatara.com/location/

I have found some interesting property developments in Khao Yai / Pak Chong which do not reside in the price range of Tuscany (the latter is 20 Mio Baht and up). The below start at 3 + Mio Baht and up.

http://www.momentokhaoyai.com/index.php

http://www.ddproperty.com/en/new-homes-listing/10448-vincento-khao-yai

http://www.samaneavilla.com/

Thnking of checking them out in July - I'll report back then

i HAVE NEVER STAYED THERE PERSONALLY AND IF THEY KEEP PLAYING IT I WOULD CHECK OUT! Drives crazy, flogged to death.

I am told the Americans brought it with them for their rest and relaxation whilst in Vietnam, maybe they had a deal with the royalties.

Vietnam war ended in 1975. Hotel California recrded first time end of 76 or early 77. Grammy 77,78. So no you are wrong.

It is also one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song's guitar solo is ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine's Top 100 Guitar Solos and was voted the best solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine.

The album was released in 1973 - I know because I listened to it again and again with the girl I wanted to sleep with and she went off and lost her virginity to someone else. I got to keep Hotel California though.

I have not verified this by visiting myself (yet), but as a lover of english food and ale - I have found it advertised on the web site for Butchers Arms

http://www.thebutchersarmspub.com/lounge_bar.html

Soi Bukanov.

I have recently enjoyed my self surfing for Pubs in Pattaya serving Sunday Roast. Along with that I look for Stella Artois, Boddintons and John Smith

I am not English but love English food after having lived many years in Surrey. I love a Sunday roast and is currently soaking up all the information about where to get one in Pattaya area. One question though - do any of these places serve the Roast with honey - glazed parsnips?

They were (are) my absolute favourite to go with the meal - I used to buy them in frozen packs from Tesco when we did Sunday roast at home. Yes, not original and all that but when heating them in the oven I absolutely loved them as an integral part of the meal

Useful link:

http://khaoyaiproperty.com

Now back from Khao Yai /Pakchong. My wife's brother lives in Saraburi with his wife so we started out with a lunch there together. Afterwords he took us via the back roads through Khao Yai. We visited a wine yard and eventually ended up at Paolo - the italian village. On a side note - we alos visited Toscana village the day after, which is all very beautiful but too far out for me. According to the sales office it is habited mainly by Thais from Bangkok. The house prices starts at 21 Mio Baht, including land. There are condo's from 8.5 Mio Baht, so clearly targeting an upmarket clientelle.

We ended up staying in Pakchong Landmark hotel as Challet Hill did not get back to us when we emailed tnem to book 2 rooms. The Pakchong Landmark was so - so, but for sleep and a simple breakfast it did the job.

We ate in the evening in a restaurant not far from the international school, called The Smokehouse. My Brother-in-law had heard about it from a friend but never eaten. It is rather pricey, 290 baht for a pasta dish and 890 Baht for a filet steak. It was quite well visited, mayb 2/3 full. As far as I could see there was one other farang in the restaurant with what seemed to be a thai family, a little bit like my own situation. The rest seemded to be Thai couples or families. The ponit to make is that there must be quite a few people in the area with money, as such a pricey restaurant seems to be doing well there. The meal for 6 grown ups and my little son costed me 4100 Baht, including my filet steak and 2 glases of wine, no deserts.

For comparison we had quite a delicious meal the day after at a thai roadside restaurant not far from there, between clio resort and Paolo, for 340 baht for 5 of us, That excluded any beer or wine but ice water. Obviously the latter is a simple out-door setting, whilst The Smokehouse have set it self up with a posh building, a boutique shop for wines and a decorated restaurant with live band.

We drove along the main road (not the motorway) from Landmark hotel to the night market area just to take a look. and Pakchong seems to have everything you need to stay in the area.

My personal take on it is that I would not stay amongst the hills next to Khao Yai national park as I like to have a bit of view.

As mentioned by someone else here the thing to do may be to find a piece of land in the Pakchong valley itself on the north - eastern side of Pakchong and build.

Looking at the thai internet sites for real estate there seems to be very few houses for sale in the area already built with the exception of som resorts inside of Khao Yai.

Interestingly, I read a trip report from a familiy who had stayed in one of the resorts behind Pakchong in the hill on the north eastern side, and they were complaining about the cold at night and how the blankets were far from enough. Sounds like my kind of climate.

We drove past St. Stephens International School several times on the way between Paolo and the main inter section Saraburi - Nakon Ratchasima /Pakchong Kao Yai.

We did not visit.

I noted that another poster reffered to s "St. James International School". Is that another one or is there just a mix up with the name?

We will go back and take another look around to get a further feel for the area. The first impression is positive

I strongly urge compassionate BMs with accomodation in View Talay from 2nd floor and up to come forward and offer flood relief. Promt action now means that many, many Brothers can drink the flood away without ever noticing that there was a flood. a Flood line may be set up to FLB, QT or even Insomnia with boat service to keep up business as usual. Maybe 3-some up to 10-some becomes a social together with a compassionate conotation where a whole new level of bonding can be felt.

There may even come a new type of fatherhood out of it, instead of being a grand - father you are a "flood farther", i.e a girls got preganant during the flood, no one know for sure who is the father so you all take joint responsability reducing the cost of sponsorship to a fraction of what it is today. There are all sorts of socilological, practical ramifications.

Like the original poster said, they are with their wives.

Appart from that it may be that black socks provides political correctness and pleases the wife in ways I, Frank La Rue, just cannot understand - but who am I to define pleasure for other people in general and women elsewere in the galaxy?

In my time there was 3 songs with the Carpenters in the Englis posjon ov Songbook:

- I say Goooobay to luv

- top of the Woold

. Pleeze miste posman

And they had the machine to show singing in tune or out of tune on the screen.

I remember I scored 67% in Krungsri River Hotel in Ayutthaya singing "I say goobai to luv" and then took her up to my loom,

Yup Hotel California, Zombie and Scorpions "Wind Of Change" are the three farang songs most Thais know.

If you find yourself in a Thai karaoke bar chances are you'll be choosing from these three.

From my time you seem to miss out "Take me hooom - contly loooaad"

"as the area seems to be a hidden gem"

Well some may call it that, I wouldnt.

IMHO its overated and overpriced, much better areas of Thailand.

Too be honest the only thing it has going for it is its proximity to Bkk.

"Family is traveling up to Khao Yai tomorrow"

Depends what you mean by Khao Yai, which part will they be visiting, to the south in the Prachin Buri/Kabin Buri area?

I dont know what you want, proximity to Bkk or a mountainous area of natural beauty, as I mentioned earlier there are better alternatives, just my personal opinion.

"Family" means me, my wife & son plus sister in law and her daughter, our niece . We plan to stay in Chalet Hill in order to visit the Khao Yai mational park and surrounding area. I am just checking the area on internet as we speak. I am no connoseur at all but l like swiss Racheltte.

Which much better parts of Thailand are you thinking of? I am open for learning.

What appeals to me is the wheather i.e. not always hot (yeah, yeah, I then should go back to Switzerland or my home country - however that is not a parameter for other reasons, or I can check if they serve racklette on Iceland).

In the meantime I like to live in LOS and as we go on learning, we learn that there actually are temperature differences in Asia also.

The 2nd thing is that there are some westerners around to have a conversation with occasionally.

I already live in Bangkok when I am in Thailand and I know that the traffic is a negative and few areas in BKK are estetically beautiful to me, so it is a consideration to find somewhere else,

I picked up that there is an international school in Khao Yai, which is an asset. So being the case, the must be other parents with kids in need of an international school, so maybe quite international area?

Family is traveling up to Khao Yai tomorrow basically to visit what is supposed to be a beautiful area, However, we will also keep an eye on developments / housing estates as the area seems to be a hidden gem. Any one who can recommend properties send me a PM.

For you Swiss - whom a I understand want to keep this secret gem to yourselves:

Ich war lange in der Schweiz wohnhaft, habe an der Hochschule St-Gallen (als die Schule noch "Hochschule war und nicht "Universitaet") mein Liszenziat gemacht, mein sohn studiert gerade an die Geneva School Of Dimplomacy und es wuerde Mich freuen wieder unter Scwiezer zu sein when Ich in die Pension gehe und mein Altertum friedlich geniessen moechte.

Rachlette - anyone?

Lest we forget!

Still not forgotten as I live there at week-ends

YOU MAKE ME CURIOUS KAN WIN - I RECOGNIZE THE VIEW NAD THE BUILDINGS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RAIL LINE WELL, I MAKE SURE TO GO THERE AT LEAST ONCE EVERY TIME I AM IN KANCHANABURI WITH FAMILY - INCLUDING A LUNCH ON TH FLOATING RESTAURANT. I THOUGHT YOU LIVE A FEW KM FURTHER UP? DO YOU MEAN YOU STAY IN THAT IMMEDIATE AREA, IN ONE OF TH BUILDINGS THERE FOR WEEKENDS?

I TRY TO STAY IN FELIX HOTEL WHEN WE CAN - WIFEY HAS A FRIEND WHO IS THE PURCHSING MGR THERE AND SHE GIVES US 50% DISCOUNT. WE ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE DISCO-BOATS AS WELL BUT GENERALLY DON'T FEEL TOO ANOYED BY THHEM

Win

Sign me up - and I think I know where Ban Pong is. My guess is the venue will be the new restaurant when I go out of Thai Num hotel and to the right for 150 meters and then to the left? I even think there is a new club there called "35".