Guderian

...with getting an oil painting done from a print or poster in one of the art shops in Pattaya? I know there are lots of places that will do it for a fee, but I'm specifically asking for personal experiences and recommendations from anyone who has actually had it done in the last year or so. The print I want to get an oil painting made from is a 17th century oil-on-board landscape, so I'm after the closest and best possible reproduction of the print, which itself is very close to the actual size of the original paining in the Museum of Wales. I've tried to make it as easy as possible to make a faithful copy of the original, but now I need to find a good artist to do the job.

A good idea as long as they don't just shunt them across to inactive posts costing the same money from a different budget.

Never been there myself, but I've read about a cafe somewhere out in the sticks that's butterfly-themed. I think this might be the place... https://www.wongnai.com/attractions/428470bL-the-butterfly-corner-pattaya

Yes, but it means there's never a queue in a Shell station, unlike at PTT. My time is worth more than a few extra Baht on the petrol bill, so I happily use Shell.

They agreed to refund me 3,000 Baht for a seat reservation from DOH to BKK which was cancelled by them when they changed the aircraft from a 777 to an A380. Three months later and still nothing has appeared in my bank account.

Ten days? That's longer than Pattaya. I hope this doesn't become an inter-city competition to see who can hold the longest water throwing festival.

So a 500 Baht fine probably? No, wait! That's the going rate for a Russian assaulting a pregnant Thai lady. Since they're not evil farangs, this little charge sheet probably only merits a 200 Baht fine.

No joking, but apparently Kyiv is the best place to go nowadays for top quality and reasonably-priced dental work. There are Ukrainian refugees living in Britain who fly back home just to visit the dentist, as the dentists in the UK are so expensive and difficult to get to see. Matthew Parris went there for dental work a month or two back and wrote an interesting article for The Times about it. It's behind a paywall so I can't add a link. Have a look at this, it quotes an implant as costing between $500 and $1,000. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7109

This is all a bit overblown. Didn't any of these silly Thai women ever hear of Nyotaimori? Stir fried noodles, for goodness sake! lol

It seems that Thaksin is back, only his War on Drugs last time has morphed into a War on Farangs.

PM Srettha stunned by giant White Elephant in the room, lol.....

It just goes to show you that all the paperwork and reporting hoops we have to jump through here so the Immigration Police can locate us at any time is really useful - not!

TAT really needs to get its act together on the quality tourist thing, lol.

I drove from Second Road along Soi 5 to the beach. This is now a one-way road heading west, i.e. towards the beach, yet I met around 6 cars driving in the opposite direction. On Beach Road itself, as usual since the one-way system was begun, bicycles, motorbikes and samlors all believe that it doesn't apply to them, with 2 cars and a truck also deciding that it's silly to follow the signs. It seems to be another of those optional Thai traffic rules, a bit like stopping at a red light, lol.

Health benefits = medical reasons. Ergo, no need for any certificates, just self-certify that you get health benefits from weed and that's your medical reason for using it, lol.

You're popular here? Really? Your profile shows 325 likes for 387 posts, which hardly makes you Taylor Swift. lol

Here he is having a chat with his special advisor on Thailand about conditions there... lol

I occasionally drive up to Laem Chabang to see the GF, and I've given up using Suk for the trip, too slow due to all the roadworks. Instead I just take the 7 and join Suk in Laem Chabang. A lot further, and a 20 Baht toll, but who cares? It's much better than sitting in a traffic jam for half an hour in Pattaya.

What next, nobody was actually ever hurt at Tak Bai? The Shins are really a family of saints and have been sorely misjudged by the negligent media? And so the rehabilitation continues...

Any tax cuts are likely to be offset by the plummetting value of the Thai currency, lol.

It's happened to me a number of times over the years. I just move on and park the car somewhere else. They can't stop you parking on Beach Road, of course, but then you'll probably find that a monkey has dropped a coconut on your windscreen when you get back. It's easier to just go with the flow and move on.

Will the farang perversions never end? lol

They should keep up with the news a bit more. Clearly, to solve all the problems they only need to ban people from Switzerland, since it's Swiss who've been causing all the problems in the last week or so. They're giving the angelic tourists from Britain an Australia a bad name! lol

I won't believe a word of it until we get the TAT numbers! lol

A sign of the times, or 'progress' as some like to call it. Ten years ago, this scene would have been set on a mango plantation, but nowadays it's on a cannabis farm.