thaibeachlovers

Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital is a university teaching hospital, affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine of Chiang Mai University, Far as I know that is a government hospital.

Indeed rural England is beautiful- the result of thousands of years of farming and civilization. Unfortunately I had to live in London, which ( apart from some old buildings and parks ) is ugly, dirty, polluted and overpopulated.

LOL. The Thai consultant I went to sorted the problem Drs in western countries had been unable to diagnose correctly. The bill was a few hundred baht and no drugs or bandages. To get an appointment to see a consultant in my country requires me to pay biggly to see a GP and then I have to wait who knows how long before I actually see the consultant. I saw the Thai consultant without an appointment on the day I went to the hospital. I'll take the Thai health service over what I have to put up with here any day.

That's easy to answer. No matter how bad it is in the UK, it's better than the <deleted><deleted> place they came from. Unfortunately they may cause the UK to replicate the place they came from the way things are going.

You visited often, but didn't live in the UK? IMO one has to live in a country to understand the real problems. I left the UK some years ago, but it had some deep rooted problems that had been caused by politicians, and short of some unpleasant solutions are, IMO, unlikely to be solved. Will China be the next empire? Given the corruption and lack of moral fiber in the west, probably, but I hope I'm dead before it happens. IMO the west has become too soft and lazy to survive for much longer.

Indeed, and yet there are those ( and some on this forum ) that think the NHS should do everything for anyone eg gender changing, no matter how irrelevant to the reason the NHS was set up ie treat sick people that couldn't afford to pay. I left the NHS some years ago, but the rot had already set in. Gordon Brown gave the NHS 6 billion quid and they wasted it on flash buildings and more managers. Such a shame, but that's managers for you- little empire builders. The money would have been better spent on more cleaners and nurses that actually nursed ( instead of sitting in offices thinking of ways to make life harder for the actual workers ). IMO the NHS was a brilliant idea, but it was sabotaged by those that should have known better. I knew a few surgical consultants that regarded the NHS as a source of cheap nurses for their private work. IMO if there is anything that could save the NHS it would be to oust consultants from doing private cases in NHS hospitals ( private cases should be done in private hospitals ) and reduce the number of managers by 70%.

I'm sure it would, but the only people that can say for sure are the relevant British authorities. I'd start by asking the airline if they'd even allow anyone to board in that situation.

IMO that's correct.

How can she exit on the Thai passport when it won't have an entry on it? I know I can enter and exit on one of my 2 passports and then enter another country with other passport, but I'm pretty sure I have to enter and exit on same passport.

Too late to edit my previous post, but thanks to google a quick look found a couple of pictures of beautiful Chinese city assets. Why can't Bkk have a river front like that in Shanghai? Ever seen a park like that in the second photo in Thailand? It's Shenshen Bao'an Waterfront park.

I never said I "hate" any city in Thailand, though I probably hate Patong in particular and Phuket in general. I spent a great deal of time in Bkk, it's not a great city, being ugly, dirty, much broken, and destroyed by traffic. Nevertheless I had great times there, but never too long. I love Pattaya, but no one could accuse it of being beautiful or even working well for the people that live in it. The topic was about "best". I never said I wanted to live in China, but they do have beautiful cities.

Than Sadet beach in a hut on the edge of the sand. No traffic, no nightlife and difficult to get to which keeps the yobs away. Second place to Haad Khom. I'd never want to stay long time in Singapore, the most soul less place I've been. There's more to life than shopping and eating. I'd never want to stay in Malaya. Absence of sanuk. Never went anywhere else long enough to judge as I arrived in LOS decades ago and it was as close to paradise as I would expect to find on this planet, so never went anywhere else in SEA. I did have an overnight stay in Hong Kong, but that's not enough to judge anywhere on. I did a visa run to Burma, but same as the previous sentence. I've been to loads of other countries but the OP is about SEA. If it were about "where on the planet" it'd be Antarctica.

IMO no such thing in LOS. All the ones I visited were ugly, badly planned ( is there such a thing as planning in LOS? ) and had awful traffic. The only town I liked was Phayao and even that was a traffic disaster. The best they can do is have small areas that are nice, eg the White Temple in Chiang Rai, though even that was ruined the last time I visited it. Thailand has many lovely places, but none, IMO, in cities. Whenever I saw a Chinese city on tv I wished Thailand had cities like they do. I even asked a Chinese that used to live there and she said they are as beautiful as those on tv. Even Pattaya can't build a decent waterfront walkway.

No guarantees in life. I knew a guy that married a girl as good looking as that. She became fat, unpleasant and divorced.

Some of them start taking contraceptive pills when quite young. The reason they are so pushy to get customers is, IMO, because they need to pay for the surgeries. Malibu show in Pattaya had a lot of ladyboys dancing and one of the best looking had a very male voice, though some are not noticeably male.

Seriously? I went there many times early 90s and definitely no night market as it became later. When the bag shops outnumbered the gogos I figured it was time to abandon the place. I always went once a trip to remind myself why I didn't go there any more. There may have been a night market, but it wasn't very large or I'd have noticed it.

Luckily for those of us not interested in ladyboys most preferred the large size, which did require silicone. That made them pretty distinctive.

Definitely there in early 90s. For sure ladyboys in Nana, though mostly restricted to "their" gogos of which there were about 4 last time I went. Unfortunately, IMO Pattaya gogos not as good as those in Nana, so didn't frequent them, except SuperBaby before it closed. Best lookers of any gogo, decent music. Only problem was the high spending Asians that also frequented the place that made it too expensive for me to take any out.

I did lots of work for the family houses. Laid concrete patio tiles, erected security fences and shade cloth covers, did loads of electrical stuff, plumbing, etc. I definitely wasn't a scrounger in the relationship. I was planning to start big vege gardens, but the relationship ended before I could.

Joining the services was the best thing I ever did. Came out with a trade and an appetite for travel. Pity about the <deleted> guys that run it. It could have been so much better and the senior NCO bullies were pretty bad.

They've been there as long as I can remember. I hated the obstacle course market. There was one gogo that was pretty good with 50/50 girls and ladyboys. Can't remember the name. In the end the hassle of getting from the Skytrain to and from the street put me off going at all and I stuck with Nana. No regrets.

The way we are overpopulating, destroying the environment and polluting the planet I think humanity is doomed anyway, even if WW3 doesn't happen.

Barnsley, excellent choice!

You think that is possible without having your own country blown off the face of the earth? At least it'll solve the overpopulation problem.

Was "Lucky Lukes" bar across from Lucky Stars or was that a later name for Lucky Stars? Getting forgetful in my old age.