I hope the timing is ok.

Farang Affairs Pictorial pdf No 22 can be downloaded directly from

farang affairs

/Phil

http://www.farangaffairs.com

I hope the timing is ok. 

Farang Affairs Pictorial pdf No 22 can be downloaded directly from

farang affairs

/Phil

http://www.farangaffairs.com

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The piece about CNN pillock reporters 'on the ground' is good.

But remember when you read about tourist cancellations that this means a lot of very poor Northeastern rice-farming families aren't going to get the bit of cash that comes from one of the younger members of the family having a little job in a resort for the winter months.

The well-heeled in Bangkok would be surprised to see the pickups that I see going down Highway 2 from Udon Thani. To save on busfare and living costs, people form a group to hire a covered pickup to take their bags of rice down to Phuket etc and they travel hunched up on top of a platform over the rice sacks, for hour after hour after hour.

That's real loyalty to the family, in spades.

The well-heeled in Bangkok would be surprised to see the pickups that I see going down Highway 2 from Udon Thani. To save on busfare and living costs, people form a group to hire a covered pickup to take their bags of rice down to Phuket etc and they travel hunched up on top of a platform over the rice sacks, for hour after hour after hour.

That's real loyalty to the family, in spades.

And if they are plush enough to be able to travel on the orange crush buses, they have to endure musicians at the back of the bus banging on spoons during the whole trip, the repetitious beat of;

Ja! Chinnnng. Ja!-Ja! Ching-Chinnnng.

Ja! Chinnnng. Ja!-Ja! Ching-Chinnnng.

From sundown to sun up.

well done Phil - sense and sensitivity!