"and thinking on later in the evening, I remembered not remembering one (or possibly more) of the places I'd forgotten..."

PRICELESS! You should write poetry.

The guys out weekend is in 3 weeks.

Alright then.. We'll give the 'camping' bars a go.

Cheap beers at Carrefour is not an option unless we get drugged and mugged on the first night. Thanks for the advise though.

Maybe we will try some of those street vendor places where you can sit on the sitewalk with a bottle of sangsom, soda and coke and enjoy grilled fish etc.

Anyways... if you read about us in the newspaper on that monday morning, then you know the weekend has succeeded.

"and thinking on later in the evening, I remembered not remembering one (or possibly more) of the places I'd forgotten..."

PRICELESS! You should write poetry.

The guys out weekend is in 3 weeks.

Alright then.. We'll give the 'camping' bars a go.

Cheap beers at Carrefour is not an option unless we get drugged and mugged on the first night. Thanks for the advise though.

Maybe we will try some of those street vendor places where you can sit on the sitewalk with a bottle of sangsom, soda and coke and enjoy grilled fish etc.

Anyways... if you read about us in the newspaper on that monday morning, then you know the weekend has succeeded.

As I say, for my last night out, we started at Carrefour food court in the afternoon - Bht 140 for a jug of beer, moved on when it was time for real food to a little open-air restaurant that was on the way, and then I think the last of the normal people bailed out after the first bar go-go bar; another great thing about the food court is you can easily maintain a conversation, should you wish to descend to the depths of talking with your friends. Desperate times, desperate measures!

SC

As its getting close to tea time, Does anyone have any suggestions for the best plaice in Bangkok?

SC

Hotel de Paris

Seriously, Macchu Picchu in Peru.

Ditto on that. I'd love to see Macchu Picchu.

Iguazu Falls is another one, Memphis and the necropolis in Egypt run close seconds.

Seriously, Macchu Picchu in Peru.

Ditto on that. I'd love to see Macchu Picchu.

Iguazu Falls is another one, Memphis and the necropolis in Egypt run close seconds.

So which one would you save till last?

I'd be tempted to see some of these places earlier rather than later, as I am planning on living to an age when senility impairs my appreciation of grandeur, history and beauty

SC

Seriously, Macchu Picchu in Peru.

Ditto on that. I'd love to see Macchu Picchu.

Iguazu Falls is another one, Memphis and the necropolis in Egypt run close seconds.

So which one would you save till last?

I'd be tempted to see some of these places earlier rather than later, as I am planning on living to an age when senility impairs my appreciation of grandeur, history and beauty

SC

That was last week already SC, we just didn't want to tell you.

Seriously, Macchu Picchu in Peru.

Ditto on that. I'd love to see Macchu Picchu.

Iguazu Falls is another one, Memphis and the necropolis in Egypt run close seconds.

So which one would you save till last?

I'd be tempted to see some of these places earlier rather than later, as I am planning on living to an age when senility impairs my appreciation of grandeur, history and beauty

SC

That was last week already SC, we just didn't want to tell you.

Stop mumbling, man. Say what you mean...

I should start a thread on places to visit before I move on... I could post it on that internet thingie.

SC

Camping.

Maybe camping is the last thing you'd like to do.

Britain has produced some great campers - Baden Powell, father of the boy scouts (probably not literally), Frankie Howerd but my favourite, without doubt, is Kenneth Williams.

SC

I've done my share of camping in the past...

Some camps have been well set up and comfortable...

But others have been a lot more rugged bivouacs

What camping DOES do is allow you to stay in places where you couldn't otherwise enjoy.

Camping.

Maybe camping is the last thing you'd like to do.

Britain has produced some great campers - Baden Powell, father of the boy scouts (probably not literally), Frankie Howerd but my favourite, without doubt, is Kenneth Williams.

SC

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I've done my share of camping in the past...

Some camps have been well set up and comfortable...

But others have been a lot more rugged bivouacs

What camping DOES do is allow you to stay in places where you couldn't otherwise enjoy.

Top photos, Ian.

Reminds me of my last camping trip - other than a stop at the back of Nana, as part of the induction tour - I suppose that's more vamping than camping anyway.

This was some years ago, when I was much younger than I am today.

A friend's wife had arranged a 'Stag Night Reunion' as the stag weekend highlight - a trip to the Theakston's Brewery - had been a washout since the brewery stopped doing public tours...(couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery; he was getting a bit fed up with that after a year or two...)

Anyway, his wife phoned ahead and sorted everything out, and we camped not far out of the village of Masham, slightly more than a dozen of us...

I'm not sure what happened to the tent; I think it went travelling elsewithwhom

SC