What are some of the simple pleasures of living / visiting Thailand for you?

This place can easily grind you into the ground with a menagerie of events in everyday life.

Yet, everyday, I find a reason to smile ... I can find a simple pleasure or pleasurable thing to do.

If the kids are settled, there is nothing I like more then rounding up the dogs (two, sometimes three) and go walking around the Farm ... and you know they love it too. They see me, tails start to wag, they know the time is usually round sunset before the mozzies attack.

OH ... just so you don't think this is some sugar puff ... the other thing I love, speaking of mosquitoes is the sound, at night as they fly to close to the Mozzie Zapper and you hear that unmistakable crackling sound as their wings flap for that one last time.

As cruel as it sounds ... that's a simple pleasure of living / visiting here ...

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Being able to turn the air conditoning on year round - home got almost 50cm of snow this week.

I love zapping the mossies they don't bother me much but it's fun especially since the FIL has tried to guilt me by saying they only live 7-14 days so I should leave them alone, now I have a swing like Andy Murray with my zapper racquet.

I love the smell of burning mozzies - it smells like..........victory

But back on track. For me one of my great pleasures every morning is a large mug of yorkshire tea on my balcony watching the fishing boats return. And its a 12 month pleasure

Set my feet on a sandy beach, let the sun shining on my face, and smell the ocean breeze are something I love.

While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

I'd like to imagine that it's an Ocean Breeze^* ... tis such a simple pleasure.

^* no denying that technically you are correct.

No problem -- but if you've ever lived within hearing distance of 3 meter waves 24 hours per day you will realize that would take lots of imagination.

While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

Really? You pick up a Thai woman for getting the difference between ocean and sea wrong. Dude you need to get out more

I have some too,

• being in my garden as the sunrises. Drinking a coffee and smoking a cigarette, I watch the animal and insect kingdom slowly wake up.
• observing happy Thai people going about their day
• seeing my dog when I've been away for a few days
• Looking at the gorgeous girls all day
• eating the wonderful food
• having a cold beer as the sun goes down
• having a cold beer as the sun comes up
• having a cold beer when the sun is at it's highest

The list is endless for me

While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

Really? You pick up a Thai woman for getting the difference between ocean and sea wrong. Dude you need to get out more

I'd like to get out to here if in this part of the world:

I have four dogs and my immediate neighbours 8 more in total. When they see me getting ready for the afternoon stroll and feed the fish in the pond, I usually get what I call (in my head) a patrol in strength maybe 7 or 8 come with me running ahead tails a wagging, I love it, chasing anything in sight. Putting around on my motorbike seeing all the locals doing their thing, continually amazed at how many pretty girls there are even in the ville

BTW I never really got the whole ocean/sea thing where does one start and where does it finish seems like a grey area to me

While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

Really? You pick up a Thai woman for getting the difference between ocean and sea wrong. Dude you need to get out more

There is no ocean in Thailand? The sea and the ocean are not the same thing?

No. That's why they call an ocean an ocean and a sea or Gulf something else. Maybe I just act viscerally 'cause of all the times I'm asked why do you live in (boring) Isaan when you could live on Samui or at Phuket? I think this way (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim in 'west Side Story'):

ROSALIA
Puerto Rico,
You lovely island . . .
Island of tropical breezes.
Always the pineapples growing,
Always the coffee blossoms blowing . . .

ANITA
Puerto Rico . . .
You ugly island . . .
Island of tropic diseases.
Always the hurricanes blowing,
Always the population growing . . .
And the money owing,
And the babies crying,
And the bullets flying.
I like the island Manhattan.
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

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While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

I've always found the sea breeze to be a surprising pleasure here in Phitsanulok...................

Sitting at the village shop having a beer with the locals and watching the world go by.

Relaxing and entertaining.

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While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

Really? You pick up a Thai woman for getting the difference between ocean and sea wrong. Dude you need to get out more

There is no ocean in Thailand? The sea and the ocean are not the same thing?

He is correct you need to give yourself a shake! Boring.

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While there is a sea breeze, there is no ocean breeze in Thailand.

Really? You pick up a Thai woman for getting the difference between ocean and sea wrong. Dude you need to get out more

There is no ocean in Thailand? The sea and the ocean are not the same thing?

He is correct you need to give yourself a shake! Boring.

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I totally thought that ocean and the sea are the same thing, so...please don't give me a hard time on this.

Allow me to to say that, for the purpose of this thread, the Ocean and the Sea are indefinably linked and that we can enjoy both in it's various forms.

Another small pleasure for me is when the wind changes direction from the south to from the north and we live near the southern approach to Swampy and I love watching the planes land.

We only get a few weeks of that, maybe a month at the best ... but I do like to watch them approach.

Maybe, I'm just a (big) boy at heart?

Ms. Som -- I, at least, certainly did not intend to give you a hard time. The biggest non-technical difference between an ocean and a sea, gulf, or strait is the presence of waves that have traveled hundreds or thousands of miles before reaching the shore.

"I totally thought that ocean and the sea are the same thing, so...please don't give me a hard time on this"

Don't get your knickers in a knot. The crab is only nit picking tis all. Although technically in a geographic sense he may be correct. Think of it as a sea being more enclosed such as the Mediterranean sea or the Black sea (but still connected to the ocean) but as I said before when it comes to more open bodies of water such as the Tasman sea it becomes a gray - or blue area, nitpicker's heaven.

Ms. Som -- I, at least, certainly did not intend to give you a hard time. The biggest non-technical difference between an ocean and a sea, gulf, or strait is the presence of waves that have traveled hundreds or thousands of miles before reaching the shore.

I, at least? Man up. You were the only one giving her a hard time.

Ms. Som -- I, at least, certainly did not intend to give you a hard time. The biggest non-technical difference between an ocean and a sea, gulf, or strait is the presence of waves that have traveled hundreds or thousands of miles before reaching the shore.

I, at least? Man up. You were the only one giving her a hard time.

Too much time on his hands...JL should take up sailing in the sea sorry ocean...sorry sea

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Ms. Som -- I, at least, certainly did not intend to give you a hard time. The biggest non-technical difference between an ocean and a sea, gulf, or strait is the presence of waves that have traveled hundreds or thousands of miles before reaching the shore.

I, at least? Man up. You were the only one giving her a hard time.

Too much time on his hands...JL should take up sailing in the sea sorry ocean...sorry sea

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Thanks guys. My point is that I love the sun, the sand, the beach and sea/ocean breeze. I can swim in the sea all day long and won't get tired of it. I know most Thai girls don't like to be out in the sun or sea but I love it.

Stepping out to the street market around the corner and sampling a huge variety of foods for a pittance.

Getting on a train or bus or boat and getting off at random to explore.

Massages available around the corner for B60 per hour.

Strolling through a new community and making a whole slew of new friends within hours, being invited to eat or even stay if I want to.

Full-time live-in servants for less than the telecoms bill back home.

Heading upcountry in the morning and being in a completely different world that evening.

And of course the girls, although they are sometimes not exactly simple. . .

During the rainy season I just love sitting on the balcony watching the rain out on that blue piece of water, then watch it come in to land. I stay until the rain drives me inside. And, of course watching the lightning. Weather can be awesome and free. It doesn't get much better than that.

The fierce red sunsets of the burning season, balmy spring mornings, lazy shady afternoons, starry starry nights bah humbug

In post #6 I made a simple 65 character (I checked on Twitter) statement that I believe is fully accurate. So it seems the reaction comes from persons who may also have a lot of time on their hands. Me? -- I'm just waiting for activities to pick up at the UN in Geneva and the European Commission in Brussels.

During the rainy season I just love sitting on the balcony watching the rain out on that blue piece of water, then watch it come in to land. I stay until the rain drives me inside. And, of course watching the lightning. Weather can be awesome and free. It doesn't get much better than that.

Yep ... watching the tropical thunderstorms hit is an amazing event ... if you are home and dry.

I can't see the sea from the Farm, but we can watch it roll in across the various Farm Ponds.

Usually we are tucked in under the big carport and sitting on the drop-down gate of the pick-up ... and just admiring nature.

Cold bevvie doesn't go astray during this either.

Central Florida has more lightning strikes than any place in the world except Rwanda in Africa.

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