February 2nd, 2008, 16:09
Have been thinking about my January visit and how best to write about it so have taken the lazy way out.
Top 10
1. Thanks to all the bar owners of all sorts who daily live through all the hassle of rules, regulations, pay offs, police etc etc so that we can have a good time when on holiday.
2. Thanks to the Thai boys we meet who give us a good time in many different ways.
3. The ATM maintenance engineers and bankers who keep these clever little machines full of money each day.
4. Villa supermarket for ignoring the stupid rules about when you can buy alcohol.
5. Family Marts and 7/11's for always being open for emergency purchases and for letting you pay utility bills.
6. The numerous places where you can buy a nice breakfast for under 100 baht.
7. Au Bon Coin, my favourite upmarket restaurant.
8. Cuisine Au Beurre, the best mid range restaurant.
9. Salt and Pepper, the best budget restauarant.
10. Little Mango, the nicest Thai restauarant in the Sunee area, with the cutest cats
11. Russian youth and their liking for small swimming costumes
12. Tuc Com for selling the latest series of Boston Legal, illegal of course, but who cares, for just a few hundred baht.
13. Thais in general for putting up with mostly unintentionally rude farangs, usually with a smile.
and the booby prizes.
1. Polluters of all sorts, responsible for the haze that stopped a clear view of the horizon (could hardly see Koh Larn all month), and strew the beaches with all sorts of crap.
2. Car park attendants at Royal garden who minutely examine underneath with mirrors but never want to see inside the trunk.
3. MotorBike owners who see nothing wrong in scratching cars.
4. The architects who thought it was a good idea to make the Villa/Avenue complex completely off limits for disabled people.
5. Slow moving convoys of trucks who advertise with loud sound systems, blocking traffic and disturbing everyone.
6. Road engineers responsible for the tragedy called the Pattaya to Jomtien road.
7.Traffic police who do not do their job and a government who pays them so little that they have to resort to corruption and unofficial fines.
8. The sickly sweet smell that wafts into bars from food carts that sell insects.
9. That annoying farang on skis.
10. Condo adverts that never tell you where the condo is.
11. Lotus and Big C, splendid in many ways but absurdly not allowing farangs to buy beer in the afternoon.
12. Thais who dither in front of ATM's, trying several different cards, finally discovering what they knew all along, that they have no money.
13. Christmas decorations still up at the end of January.
14. Late night and early morning noise makers of all sorts.
Top 10
1. Thanks to all the bar owners of all sorts who daily live through all the hassle of rules, regulations, pay offs, police etc etc so that we can have a good time when on holiday.
2. Thanks to the Thai boys we meet who give us a good time in many different ways.
3. The ATM maintenance engineers and bankers who keep these clever little machines full of money each day.
4. Villa supermarket for ignoring the stupid rules about when you can buy alcohol.
5. Family Marts and 7/11's for always being open for emergency purchases and for letting you pay utility bills.
6. The numerous places where you can buy a nice breakfast for under 100 baht.
7. Au Bon Coin, my favourite upmarket restaurant.
8. Cuisine Au Beurre, the best mid range restaurant.
9. Salt and Pepper, the best budget restauarant.
10. Little Mango, the nicest Thai restauarant in the Sunee area, with the cutest cats
11. Russian youth and their liking for small swimming costumes
12. Tuc Com for selling the latest series of Boston Legal, illegal of course, but who cares, for just a few hundred baht.
13. Thais in general for putting up with mostly unintentionally rude farangs, usually with a smile.
and the booby prizes.
1. Polluters of all sorts, responsible for the haze that stopped a clear view of the horizon (could hardly see Koh Larn all month), and strew the beaches with all sorts of crap.
2. Car park attendants at Royal garden who minutely examine underneath with mirrors but never want to see inside the trunk.
3. MotorBike owners who see nothing wrong in scratching cars.
4. The architects who thought it was a good idea to make the Villa/Avenue complex completely off limits for disabled people.
5. Slow moving convoys of trucks who advertise with loud sound systems, blocking traffic and disturbing everyone.
6. Road engineers responsible for the tragedy called the Pattaya to Jomtien road.
7.Traffic police who do not do their job and a government who pays them so little that they have to resort to corruption and unofficial fines.
8. The sickly sweet smell that wafts into bars from food carts that sell insects.
9. That annoying farang on skis.
10. Condo adverts that never tell you where the condo is.
11. Lotus and Big C, splendid in many ways but absurdly not allowing farangs to buy beer in the afternoon.
12. Thais who dither in front of ATM's, trying several different cards, finally discovering what they knew all along, that they have no money.
13. Christmas decorations still up at the end of January.
14. Late night and early morning noise makers of all sorts.