Monthly Archives: November 2007

More Thai Visa Panic

November 13, 2007 – 1:53 am

Thai immigration offices and especially the Jomtien Branch have been trying to curb the number of long-stay farangs residents without any real raison d’etre for being in Thailand other than having a good time or sanuk. Gone is the endless merry-go-round of 30-Day tourist visas. 3 and no more. Nearby Thai embassies or consulates are giving tourist 60-day visas with […]

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Pattaya Beach Rating – Ban Amphur

November 12, 2007 – 11:55 pm

Pattaya and Jomtien are not the only beaches on the Eastern Seaboard, although I’d bet that more than half the bar farangs coming to Pattaya have never touched the sand on the beach, unless it was to get a sexual favor from a ka-toey working the Beach Road. The number is probably greater than half. […]

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Warm Beer and Bad Food

November 12, 2007 – 11:53 pm

FROM BANGKOK POST Recently, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggested citizens come up with a five-word motto to capture concisely what makes Britain great. He might be having second thoughts after seeing some of the hundreds of suggestions the Times newspaper has received. On the positive side someone suggested: “Britain, a terribly nice place” and […]

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Copy Temple Outrage

November 8, 2007 – 12:00 am

Several months ago the Culture Minister received a letter from a  well-known Thai architect demanding that the government stop the construction of the Dora-Shada Resort in Baan Plai Nam on the grounds that its main reception hall resembled a Buddhist temple.      “I have been in the forefront, for some years now, in trying to […]

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Fried Rat – Thai Country Cuisine

November 7, 2007 – 11:59 pm

This weekend in the country the nights were cold. Saturday evening my wife’s brother-in-law, his friends, and I drank rice whiskey around a fire. Halfway through the second bottle a young man entered the circle of light. A long small-bore rifle rested on his shoulder and he lifted a large plastic bag. At first I thought […]

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