Beer Chang

Lobbying Congress works for Exxon Mobil. The street is the only place where the people are heard.

The team from Sally Bar in Jomtien. You can support this bar by ppoping in for a reasonably priced 55 baht Beer Chang after going to immigration as it;s on the same same soi.

A friend on a 30 day stamp went to Jomtien Immigration today. Barry Kenyon, British consul, told him he'd only be able to get a 7 day extension. So if you're going to be in Thailand for more than a month get it handled in your home country.

Lvdkeyes and I will never be Senators then!

I'm not sure how this forum works but on some forums you can donate points to someone who posted something helpful. So a -1 would be someone who donated a point but never received one. I think.

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Here's a practice session on Pattaya Beach.

I needed letters for Immigration. Both Kasikorn and Bangkok Bank charged me 100 baht. I sort of remember being charged more last year but maybe me memory is fading?

Elo, if you click on the pic then it should get much bigger or at least it does on my computer.

Saturday there was a volleyball tournament on the beach.

For residents of most countries, you get a free 30 day tourist stamp at the aorport. Tomorrow a friend is going to immigration to try to get an additional 30 days, will report back.

But as with most Thai banks I think there's a 20 baht charge if you withdraw money out of "zone".

ya, bring coals to Newcastle

Yesterday some of the bars had a beach volleyball competition. Here's some of the Pook Bar team.

For guys that like high end hotels, many mongers think LK Rennaiasance is the best deal.

Went to the pier and there is a 20 baht ferry to KoLan pier and also a 20 baht ferry to the beach. There is also a 150 rount trip glass bottom ferry to the beach which includes a free beach chair for the day.

Some Ukrainian girls come here to work as prostitutes. Some stay in hotel in the Day,Night area of Pattaya and they don't look like backpackers.

This is exactly what happened to me too.

Some people are saying money in the bank for 60 days, not easy for the first timer to have money in the bank for the full 90 days on a 90 day visa.

A friend of mine went. They didn't disclose the location in advance and instead picked him up at his hotel. So he's riding through Bangkok with two women he's never met before on his way to a 6 hour bondage and domination session. My friend was an experimenter, not an S&M devotee so in discussing the paramaters before the session he said as a novice he didn't want anything too extreme and to err on the side of caution. All specific requests were honored. He thought it was interesting but since the cost is quite high he never went back.

Opportunity knocked and he opened the door.

litteraly when they really mean extremely figureatively

I've been to shacks in Issan and the people seem happy. Poor people in the slums of America seem bitter. But I get what you're saying Lvd.

I've been to shacks in Issan and the people seem happy. Poor people in the slums of America seem bitter. But I get what you're saying Lvd.