thaiophilus
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Something else to keep is your checked baggage receipt. Some countries actually check that the bag you take away from the airport is the one you checked in. And if it never emerges from the carousel, that bit of paper may be the only proof that the bag existed.
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10 hours ago, reader said:
Take all meds plus any supplements you’re taking to your internist and let him evaluate possibility of interactions, or other condition altogether.
Or talk to your pharmacist. They should know, maybe better than the doctor, about possible interactions. And, in the UK at least, are much more accessible ☹️
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An article here about the hotel's history:
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2 hours ago, Patanawet said:
Close to Pitak was a small restaurant frequented by the King and Queen of Sweden when they came here on their scouting Jamborees.
Would that have been Malee, my usual breakfast stop when I stayed in the Malaysia? Owned by US/Thai couple Peter and Golf, photos on the walls of their many VIP guests. When they first opened, the BiB sent an officer round to negotiate their tea money, but they introduced him to Golf's cousin, whose Army uniform had a lot of brass on it. After that they had no problems 😉
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5 hours ago, Olddaddy said:
he had never heard of bands such as Duran Duran or the Communards
But he might have been aware of the Reverend Richard Coles, who these days is a British "National Treasure" ?
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FWIW Herts, Leics, Lincs, Mons, Notts, Staffs, Warks are all formal contractions of county names, only used in writing, and not even slightly cute. Likewise Hants, Northants, Oxon and Salop. You won't hear them used in colloquial spoken British English. Plenty of British towns and cities get nicknames, but I'm not aware of any that do it by adding an S , so I think you need to look elsewhere to explain "Pats", "Patts" or even (ugh!) "Patters".
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On 1/29/2024 at 3:08 PM, Marc in Calif said:
The Brits and Aussies are so cute with their little nicknames for places.
How quaint and colonialist is it to shorten the name of a foreign place just like they say Herts for Hertfordshire? 🤓
So you won't be shortening "กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์" next time you visit? 😄
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Or triathlon...
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8 hours ago, macaroni21 said:
@floridarob's map location was clear enough. It's as he described - a single shop unit in a small road parallel to Second Road. The only difficulty some may have is his description of "green awning". Colour descriptions don't always work for those of us who are colour-blind.
Thanks. I now see my problem, which isn't colour vision. The map location is clear enough, but Google's interpretation of it may depend on who you are, or something in your search history. When I followed @floridarob's link, Google tried to take me to "Fortune Pharmacy" which I now see is the shop next door, but for reasons known only to Google, it actually centred the map on a completely different pharmacy. Here is where it should have gone.
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8 hours ago, vinapu said:
Do what I do and travel light. That is surest way to limit expenses only to items that need urgent replacement as that cheap but beautifull iron cast statue or whatever suddenly becomes expensive when you realize that carrying it will requre 100 $ checked luggage surcharge.
but if you're in Bangkok and you really really really want a cast iron statue, here's the place:
(Google Street View) and there are two more floors of the stuff inside... 😵
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6 hours ago, floridarob said:
We went to sleep about 6am and woke up at noon, went to lunch nearby here, if you like Thai food, there is this little hole in the wall place you'd never find unless you're looking for it.
I had Pad Kaprow pork with 2 fried eggs, he had seafood tom yum, 2cokes and bill was 190 baht....is maybe my favorite Thai restaurant at the moment, found it when I was here in Sept.
It's not even listed on Google Maps.....was part of the reason I stayed in Boystown area instead of Jomtien....
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dpS7ynM9XrnwibPh9
It's the place with the green awning, I think they're closed on Monday.
Green awning and a red sign saying "ผักบุ้งลอยฟ้า SEAFOOD" on Second Road, with an alley from Soi 13/3, looks like this?
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1 hour ago, Shonen said:
100 baht? I don’t think so, I guess you’re joking.
Maybe he means 100 USD per month?
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Issuing modern polymer notes helps.
From the Bank of England:
"In the first half of 2023 typically less than 0.0031% of banknotes were counterfeit, that is less than 1 in 30,000 banknotes. Some 73,000 counterfeit Bank of England banknotes with a nominal face value of £1.5 million were taken out of circulation. At any one time, there is around 4.6 billion genuine banknotes in circulation, with a notional face value of £82 billion."
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/counterfeit-banknotes
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Suvarnabhumi (Golden Land) was the grandiose name of PM Thaksin's vanity airport project. Unlike the well-chosen site of Don Muang (City Hill - the clue is in the name!), Suvarnabhumi was built on an area known as Nong Nguhao (Cobra Swamp). Hence the nickname.
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I'd be very surprised (and it would be headline news) if I turned up to Gatwick to board EK016 and it turned out to be any Boeing aircraft 🙂.
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... and just like that, the Tumblr site has been nuked ☹️. It had loads of posts going back several years, so why should it get removed now?
Maybe a rush of new viewers triggered the Tumblr censors...
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While trawling Tumblr I tripped over this: https://gaykohsamuithailand.tumblr.com/
Mostly it seems to be advertising "Emerald Green Mens Club" but there's some eye candy (not all Thai) too. Not sure where the Parthenon fits in, though.
For an overview see https://gaykohsamuithailand.tumblr.com/archive
Disclaimer: I have had no dealings with the listed businesses, so this is neither a recommendation nor the opposite.
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38 minutes ago, vinapu said:
and locals to their homes.
As we know from ARL in BKK , a lot of passenger on airport train are just commuting locals, getting in and off on the way to and from airport
If it really is one-way, most of the commuting locals are in for an unnecessarily long ride at the anticlockwise end of their day 😕
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1 hour ago, Foolish said:
go stay in a cave in Antarctica with penguins for company.
But can you guarantee they won't be Chinese penguins? 🐧🐧🐧
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3 hours ago, omega said:
I arrived in BKK feeling pretty fresh faced, all things considered. Taxi prices from airport seem to have gone up... 600baht said the Taxi Driver! After some firm negotiation, that mostly involved me saying no to his flat fee, and saying I would get another taxi, he agreed to use the meter. I pay express tolls and baggage fee. Not a problem.
(For those interested: To my hotel in Silom, Meter was at ~300 baht, tolls were 100 baht, + baggage was 50 baht I think. I left him with 500 baht.)
Assuming you used an official airport taxi,, they are supposed to be subject to certain rules... like using the meter without haggling, and I can't remember the last time I had that problem. I hope things haven't changed for the worse since I last used them in 2020. You used to be given a form with the driver's name and vehicle registration, which you can use to report them if there are problems. Never heard of a "baggage fee", but there is a 50B airport surcharge which is added to the meter.
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16 hours ago, macaroni21 said:
Thanks, I know about that food court for airport employees, but considering it was lunch hour, I didn't want to make my way there because in previous lunch hours I have found the place very full.
And I didn't make clear (sorry) that in my earlier post, I was referring to the transit areas in Singapore's Changi airport, not the public areas. Their food court is in the transit area, whereas in Suvarnabhumi, all the transit area F&Bs are overpriced.
Yes, I'm sure @thaiophilus was referring to that one.
I don't think there's more than one that fits our collective description (key points being coupon and cheap!) and it's definitely not in the basement.
More here: https://thaiest.com/thai-food/reviews/food-court-at-bangkok-suvarnabhumi-airport
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4 hours ago, macaroni21 said:
It only reminded me of how a humble bowl of noodles that I had in the Suvarnabhumi basement (where the airport train arrives) cost 270 baht!
Aha! The secret for eating at Suvarnabhumi is the Magic Food Point on level 1 landside. It's a food court catering mainly for airport employees (but open to all) and priced accordingly. Naturally it is not advertised on the airport website.
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First, define "gay hotel". Some would say the only truly "gay hotel" in Bangkok was the now-defunct Babylon Barracks...
GPS gone awry
in The Beer Bar
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