floridarob

I look forward to meeting @Department_Of_Agriculture 😁

Seeing if @vinapu or @jason1975 make the trip to see us, but will keep it secret until last minute 😉

I look forward to meeting @Department_Of_Agriculture 😁

Seeing if @vinapu or @jason1975 make the trip to see us, but will keep it secret until last minute 😉

I don't. You make some interesting observations.

Are they training to be rocket scientists - or perhaps space nurses?
@bkkmfj2648 must be thrilled to read this as he's moving to the Philippines soon.

Gentlemen,
Myself, @floridarob , @emiel1981 and @Reader will be in Silom next Monday, 16th November. Say 19:30.
Anyone else around who wants to meet up for a drink and some nosh, please reply? No venue chosen yet, depends on numbers, feel free to suggest locations.

I visited the sauna - it's in the basement of the Wall St Tower at the Rama 4 end of Surawong. I am 60 and reception welcomed me like a long lost friend. Alas, inside, the crowd was more standing and modelling than any real action. And the limited action most certainly did not include this particular English daddy.
i was very pleased to pick up my suits from the tailor and leave BKK after a couple of nights. Now back in Manila where Im being fucked raw by a procession of nicely hung lads who want nothing more from me than my acquiescence and, perhaps, 2000 pesos - around 1000 thb - to help them with their studies.

I was in Morocco recently and don't know if I'd choose the term 'Wonderful Morocco' - I've been before and forgot just how scammy many locals are.
Also, an issue with paying a third party is that the local guys always require some kind negotiation each time.

So I guess we now have at least two people willing to help us for a fee - one guy will give a list of guys in Algeria and here we have someone who will help us do basic travel planning. Is this where this site is headed? I hope not.

They are busy transforming the former TTB bank branch into a new McDonald's which will sit across Thappraya Road from the primary entrance to Super Town.

Source = https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DDopTkyCm/

Our newest large 7-11, which opened some months ago, in front of the View Talay 5 complex has a big parking lot - already with 2 structures on it, 1.) Pim Land - Thai food, and 2.) an unnamed structure - but the unconfirmed rumor mill says that it will be a KFC franchise.


Regarding the abundance of places to eat in the Jomtien Complex, aka Supertown - giving the appearance of a culinary street, I would agree. I compared 2 different maps of the Complex - one from 2014 and the latest one as published by the current administrator of the FB Supertown site and when I counted them here is what I discovered:
2014 vs. 2026
14 (in 2014) and 22 (in 2026) --> a 57% increase in culinary places to eat within the Complex in a 13 year time horizon.
Source maps used to make this comparison were:
2014 = https://gayjomtienbeach.blogspot.com/p/guide-to-jomtien-complex.html
2026 = https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CbSnHAYTi/

What's the chance I had the same guy with the same experience from the same bar last night ???

I just got in this morning. Thai was an hour late, and although we arrived at D4, close to immigration, I was in row 63 at the back of an A350, with another flight ahead of us. Almost 50 minutes to get through.
I ended up directing traffic. People at the front were blocking the whole fucking line waiting for the two booths directly ahead, instead of spreading out to the ones on the right. Once I pointed that out, things moved considerably faster.
One booth was set a little further in, and apparently nobody knew whether they were allowed to queue there. When I reached the front, I walked straight over. Everyone looked at me like WTF, then promptly lined up behind me. 😂
Luggage was already waiting. At customs, for the first time in all my visits, they stopped my Indian friend and had him put his bag through the scanner. I asked whether she wanted mine too. “No.” Apparently I have an innocent face. 😇
Then 1½ hours to The Venue with Mike Taxi, courtesy of a female driver who has clearly missed her calling in Formula One.

An interesting observation and one that isn't without merit. On my most recent visit, I found the complex and its gaynizens to be just as welcoming as on previous visits with the added buzz of Halloween and high season thrown in, but, now that you've mentioned it, it could just have been any other carnival-esque street and not necessarily a gay one. I'm okay with this as I adapt well to change ** and kind of have grown up with "gay Thailand" over the last 25 years, both within the commercial sex industry and more importantly within the larger gay Thai population. Isn't this blurring and mainstreaming of gay identities trending worldwide?
Speaking of new restaurants opening, I wonder whether KFC and McDonald's are going to move in? I mean there are plenty of Ronald McDonald and Colonal Sanders look-a-likes among the local farang gaynizens who can act as mascots and I'd hate to see such a valuable resource go to waste. Pennywise too but I don't think Stephen King is planning to start a book club in Jomtien anytime soon. 🤷
** One thing I find a bit annoying is speaking to a member of staff in Thai for them to look bewildered because they're newly arrived Cambodian or Vietnamese. Laotians and Shan Burmese are okay as most of them can speak Thai at some level.

just wondering if anyone else is getting the vibe that the Jomtien Complex is shifting more toward a standard restaurant row or culinary street lately.
Looking at how mainstream the area around Dicks and Sophia has become, it feels like that might be the future direction for the whole complex. With more focus on dining, it seems like the host bars might eventually fade out or just shrink down to a couple of remaining spots.
Anyone else noticing this trend, or do you think the nightlife side will hold on?

I'm in Pattaya and stopped by a small bar in between the sois where some bar guys stop and drink at times.

I asked Mae if she's seen Arm, a guy from Dream Boys @vinapu you know him, and she had a shocked look on her face and told me he died ln October, not sure if she meant last month or last year...I was surprised too... apparently he overdosed on drugs.....so sad.

Made me think about how many guys over the years that I've known that have died from accidents, killed, Aids, natural causes, etc...

Some I'm really surprised about, such as Arm and others, not so much....

Any really stand out to you?

In Thailand I’m big. In Brazil I’m “a lovely person.” Geography can be cruel. 😂

Yet afraid he's to meet or reply to posts of invitations..... aka, keyboard warrior, doesn't want to be outed/seen???

I've met quite a few members that can vouch for me.... whether they like me or not, is a different thing 🤐



Impressive creative writing. Next time, try putting that much effort into a personality..... or are you speaking from your own experience?


There will be a few forum members getting together in BKK next week, coming?

.... btw, have you ever met anyone from here?

His partner has a new (Farang) partner..... but, yes he's running it while Zack has been put out to pasture ☹️

He's at airport, short flight home to Kolkata.

yet

Uh-huh. 🙄
Does your young Indian companion celebrate Diwali? If he does, wish him Happy Diwali for me. I'm on a three-day long weekend and spending it at my partner's place in Songkhla. 💞

Yet afraid he's to meet or reply to posts of invitations..... aka, keyboard warrior, doesn't want to be outed/seen???

I've met quite a few members that can vouch for me.... whether they like me or not, is a different thing 🤐



Impressive creative writing. Next time, try putting that much effort into a personality..... or are you speaking from your own experience?


There will be a few forum members getting together in BKK next week, coming?

.... btw, have you ever met anyone from here?

love , isn't it a beautiful thing ?

I wish I could do that 😑

Regarding USD and Riels, that's what I've been saying since the beginning of this year. There's no need to bring any USD when travelling to Cambodia; it's more hassle than it's worth. Just bring credit/debit cards and if you're travelling from Thailand, whatever baht you have (they will exchange baht at money changers).
I can't recall if @jimmie50 explained what's needed to open a local bank account in Cambodia (one has to have residency status, like the rules in Thailand?) but for the occasional short-tripper to Cambodia is this not practical. Just withdraw Riels from ATMs.
I'm surprised too that @vinapu seemed to be fretting about spending his last Riel before he leaves Cambodia. This may be important for someone who has no plans to return in the near future, but for someone like him who is likely to return by 2032 at the latest, what does it matter if you have unspent 400,000 or 600,000 Riels at the end of a trip? That's 100 USD/150 USD. Just keep the Riels till the next trip. It's not that big a sum of money to leave unused even if for whatever reason one is unable to make a new trip to Cambodia -- not when compared to the total spend for a trip across the Pacific.

Sad to say I know of one. 
He was from Belo Horizonte. He passed away some time in March this year. I was in BH and missed him by a couple of weeks. He was murdered at his home. I only knew when I went back to RJ and a GP told me. 
https://www.itatiaia.com.br/brasil/sudeste/mg/adestrador-de-caes-e-encontrado-morto-em-casa-na-pampulha-em-bh/