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Unless they've changed, I'd say high sleaze go-go. You won't find Chinese tour parties visiting them 😲

The Old War Office, apparently.

Buy something inexpensive in a 7-11. It's store policy not to object to paying for small items with large notes. If all else fails, the bar cashier should be willing to change your money for smaller notes.

I seem to recall almost exactly the same words being used about Soi Twilight...

There are (were?) three museums in Kanchanaburi. In order of must-see-ness: The Death Railway Museum and Research Centre in the centre of the town between the station and the war cemetery, is the largest and newest, well up to modern western museum standards and well worth a visit. The JEATH War Museum a little way downstream has photographs and illustrations of life in the camp, some made by the POWs, but is basically a one-monk project and badly underfunded, so don't expect too much. The "other" JEATH museum, the "World War II and JEATH War Museum" next to the bridge, has a lot of miscellaneous WWII stuff and some miscellaneous stuff. According to Google it's temporarily closed.

A friend was in LOS about 14 days after he died and reported "Bars in Pattaya were as usual (Sunnee useless, Boyztown quite good) except that the go-go boys were wearing black knickers and dancing to Faure's Requiem." So I think you can assume that most venues will be open, but perhaps more discreetly than usual.

C. K. Scott Moncrieff, the first translator of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu/Remembrance of Things Past certainly did. In the "hobbies" section of his Who's Who entry he listed "nepotism".

No, it takes a quantum mechanic. The answer is both "yes" and "no" until you observe for yourself. A-Bomb is Schrödinger's gogo.

HOW How can you tell the difference?

Chiang Rai? You can always watch the town clock changing colour, the most exciting night-time spectacle in town! 🥱

Yes, soi 18 aka Yensabai. Boys in revealing shorts standing on the tables... I have maps from the Nicky's Gay Pattaya website which show it as a gogo bar between 2012 and 2014 (with added massage on the top floor from December 2013) but it had gone by the 2015 edition.

You know who owns 30% of Siam Cement?

There's another airline (which I'd better not name!) which I've seen described as "like Ryanair, but without the Irish charm".

but still entertaining for the onlooker. Uninformed criticism of another country's cuisine can be very funny (and if they're judging by the "menu turistico" or equivalent, uninformed is what it will be.) Still, it may not tell us anything about the food, but it clearly exposes the critic's prejudices or lack of knowledge.

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I'd worry about accusations of defacing the currency, since it bears a certain portrait.

I thought that cannabis for leisure use had been banned? You're quoting a post over 2 years old...

Yes, it's the Tonson Night Market in Mahachai. This is not the famous Mahachai Market on the train tracks. I was amused to discover a tourist website which doesn't even mention the train, but suggests you can get there by boat: "Head to the nearest Chao Phraya River pier. Take a boat heading towards 'Nonthaburi' or 'Wat Rajsingkorn' and disembark at 'Mahachai' pier. From there, walk straight for about 10 minutes, following the signs towards Mahachai Market." DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! 😆 (for those who don't know, Nonthaburi and Wat Rajsingkorn are at opposite ends of the Chao Phraya Express and it goes nowhere near Mahachai.)

That's the one. Inductive logic and all that. "Rational science" (is there another kind?) is based on evidence, for example when a personally-experienced BMW ride falsifies a "no BMWs on offer" hypothesis.

Don't overlook that Bangkok institution, the Bamboo Bar at the Mandarin Oriental. Jazz for him, cocktails for you.

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3242 square metres. That matches Google Earth's estimate for the area of the entire soi, except for the gated-off part at the far end (reputed to be where the owners live). The big question is, is it in @Olddaddy's price range?

I think I'm glad that I can't.

In the words of Sir Henry Rawlinson (he of Rawlinson End, not the Assyriologist of the same name), "If I had all the money I’d spent on drink... I’d spend it on drink". Substitute other goods and services as appropriate.