Ruthrieston

Thank you bkkmfj2648. Luckily for me I get the flu vaccine for free from my Health Insurance company every year. I simply cannot understand why the Thai health care system is not providing the Covid Vaccine at all now. I have a couple of underlying conditions and am 66 yrs old so I am at high risk.

I really don't understand why there are no vaccines available now in Thailand. They handled the covid pandemic really well, but suddenly there are no vaccines to be found anywhere. I agree that it would be sensible to start wearing masks again now.

It appears that I can no longer use Wise to transfer my pension from the UK to my Thai bank. Apparently this is due to an "upgrade" of the Thai bank's computer system. Upgrade?? Presumably I shall have to go back to using the expensive Swift option. Bah humbug!

It appears that I can no longer use Wise to transfer my pension from the UK to my Thai bank. Apparently this is due to an "upgrade" of the Thai bank's computer system. Upgrade?? Presumably I shall have to go back to using the expensive Swift option. Bah humbug!

I fled from my home in Pattaya to Bangkok on 16th, since Songkran finished here on 15th, and I shall stay safe and dry here until 20th when I return home. Bah humbug! This Grumpy old git is happy here!

My first trip to Thailand was in 1998, and I have been living here since 2011. In earlier years I remember that Thai couples would never even hold hands while walking in public, in more recent years it is a regular thing to see. Presumably culture changes over time. I really love seeing the Tomboys holding hands with their girlfriends these days. Though I am confused by the disappearance of the Tomboy clubs that I used to see on Third Road here in Pattaya, which all seem to have vanished.

Thank you daydreamer for showing us this video of Sir Ian as Maggie Smith snogging the seriously cute Jimmy, I watched it yesterday and I still can't stop laughing!

When I moved to live in Pattaya in 2011 I was the proverbial butterfly, having three young gentlemen visiting each day, but in less than a year I fell in love. As he was less than half my age I paid for him to have a room, and I encouraged him to have a job, and he worked as a receptionist in a hotel. After six and a half years I discovered that he was gambling and he asked me to pay his debts a couple of times, which I did. But I then broke off with him as I could not trust him and could not afford to go on paying his debts. Then Covid hit and I continued to pay small amounts into his bank account until the pandemic lifted, then I stopped. Breaking up with him broke my heart and I cried for a year. Never again!

The only thing I want to miss is the water throwing nonsense that makes Pattaya a seriously dangerous and extremely annoying place from 12th to 19th April every year. Stupid drunk farang throwing buckets of water at people riding their motorbikes to work and knocking them flying off their bikes under moving cars. The death rate during Songkran is appalling. I hide in my condo until 16th and then flee to Bangkok until 20th, although if Bangkok is to carry on until 25th that is going to be a disaster.

Viewtalay 5D actually. Khun Jeab is great and she has a few other Thai lawyers working on the team now. Avoid the Kevin idiot, he is an antivaxer.

I am sure you can find a handsome Tomboy to take good care of you.

Pattaya also has dangerously high levels of pollution, the air is so hazy that I can hardly see Koh Larn.

I stopped using baht buses years ago, it was ridiculous being packed in like a tin of sardines. For years I used motorbike taxis, but they are dangerous too, often driving crazy speeds and almost never giving me a helmet to wear. Now that Bolt Taxi app is here I am so grateful, and the prices are good, often the same or even less than I was paying for the motorbike taxis. Picked up in the front of my condo building and delivered to the door of the shopping centre I want to visit, from Pratumnak where I live all the way to Terminal 21 is 120 Baht.

I have never touched this social media nonsense and I have no intention of doing so. Watching families eating while the baby has a phone propped in front of him/her, the three year old has a phone on and the parents are both looking at their phones with no conversation at all is seriously bad for all of them.

I agree entirely. I live in Pattaya, where the Songkran madness lasts a week! I hide in my condo from 13th to 16th and then flee to Bangkok which is like a ghost town while everyone is recovering from the three days of madness, and I return on 20th.