Quality Resort at Pattaya Hill

We overnighted (on board) in Laem Cabang. This is a huge port and I mean huge. Just out our little cabin window we can see 8 container ship "filling areas". There are 2 freighters right across from us that are being emptied & filled at the same time. Yesterday we were amazed to see just how big this port really is. There is a steady stream of container fields, logistic offices & warehouses that run approximately 10 km from ...

... U.S. gets a bad rep around the world. He was prejudice, racist, skeezy and overall just someone I wish I hadn't met and had to claim as one of my own.  He had been living in Thailand for 8 years, but it seemed like he had been here for 5 seconds. <br><br>Anyways, once that boat trip was over we got to Ko Sichang and spent the day relaxing at the beach and walking around the small town. The town was really cute, except for being really run down and the ...

... So back to Walking Street, again, as if the first time wasn't enough, we were overwhelmed with the sights, the sounds, and the smells. We couldn't find anywhere to eat that wasn't seafood, expensive, or covered in scantily clad women. Luckily we ran smack into a van with a table in front occupied by the tourist police. I don't know who they were or what they thought they could do in the middle of the strip, but I was glad to see them. A nice man, who said he was ...

3.30am - we had a rather early wake up call by the roosters who felt everyone should be up at 3.30, and pretty much continued crowing until everyone was up! 5.30am - time to get up and get ready to go grass cutting 6.00am - another dangerous drive on the motorbike to cut grass, this time I managed to cut a bit more, but not nearly as much as Chai ...

... adopted a modernization strategy of infrastructure development, stable governance and entertaining many international relationships, in an effort to prove that they had the ability to exist successfully in the middle between the colonized and the colonizing nations. Over time history has thrown together a middling mixture of cultures which makes Thailand what it is today. Thai culture is in between Chinese, Indian, Western, Japanese, Khmer ...

... we can get the heck out of here and hit a real beach. We also booked two nights hotel in Ko Samui. After getting that out of the way we checked out the daytime shopping around here. There are lots of stalls on the streets and plenty of malls. We ended up having lunch at McDonald's in one mall. I'm not really sure how that happened since we all love Thai food ...

... on my lap while Jessie(human) got a kiss! The Zoo was a lot of fun. The best day of my trip to Thailand was the third. This day I went to the Pattaya orphanage. Here I met one of the sweetest three year olds ever. His name is Tawatcheri but he is called Tawat. He loved my camera, which made it nearly impossible to get a picture of him, luckily other people did! He was very quiet but so lovable. When it came time to leave I was ...

... halusivat 120THB/henkilö (2,7&euro;), mikä nyt ei sinänsä ollut juuri mitään. Lähdettiin liikenteeseen ja matkan varrella äijät roikkuu ovella ja aina liikennevaloissa tai muissa pysähdyksissä juoksevat täyttä vauhtia pitkin katuja huitomassa ihmisiä kyytiin :-) Edellä ajeli ilmeisesti joku kilpailevan yhtiön bussi ja kilpajuoksua nämä pölvästit aina juoksivat kadulla seisoskelevien ihmisten luokse ja yrittivät repiä kyytiin. Kerran ...

... but here, even little babies ride on the seat with the parents with a bottle in there mouth and no helmets anyone. It costs 20 baht, or 50 cents to ride to the market. at the market , I finally found some hangers. can you imagine living 2 weeks without hangers? Oh, the suffering I go through. I also rode the songtaew (covered benches in the back of a pickup truck) way up the beach to the Thai beaches - cleaner, less crowded. I sat under a coconut tree and read a book ...

... wait for the 1.30pm minibus to Pattaya, so I decided to send an email or two. Somehow I managed to delete all of my emails just as the internet cafe server crashed. The guy who ran it (a westerner) and I spent 20 minutes trying to work out the problem, but I had to leave so I left him to it at 1.20pm. Downstairs, the bus was ready to go, early, like the boat. Thai's have no idea about time. "Ten minutes" can mean an hour, "12.00pm" can mean 11.45am... its all ...