Siam Sawasdee Pattaya

... in both Vietnam & Thailand is a scooter with a child on the front, the Dad next, the baby behind the Dad & the Mom on the back holding everything together. There are several pet dogs in Thailand so it is not uncommon to see a dog in the basket of the scooter with a fish net over top holding it in and the whole family on behind. The stray dog population of Thailand is pretty big as well. We have seen quite a few obvious stray ...

... had to sit down below. Thus turning into possibly the worst 40 min of my life.  We inhaled so much carbon monoxide my throat, lungs and head hurt. Every time I turned around the entire boat full of people were asleep. Not boading well for us at all. I was not feeling well so got up to try to go outside and get some fresh air. Unfortunately it had just started to poor! I guess there was just no winning. Luckily we did start to feel better not long after ...

... We walked up the street which was fairly lively and choose a girly bar to sit in and play cards after Stefan had left to go and get his homework done.All sorts of street hawkers, girls of all sexes! Kids, animals the works, non stop entertainment.Our bar seemed to be the retirement bar all the 'girls'   had seen more than their fair share of birthdays.Basty drank my beer, I won at cards, then it was back to the hotel by tuktruk.Earlier in the day Alan had photographed a rather ...

... you got all you could dring vodka shots.<br><br>On the last day we booked into our new hotel and got lost looking for scooter hire. Said our goodbyes to everyone. Stevie finally hired a scooter and we kept getting lost not a fun experience with the way the thais and stevie drives. Last couple of days in Pattaya i spent with my dad went to see his new house which is really nice.<br><br>Overall we had a brilliant time in Pattaya and cant wait to go back in October to meet Abbie and Nathan.

Where do I start? I proliferation of bars, Starbucks, McDonalds, the number of tourists, yet again the old Western men and young Asian girls, speed boats, banana inflatables, street vendors selling blow up beach toys, no chance to eat Thai food here, geeeees! This place is a middle age bogan's paradise! As I sip a beer listening to huge rock ballads by White Snake or Led Zeppelin way too loud, I get to watch a ...

... there, I met with the head nurses and gave them the toothbrushes and oral hygiene instruction including the use of the disclosing tabs. The babies were having nap time so the nurses invited me to have lunch with them. They were very happy with my donations. I was later led to a building that is divided into 3 very large rooms. One is for the new born babies. They stay in that room until they are 8 months old and then they are ...

... years ago! That was weird seeing someone i recognised!! So all is good in lovely thailand, i'm hoping to get to kuala lumpa (malayasia) for 3 days soon for a little break, one of the girls has to do a visa run so we thought if we can get a cheap flight we'll go for a few days so she can get her visa stamped and i get a mini break so hopefully next time i right i'll have a bit more exciting news for you all !!! See ya! write soon xxx

... wild dogs everywhere who for the most part are docile but some of them lunge out to scare you off. They all have mange and are missing parts - an ear here, a tip of the tail there, one cloudy eye, etc. Not a pretty sight. So off I go in the pitchy black past the mangy dogs. They say if they come at you you should bend down and pretend to pick up a rock. Pretend hell, I'm going for the real thing ...

... room hunting. Eventually we got a decent sized bungalow for 500 for all 3 of us including bathroom, overlooking the sea, and about 20ft away from the sea when the tide is in. It was a nice little place, but the only problem was it was a 20 minute walk away from the first bar, or shop or even road. It was just too isolated for my liking. In fact, I think the Thai government should introduce beach taxis on Koh Chang, to save our weary Western legs from over-use. The rest of ...