Hua Hin Forum

My wife and I both had our ears vacuumed yesterday at the ENT clinic on Petchkasem opposite Soi 51 (Dr Piyanuch, I think the name was, a young woman). The cost was 880 baht -- 200 baht an ear, plus 80 baht for drops to treat my wife's ear infection. No free coffee, I'm afraid, but top-end health car...

I've had two operations in Thailand -- the first one a prostatectomy 12 years ago in a private hospital in Petchaburi, which cost me around 60,000 baht, and the second two years ago in the Hua Hin Hospital, where my bill came to 25,000 baht, most of which was the cost of a private room for a week. A...

I must admit it has never occurred to me to learn to read and write Thai, and no, Sidthetroll, I don't feel the least bit humiliated. Just as I didn't feel humiliated at not learning to read and write in Arabic script when I lived in Iran, or in Chinese hieroglyphics when I lived in Hong Kong. But h...

Yes, it's Noi. He's also been a regular in the darts league for many years. Plays for one of the Cat Bar teams.

I quit in 1988 after 32 years. I'd just moved back to the UK from Hong Kong and found myself faced with a 100% price rise and the non-availability of US Camels, of which I'd been smoking a carton a week for the previous decade. I went the easy way - cold turkey. Trying to cut down is only torturing ...

The seven 'dangerous' days don't seem to be that dangerous, then, since 34 deaths is just under the average for every day of the year in Thailand.