Hua Hin Forum

David Gilmour - On An Island. Blasting in our semi-open air kitchen via a wireless connection from the computer in another room. Hope the locals appreciate it as much as we do...
It certainly beats the boom-boom stuff they blast out at 7am on Sundays.

VS

The City of Fremantle today went a step further and introduced a smoking ban on the footpath. A very popular area where patrons had their coffee read the paper and had a cig. Not much fun if you had to walk through the haze though. Fremantle's a lovely town - Parahandy and I spent a day there last ...

I think that both cats and dogs do have a kind of 'sixth sense'. Saw a fascinating programme on TV a while ago about dogs sniffing cancerous areas. The owners of the animals were so concerned about the attention and strange behaviour of their dogs that they got checked out - and did actually have ca...

So what happened to the Thai 'friends' - rumour has it that they just disappeared. Nice friends huh? And if the Thai 'friends' caused all the problems, surely the military mob who attacked them could differentiate between Thai and falang. I'm wholly ( sorry, Suffolk phrase meaning completely ) confu...

I'm currently teaching a course called 'Business with English' the English language side is emphasised and most of the students want to work for an international company. I fully understand that their long 'given' names are linked to lucky letters and are blessed by monks etc. But as far as their ni...

John, this may be a stupid question, but are you Thai? Do you teach Thai just in Hua Hin, or are you prepared to travel to homes outside Hua Hin? Both Parahandy and I would like to improve our Thai, but we live about 35 kms from Hua Hin, we also work full-time so to pop into Hua Hin for an hour or s...

OK, K. here's another kind of guide. Both Parhandy and I work here, but we can generally live on one salary (we put aside the other for emergencies and trips back home). One salary is nudging 30K a month. We only pay 2,000 baht a month rent, we like drinking beer (three large bottles for 110baht), a...

Agree with you totally Pete. I've read another story about this 'incident' and, it made out that the farangs were set upon by the military. As usual, gossip runs around and you never really know the truth, but we really don't need this kind of thing happening here. It reflects badly on us, normal, c...

We seem to be on the same wave-length here Dan. Never Let Me Go was superb (Kuzuo Ishiguro never disappoints) - gave me slight nightmares, but a fascinating read. Got 'The Kite Runner' in my case at the moment, was hoping to start it while invigilating hugely boring exams, but haven't quite managed ...

You're absolutely right K. - P. didn't notice a thing. He has retired to his bedchamber without even checking what's being going on. A hugely sensible move, considering the rising water problem. But are you going to be left high and dry? Condoking - so you've made a move to Waterloo, South again eh?...

I confess I read the first book - just because I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about. I haven't bothered, and have no desire to read any more. Good luck to Ms. Rowland, she's really hit on to a winner there, but not really my cup of tea.

VS.

You really are a brave man K. - I hope you know what you're doing. STOCKWELL It's daylight, so I think I'm safe - but as I've never been there I'm not too sure. I'm also leaving my options open to go South into a possibly seriously dangerous area, (I'm prepared), or to head North again. Not sure wha...

Bank......Hmmm, playing the wild card are you, or is this a bluff?

OK....I'm going for Chancery Lane (had to think about it for a while, but I see no option).

V.S.

BJ: I do understand your apprehension , but what I do know is they are both extremely professional, good at what they do, and have been doing, for quite a few years here. And that's good enough for us. Can't really say any more than that... V.S. Sorry Dawn, posted this after your bit. Delete it if y...

Big Jimmy: Absolutely right. Of course you shouldn't trust them just because they're from Glasgow - just like I shouldn't trust someone if they were from Suffolk. I'm not really sure how much information you wanted about Kinny & Sheena - they're not going to put their life history on their websi...