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Some interesting ip addresses.

I would fully expect the Secrets board to be shut down with out warning.....That would fit in perfectly with the previous with out warning major thread chops........ The Secrets board has been very poorly managed for a few years now.... For a looooong time it was really a great place....

Got some second hand ones you can have for half price.

Washed Baby on Saturday

For some!

26 of them because they cannot get on Secrets.😀

havnt been but have heard good reviews by some

I don't see any other promotion for Cambodia anywhere so it would be kind of silly to let the board go in my opinion anyway for what it's worth

may be shares

First photos. After describing the very nice beaches in Ban Phe district, I realized we hadn't been there since we got back from Buriram. Solved (from earlier today). The beach. To the left is the start of the hill going up to Ban Phe town. A lonely Banana boat driver looks for customers. He had plenty of business later. I'm not very good at cell phone photography (blurry). One of the good things about this beach is the well maintained forest canopy at the edge. The gents at the nearby table shouted "hello" to me earlier to show that they were also drinking Sangsom, and if I ran out let them know. As I said, a friendly lot, here. More poorly composed photos later.

So I've been living in Muang Rayong a little over a year, so I thought I'd offer a description of the place. This is coming from a retired guy with a couple young children. We've been renting, but have decided to stay, so we'll buy a place early next year before this lease runs out. Rent here isn't terrible, we're staying at a 4 bed/4 bath house in a gated community for 20KBaht/mo. The house was laid out for an invalid parent of the owner, so it's a bit odd, but the kids use the wheel chair ramps as slides and like it. We've been looking at new builds. 3-4MBaht will get a good sized 3 bed/2-3bath house. Figure another 500KBaht to finish it out. We'll also look at existing houses for sale. Schools are good. From upscale Thai private schools to foreign run Catholic schools. Our daughter is in one of the latter. I'm amused that because her English is so good, she's occasionally asked to translate between the American/Canadian/Australian/NZ teachers and the Thai teachers. Our son is autistic, and the Rayong provincial government entered him into their system so he now attends a special education center not far from the house. There's a wide variety of health care options. We use the Bangkok Rayong hospital because it's two minutes from the house. There is the usual Bangkok system price premium but it's less expensive than Bangkok Pattaya hospital. The road just outside our village is the main restaurant/bar road. Many great Thai restaurants with live music, a very good German restaurant, very good Italian/Asian/steak fusion place, and even a soapy massage place that I haven't tried but mentioned to a punter on another board who was visiting, and he gave it mixed reviews. The local malls have the usual mix of stores and restaurants. Sizzler, McDonald's (I have kids), KFC (kids), Burger King, Pizza co and hut, a myriad of chain Japanese places, etc. I can find most of what I need here but I still visit Pattaya a few times a year for some harder to find shopping and cuisines. There are also good mom & pop restaurants and markets around the city. We honeymooned at a resort on the beach just eight minutes from where we are living now 18 years ago. Unfortunately the beaches haven't been looked after so well, but we're 30 minutes from the very nice beaches and excellent seafood in Ban Phe district before you climb the hill into Ban Phe itself. 30 minutes the other direction is Ban Chang, with a good sized retired Farang community, with the associated amenities. The people here are extremely friendly and helpful. It almost doesn't seem like a city at all. They are especially gratified if you can speak Thai, as there is a good sized foreign population at the nearby industrial estates that they run into regularly who generally don't. Within a couple of weeks of moving into our rental house, my wife and kids knew pretty much everyone in the village from the mothers and children get together at the village playground every evening. Every one helps each other with finding things, covering bills while away (we visit Buriram at least twice a year) and invites to homes or local festivals. They also dress for Halloween here, which my daughter had missed since we moved to Thailand. Speaking of festivals, they have several a year in the Rayong sports arena grounds which are adjacent to my daughter's school. So for the 3-7 day festival picking her up from school is not much fun due to the traffic, but a least we get a good view of what rides/shows/attractions we might want to visit. Finally, after discovering it took as long to get to Pattaya by car as by air when I lived in Buriram, Rayong is much better. Due to the distance from our house to the Buriram airport and the fact that it only flies to Don Muang. Now when I want to go I call a Taxi the day before, and around 1 hour after pick up in Rayong I"m at my Pattaya hotel. So I think I've found the right place for me. I can visit Pattaya for a few days a few times a year, but live a quiet family life in the relative sanity of a small Thai city for most of the rest of the year.

in 12.5 hrs , off to bed now cos We have to get up at 2 am and drive to Heathrow

Something to do with Bristol Rovers / City methinks ......... Cary Grant born there and John Cleese West Country boy also covering his bristles ....... team shirts look like the old Bristol Rovers ones ??? Getting warm ???

Oof, we escaped another invasion....... Yeah, yeah, I know... 😁😁😁

Irish Wolfhound, soi 4 Pratumnak, closed.

I hear only good reviews ad well.

Unbelievable that this should happen so soon after Billy going. The guys who gave us two of the most iconic moments of our history gone within a week. It's really taking time to sink in.

Cherry trees are in full bloom. A bit too overcast for good pics. You can see the burn from last June's fire in the background.

Stevie Chalmers, who scored the winning goal in the European Cup Final in 1967. Like Billy McNeill, he also suffered from dementia latterly. I am convinced there must be a link between the players of that era and the heavy leather balls they were heading. R.I.P.

Just won Last Post Wins for the 734th time over there right now. So all's good.

Damn it. If it had been "so long, and thanks for all the fish" I would have been the last post winner.

Told you boys just a bump in the road

malay. speak english ok but write is hard

red wine fixes the problem

What is your first language, just being curious?

It is noticeably better... but that's not always good. Some sets look fake because they are so detailed and that is distracting. Sharper is not always better...

yes 136 st. nice bar not so busy befor camboda new year. simlar pattaya little different

Actually 36 online at the moment.

Like Benjamin's new venture 🙈🤣🤣🤣

KISS actually sell air guitar strings at 4 dollars for an empty packet!.

None of them show the inventor of the ironing board.

Work going on on Highway 2...

Some great colours there. I bet in the fall time the colours must be amazing!!

That looks great. Could eat a few plates of that. salad with olives looks scrumptious.

Fixed.😀

Watched series one of this,plus 2 episodes of series 2 yesterday.Only three and four 45 minutes episodes respectively..Great crime documentary series by a former police detective who was the main exposer of Jimmy Saville's crimes.He revisits unsolved cases that may have been committed by convicted killers. Really worth a watch if you like this type of show.

Skooby Bar on Second Rd closed.