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Not yours, I hope! ☺️

As the GBP rate is being greatly influenced by Brexit events, my opinion would be deemed a political comment, and therefore should not be posted here!

... except not BEING in the cold winter!

I took a look at the work being done at the far end of the beach this afternoon, the last time for a while. Contrary to my thought a couple of weeks ago, now I think that it IS looking as if they are going to build a walkway around the Dusit headland to the adjoining cove. Have a look at the pics - do you agree?

Don't you mean call their friends? ☺️

Thanks - I have been trying to remember what was there before. It has been closed quite a while now.

The beauty salon (CK Jenny) which used to be at the back of The Avenue (opposite So's Place) is close to re-opening in The Avenue at its new location - opposite Starbucks, at the bottom of the escalators.

12:50 at TT on Second Road today:

I looked in there last evening. Not a single customer, but a lot of girls (all dressed with more clothes than your average waitress in Patts.). I did a U-turn.

Some have been half-filled with pebbles, others with gravel. I saw that on Friday. Yesterday, even more strangely, I noticed that they had started to put a further membrane over that filling. These channels are a quite mystery - 1. If they really are for run-off water, why have they seemingly been made impermeable? 2. Why are they not along the complete beach - why just in certain sections? 3. Why in certain sections are they built immediately against the walkway and, in others, with a gap that has now been concreted in? 4. How do they propose to keep them clean of rubbish and rotting matter (like leaves)? 5. What is expected to happen at this junction? Friday Saturday

But at least that's a music bar where, theoretically, you go to listen to the music. Gogos and beer bars are places where you should be able to have conversations.

Yukky picture. Yukky rate. But thanks for conveying the bad news. 😔

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I was there before you and it was really quiet. Bit like a funeral of someone with few friends.

Something like Robin's Nest would succeed in there.

I gave up giving it another chance a long time ago. The food and service were poor and overpriced. As you say, loads of potential customers in the vicinity, so the fact that it has failed tells its own story. I suggest they have a relaunch and make it clear that they are making a fresh start. I would love it to be a success as it is convenient for me.

My entertainment budget hasn't been badly hit this trip so I thought I'd treat myself to a steak at Beefeater 😊

Quite a few people around Pattaya today repainting faded road markings. I wonder if someone thinks that the markings will be observed any more than they are currently!

We pondered over the purpose of the channels they have installed between the pavement and the beach, and I thought we had resolved they were for water running off the pavement and draining into the ground through these channels. I cannot reconcile that with what I've seen today - lining of the channels with some material that looks far from porous. Up outside the Thai Air office, a new concrete slab has been laid, surrounded by drainage channels. The drain that runs the length of Beach Road, from the Dolphin roundabout to the bend at the Thai Air office, seems to now drain into a dead end

Could that possibly be the number looking at the website rather than just the forum?

A few minutes ago at TT on Second Road: Sorry for the sideways shot. Some pesky people preventing a full frontal.

And this is how it's looking outside the Thai Airways office:

I took a look at the situation at the north end of the beach on Friday (1 March). Once upon a time there was a footpath that went around the Dusit headland, enabling you to walk to the bay beyond. Inevitably, it wasn't maintained and rotted away. I have been wondering if they would establish a beach around the headland, and thus give access to the bay again. The answer looks as though it is not in the plans. There was an intrepid guy seeing if he could walk around all the same, but was scuppered by the rocks.

Another brilliant decision! A few paces away from Villa Market in one direction, and a few paces from a good-sized 7/11 in the other.

Another one to watch is just the other side of Second Road, taking in the sites of the Grand Sole Hotel and the shop houses to the north of it - i.e. from the entrance to Centric Sea up to Soi 4.