Another quiet day in Pattaya
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Should now be in Pattaya but yesterday had a change of plan. Obviously too many distractions, easily happens here. So now flying to Shenzhen in China on 10th December. Not sure where that is and arrive 11pm which isn’t the best time to arrive but such is life. So now a case of hanging around here waiting for the visa. But could be worse and a friend arrived from the States on Sunday so good to catch up. He did admit he was here a few months ago with an American girlfriend and she insisted they went to a ladyboy show. Worse for him he was dragged on stage, she took a photo and then put it on Facebook !. How to lose credibillity with friends. And he says she still keeps on going on about how beautiful they are. Yesterday some young guys from England arrived at my hotel and being first timers wanted a bit of reaasurance. Last night I met one coming into the hotel foyer with a girl. He goes to me “mate, can you promise me this is a girl”, I go “you will soon find out”!.
From what I was told it is the government who put the 150 baht charge to use the ATM so cannot blame the banks on this one. But to take out 10 pounds on the ATM using my Barclaycard means 6 pounds in bank charges before interest charges – bet they don’t tell you that in their advertisements so anyone coming here be warned.
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