Page 13 of 23 FirstFirst ... 356789101112131415161718192021 ... LastLast
Results 301 to 325 of 555

Thread: Where's Coco?

  1. #301
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    ^^ The effort is much appreciated Lom!

    I've got a really good one planned today... will have to take Coco on the school pickup run!

    To be honest I think the Korat Tourist Board should give me a job.

  2. #302
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Yeah, I need to have a burnout now and again, although I've been out once here in the last 6 Months with this covid thing.

    I bet Nev knows a few anonymous hang outs. Snap a pic of Coco outside a few seedy looking joints, offer a green and he'll soon put you straight.
    I spent the weekend swimming and cooking cakes with me daughter! Enjoyable as that is, ya can't beat a couple of days anonymous bar crawling along Sukhumvit once in a while! I can feel a Bangkok trip coming on once the daughter's finished school next week.

    I know plenty of seedy places in Korat... but the wife's family is huge and chances are I'd get spotted.

    Many years ago a few of us went for a round of golf down towards Khao Yai, but it started tipping it down so we came back to Korat early. I was sitting having a relaxing pint when the wife called asking why I was back so early. A niece or some other spy had seen me sitting outside the bar and mentioned it to the missus!

  3. #303
    I'm in Jail

    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Last Online
    25-02-2024 @ 11:45 PM
    Posts
    11,602
    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    What I miss most about living in Korat is the option of going out for an anonymous drink... it's very small and has only a handful of 'farang' watering holes. I don't need that often, but now and again would be nice.
    You have time, work on your inner Peter Sellers and break out the disguise kit.

  4. #304
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    We were out this morning when Coco noticed a small temple with an entrance to the right. She wanted to check it out...



    The entrance was fenced off, but the gate was open...



    She's still not walking on the lead very well, so I carried her in...



    And behind the fence was a vacant lot of land...





    Where is this lot of land, and why is it vacant in the heart of Korat? Two greens on offer, one for each question.

    Location No. 28... Where is Coco?

    (Nev... you will probably know immediately, so let's give the amateurs a chance for a while... You could always send a private answer via a repo comment?)

  5. #305
    Banned

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Last Online
    09-05-2021 @ 03:25 AM
    Posts
    33,644
    It's the site for Korat's new Bullet train to Bangkok that you've mentioned.... in Baan Pachee?

  6. #306
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    I'd like to say you're close... but you are way off!

  7. #307
    Banned

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Last Online
    09-05-2021 @ 03:25 AM
    Posts
    33,644
    It's the new Power Plant at Navanakorn Industrial Estate

  8. #308
    Thailand Expat lom's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    on my way
    Posts
    11,453
    It looks like there is soot on the ground. The Flower market that burnt down?

  9. #309
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    It's the new Power Plant at Navanakorn Industrial Estate

    Ummm... no it's not!

  10. #310
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    It looks like there is soot on the ground. The Flower market that burnt down?
    Most of the flower market is still standing... but you're kind of on the right tracks...

    Something awful happened here...

  11. #311
    Banned

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Last Online
    09-05-2021 @ 03:25 AM
    Posts
    33,644
    It's a new temple/Aldi/Big C/shopping mall/gogo

  12. #312
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    ^ More awful than an Aldi.

    Tragic is a better word.

    What if I was to say there are no plans to build anything here...

    (that I know about)

  13. #313
    Banned

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Last Online
    09-05-2021 @ 03:25 AM
    Posts
    33,644
    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Tragic is a better word.
    Worse than the Terminal 21 rampage?

  14. #314
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    Yes... significantly worse and obviously not very well known about.

    This was nothing at all to do with the Terminal 21 tragedy and happened before Terminal 21 even existed (and I'm talking about the Sukhumvit branch).

  15. #315
    . Neverna's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2012
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    21,241
    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Location No. 28... Where is Coco?

    (Nev... you will probably know immediately, so let's give the amateurs a chance for a while... You could always send a private answer via a repo comment?)
    I know. PM sent.

  16. #316
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    ^ Nev knows... PM received!

    Green owed for Nev... but two more still on offer. I hope everyone's keeping count, I can't seem to dish these greens out fast enough.

  17. #317
    Thailand Expat lom's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    on my way
    Posts
    11,453
    158 Jomsurang Road
    The Royal Plaza Hotel collapse. Ghosts has taken control of the land so nothing can be built there
    Last edited by lom; 23-06-2020 at 11:07 AM.

  18. #318
    Banned

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Last Online
    09-05-2021 @ 03:25 AM
    Posts
    33,644
    ^ A bridesmaid again
    They did try putting a market there...


    Royal Plaza Hotel collapsed at 10.12am on Friday, 13th August, 1993. It killed 137 people and injured more than 200 others, many of whom lost limbs.

    Forty-seven of the dead were teachers and executives from the General Education Department who were attending a seminar. Others included both Thai and foreign visitors and hotel staff.

    The collapse was blamed on a substandard structural addition to the building, which doubled the number of floors of the hotel from three to six. The Supreme Court sentenced the engineer responsible for the additional construction to life imprisonment.

    The location of the hotel on Jomsurang Road remains empty. Operators tried to turn it to a market but the business failed.
    Nakhon Ratchasima hotel collapse remembered

  19. #319
    Thailand Expat lom's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    on my way
    Posts
    11,453
    Where's Coco?-royal-plaza-jpg

  20. #320
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    ^ Yes... very well done Lom.

    Despite being a prime plot of land, Thai superstition has ensured that it's remained undeveloped for the last 27 years. Mind you, when you consider the date of the Royal Plaza Hotel collapse it does make you think.

    I think the Thai/Chinese Temple at the entrance to the plot of land may have been built to commemorate the tragedy, however it seems very poorly known about in Korat in the present day. I vaguely remember it from the news in 1993... little did I know that I'd be living here 27 years on.

    Here is a pic from the day after the tragedy.



    And as Lom correctly mentions... 158 Jomsurangyard Road.




    And just so you buggers can see the risks I take to bring you this thread...



    Another little known fact about this location is that almost directly opposite that small temple, directly behind my photographer daughter's back, is a traditional Thai massage place where a sister-in-law works. No extras on offer there... not that I'd want anything... she's a right old boot!


    Oh... and well done Lom, two greens added to my spreadsheet for a prefect answer! Well done Nev, leading the spreadsheet... and bad luck Dill!
    Last edited by Mendip; 23-06-2020 at 11:35 AM.

  21. #321
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    Can't leave it there... time to lighten the mood a little...

    Coco has developed a terrible slice and wants to sort it out. She joked that she'd be OK on a dog-leg right (), but sadly for her most the fairways are straight, narrow and surrounded by jungle either side.

    Where did Coco try to improve her driving? Location No. 29... Where is Coco?


  22. #322
    Banned

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Last Online
    09-05-2021 @ 03:25 AM
    Posts
    33,644
    Aek Sima?

    X46C+3M Hua Thale, Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima District, Nakhon Ratchasima


  23. #323
    Banned

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Last Online
    09-05-2021 @ 03:25 AM
    Posts
    33,644
    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    most the fairways are straight
    Ahh so it's a golf course, not a driving range.

    That Suranaree looks alright. Is there horse racing there too?

  24. #324
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    ^ Nah... the bit about the fairways was just a weak attempt at humour...

    The pic is indeed of the Aek Sima driving range, the only one in Korat that I know about.

    The bride at last!

    Very well done Mr Dill, a green added to my spreadsheet!

  25. #325
    Thailand Expat
    Mendip's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2019
    Last Online
    Today @ 12:45 AM
    Location
    Korat
    Posts
    10,777
    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Is there horse racing there too?
    Maybe... maybe not...

    Maybe Coco will check it out one day...

Page 13 of 23 FirstFirst ... 356789101112131415161718192021 ... LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •