Where did you go today?

**Joe 90** · 13-08-2023, 03:38 AM

Originally Posted by malmomike77

The only thing 28 years old and viking is his Saab

Funny fooker

I think she has daddy issues

**Joe 90** · 13-08-2023, 03:39 AM

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

Met friends in BKK after dinner, enjoyed the view from the top of their condo too

Tip top view for a social gathering !

**malmomike77** · 13-08-2023, 01:05 PM

Eye, well just outside eye and that was Friday but i went there

**Stumpy** · 13-08-2023, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Tip top view for a social gathering !

I agree Joe. Nice pic from Mandaloopy. BKK does have some really nice skyline views at night. I compare it to NY, SF, Singapore and HK.

**Stumpy** · 13-08-2023, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by Mendip

Not really...

I feel for ya Mendy. Up until a few days ago it was rain and more rain. Last 3 days have been very nice but now everything will grow at double speed.

**DrWilly** · 13-08-2023, 08:35 PM

A classic car show. Warm sun, loud music, cold beers and food.

**malmomike77** · 13-08-2023, 08:37 PM

Were any of the cars older than you.

**DrWilly** · 13-08-2023, 09:05 PM

A 1934 Citroën and a 1938 one

**cyrille** · 13-08-2023, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by DrWilly

A 1934 Citeron

**malmomike77** · 13-08-2023, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by DrWilly

A 1934 Citeron

Did the company change its name in latter years

**Looper** · 22-08-2023, 11:09 PM

Went for a wander up Mt Cougal today

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Lower approaches

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Marking left by Surveyor Roberts in 1860 which I am happy to note no-one has yet defaced with a cock and balls.

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Final peak approaches

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Peak views

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Panorama

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My only company throughout the entire 5 hour walk

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While wandering round the summit I slipped on some loose gravel and landed with all my weight pressing my Abductor Policis Brevis onto this pointy rock

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Doesn't look much but it was stars-in-your-eyes dizzying painful and I thought I might have trouble climbing down

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But I made it safely back to the lower slopes as the sun sank

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Felt something behind my ear while driving back and it was this fooker.

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Lucky I got him before he got me.

Light refresher for afters. This Czech Velcopopovicky is good because it tastes like a heavy beer but is only 3.8% so does not mess you up too much when your tired from flogging your legs all day.

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**malmomike77** · 22-08-2023, 11:12 PM

Just one letter changed and it could have been so different

**Looper** · 22-08-2023, 11:28 PM

^No MILFs on the trail Mike

Thank fook it was my left hand I busted

**spliff** · 23-08-2023, 08:17 AM

Work.

**Mendip** · 23-08-2023, 02:26 PM

It wasn't strictly 'today' so I hope this is allowed... last week we went to Korat Zoo.

We've been many times before but the reason we went last week was because I'd heard they had some new spotted hyenas and the hyenas had been moved into a new enclosure. Hyenas are my favourite animal.

There's been a pair of hyenas for a long time but it looked as though they have been moved to a big new enclosure, but divided off from the new comers. Maybe it's like introducing a new dog to the pack and they need time to get used to one another before living together?

There were also new capybaras. I don't think they used to have these at the zoo.

And a new giant anteater. It would be nice if it did house visits... it could gorge itself in our kitchen.

I found the anteater fascinating. It's front legs each look like the head of a different animal and a bit of Google research suggests that this is a case of mimicry with the front legs deliberately looking like pandas to confuse a predator and hopefully stop it attacking.

**hallelujah** · 23-08-2023, 02:41 PM

I went fishing yesterday and the day before.

The sun is coming out, so I'm going fishing again today and will hopefully bag up on decent roach, bream and tench cos this place is shit hot with sweetcorn or bread for the better sized fish. Too easy with maggot cos you get plagued by little perch as soon as it hits the water.

No Lao Khao while I'm doing it though, Mendy, fortunately/unfortunately.

**PAG** · 23-08-2023, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Looper

^No MILFs on the trail Mike

Thank fook it was my left hand I busted

Great photos Loop's, envious of the location and activity options.

**Mendip** · 24-08-2023, 08:27 AM

I dropped the kids off at school at 7am today... and every other weekday morning.

One of the great things about working offshore is that you never get involved with rush hour traffic... or so I thought.

**happynz** · 24-08-2023, 08:47 AM

^ Even the motorbikes aren't moving. That's some effed up traffic.

**Edmond** · 24-08-2023, 12:38 PM

Everyone in the pic should be cycling. Problem solved.

**Simon43** · 24-08-2023, 01:39 PM

Where did I go? I took a trip on the new Laos-China railway from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng. This was not a holiday visit. Although I'm very happy living in Luang Prabang as I get older I am rather conscious of my own mortality. Get sick in LP and there are no decent hospitals within any reasonable distance (meaning the new private hospital in Vientiane or over the bridge to Nong Khai).

The new railway line cuts the travel time from Vang Vieng to Vientiane to less than 1 hour and there is also a new motorway between the 2 towns. So I took a trip to VV to see if there was a suitable house to rent.

VV is reknowned for partying, tubing and generally getting pissed and cracking your head open on the rocks in the river. A glance at Google Earth shows that all this action takes place on the west side of town, but the east side looks quiet. So I booked a hotel on the east side of town for a few days and rented a motor bike to scoot around town to see what houses might be available to rent.

My first impressions of VV were also my end impressions after a weekend in town - it is a total dump!!! The countryside and views may be great but the town itself is ugly. There is a good choice of tourist food available in the restaurants, but of course at tourist prices. The only supermarket in town was smaller than that in LP and sold nothing that could be considered as nutritious. (Of course there are local and fresh markets where healthy fruit/veg is available).

In the evening I took a walk from the west side of town and back to my hotel on the east side. I was confronted by a huge expanse of broken and potholed concrete, with rain-filled holes, a large number of soi dogs and absolutely no lights to avoid the former. This concrete strip was about 2 km in length and 100 metres wide and cuts the town in 2. In fact, Dr Google tells me that this is the old runway 'Lima 6' of Air America fame, used during the Vietnam war. At the end of the war, the runway was abandoned and now (about 50 years later), it is still there like an ugly scar in the town.

Despite riding my motorbike up and down every road in town and outside town, I only found a few houses for rent. There were many guesthouses up for rent, but the few available houses were shite, not even suitable for my mother-in-law

I left Vang Vieng very disappointed and returned to Luang Prabang on the train (it takes less than 1 hour and mainly travels through tunnels between VV and LP, a truly amazing feat of engineering.

I'm still on the look-out for a new house to rent. Renting in Vientiane would seem the sensible option, but rental prices are high when compared to LP...

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**armstrong** · 24-08-2023, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Mendip

I dropped the kids off at school at 7am today... and every other weekday morning.

One of the great things about working offshore is that you never get involved with rush hour traffic... or so I thought.

The trick is to drop them off super early to avoid the traffic

If I leave at 6:30am I'm clean through and at work in 10mins. 6:40am and I'm stuck behind every other bastard in the area.

**Stumpy** · 24-08-2023, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Mendip

I dropped the kids off at school at 7am today... and every other weekday morning.

One of the great things about working offshore is that you never get involved with rush hour traffic... or so I thought.

Man o Man Mendy. I know that stretch where you go. Its awful every single day and no real short cuts. Just suffer. As I have mentioned having lived and worked out there while some my say sitting in a van with my driver is easy, its the same traffic. I used to sit and do customer calls while we sat and didn't move. Some days I told Jamrak, Lets go to a coffee shop and wait until this clears out. He loved it. He would relax. I would do calls and updates enjoying a coffee.

**Stumpy** · 24-08-2023, 05:04 PM

Headed off into town to get some sand and dirt. Doing some SOD adds

**Mendip** · 25-08-2023, 10:46 AM

I went to the school again.

I leave home at 6:30 and it's noticeable better than leaving 15 minutes later but I still get nailed by traffic on the way back home. It's an easy 1 hour round trip, often around 1 hour 20 minutes.

I took a short cut back through the old city today and it was a bit quicker, and early in the morning the monitor lizards are out along the southern section of the city moat.

As I was stuck at traffic lights I took some pics. A pair together.

And at the next lights a couple more... one on the left climbing up the sloping moat wall and one on the right, swimming towards it. This picture is a bit Shutree-esque, unfortunately.

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