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26th
July 2012
I am supposed to be in Trang, Thailand at the moment but did not go
as I need to concentrate on work and save money. I am also booked to
go to Chiang Mai next month but at this stage I am unsure if I will
go or not.
I will definitely be going to Vietnam in October as planned.
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12th
July 2012
The Great Residence Hotel was terrible (had a "Sleasy" feel to it) -
in future I will be staying at the
Thong Ta Resort as
I normally do as it is much better and just as close to the airport.
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10th
July 2012
I'm now at Kuala Lumpur airport between flights on my way back to
Thailand. I have just been to
Sydney
(Australia
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up with the kids etc. My visit was short but good despite the cold
(down to 8 degrees at night).
I fly on to Bangkok this evening but will not land in Bangkok until
around midnight so I have booked an airport hotel (The
Great Residence Hotel) and will catch the
Airport Bus to Jomtien tomorrow
moring.
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2nd
July 2012
Yesterday Bern, Clive and I went to the horse races in Bangkok -
this time they were at the Royal Bangkok Turf Club course which
alternates with the Royal Bangkok Sports Club to hold races each
Sunday. We stayed for five races and between us backed the winners
of all five races and all left as winners. We then did our standard
bar crawl around the Nana area of Bangkok before returning to
Jomtien at around 3 am.
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21st
June 2012
I am in Bangkok for a few days - I had a doctors appointment for
Tuesday and I have another on Friday so I decided to stay in
Bangkok.
I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday just walking around Bangkok
and the major shopping centres. Central World is now operating
normally again after having being closed for a long period due to
the damage caused during the Red Shirt riots.
Today I am just going to laze around the hotel and do nothing.
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15th
June 2012
I am looking forward to my trip to
Sydney (Australia
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on 5th July after not having done much travelling for a while.
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30th
April 2012
I have not been doing any travelling but have been working - I have
completed the update of the
Perth City Directory which means
all the Austalian directories are now up to date - I am now working
on the
Birmingham City Directory which
will take a month or so.
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4th
March 2012
My trip to
Vietnam was quite tiring and
probably not worth the effort. The flights in both directions were
more than 30 minutes late departing and the immigration process took
more than an hour each end - I eventually got home in Jomtien around
12.30am today.
The immigration process at Bangkok airport seems to be worse each
time I fly - I fail to see why it should take more than an hour to
get into the country - They say they want to encourage tourism but I
heard a lot of unhappy visitors in the immigration queues. Also the
service level of Air Asia has fallen away whilst their fares have
increased - at least half of the last ten flights I have taken have
been late in departure - I think they may have grown to fast and the
management structure has not kept up. I already have
several trips booked for this year
(some of which I will not be taking due to work) but I doubt that I
will be booking any more flights with Air Asia.
I have decided to go to
Hurghada,
Egypt in May (for the whole month)
to finalise the purchase of the apartment I am buying, to get a
"Feel" for living in Hurghada and have a rest.
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2nd
March 2012
I am in
Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam, for a few days. This trip was
originally booked as a "visa validation" trip but I decided to still
come as I had already booked and paid for the flight. The Vietnam
"Visa on arrival" process is becoming so slow (1 hour) and
disorganised that I will be getting a visa in Bangkok before I come
next time.
The hotel I am staying at the Xuan Hue Hotel near the airport. This
hotel has very good customer reviews on Agoda but as far as I am
concerned it is no more than a standard budget Asian hotel (rock
hard mattress and pillows, TV with bad reception, noisy A/C, etc.) -
whilst it is relatively cheap (less than $15) there better hotel
deals in Ho Chi Minh City. On the positive side the owner is
extremely helpful and speaks good English.
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