karon steve

Is the swimming pool bar on the dark side still going? You throw coins in the pool and they strip naked to go get it.

Never heard of Wasitai before, It's going to come in handy I think. Thanks for posting.

I have made short trips to Myanmar but haven't stayed there for any length of time. The Karon name I use is because I had the Bonsai beer bar followed by Our House a bar, restaurant & guest house in Karon beach Phuket. As far as I know I am not on a watch list but who knows. I do not have a criminal record and have only ever been stopped by Customs twice in my many years of travel. At the time I did wonder why the IO was a little abrupt this trip so there may well be something in what has been said. I will ask next time.

2 nights ago I flew Etihad BKK-AUH-LHR and breezed through both Swampy and T4 in less than 20 minutes each. A slight delay taking off at Swampy meant that I had to skip the lounge in AUH as it was only 55 minutes between deplaning and boarding the LHR flight. My passport still won't scan at Heathrow so had to use the desk agent yet again.

My gamekeeper friend had a black Patterdale and a right hard dog it was. Seen pulling a fox out of it's lair whilst the fox was clamped on it's face.

Swapping one cow shed for another?

In a similar vein many years ago my stepdaughter, at the tender age of 13, asked me to buy her a "talking dick". Apparently this is a talking dictionary.

If in Siem Reap do you mean Pub street, Walking street and Sok San road area?

I was recently in Siem Reap and the prices were approximately $12 - 18 for the bus and $40 - 50 for a taxi for about a 6 hour bus or 5 hour taxi journey to Phnom Penh. You can fly up for about $90. The new Siem Reap airport is an hour and $25 out of town. A $36 e-visa will get you though Phnom Penh airport quicker and allows you to buy a single ticket if you are undecided on where to next or when. Mine took a just over 24 hours from applying to getting it. Pass app is the Grab equivalent in Cambodia. I never bothered with a Cambodian SIM card so I used the phone number of an obliging waitress. An aside is that to this day I still see where and when she uses Pass sending me e-mail. Personally I stick with riel for everything as if you use US dollar you end up with both anyway. KISS principle. Siem Reap is a lovely town and handy for the Temples, Tonle Sap etc. but P4P is limited. Sok San road has some shop house girly bars. If you overstay and have to pay a fine it's worth it as they march you straight to the front of the immigration line telling all and sundry that you overstayed.

Or one drink split 7 ways? Didn't NDTV show an Indian guy's bill where he spent 200,000+ baht in an afternoon on Soi 6?

What have you got against the Glovers or Yeovil Town FC?

No he wears stockings.

I much prefer the one that doesn't talk.

I have learnt that Cambodian funerals are much quieter affair than the Thai counterpart. Dirge like music prevails. 20.00 and all is quiet. It is quite strange listening to a Khmer funeral dirge in the right ear and the western music blaring from the bars on Sok San road in the left. Something different eh?

The infamous "fcukit" frog in Thailand is also found in Cambodia where it calls out "happy" instead. Thailand is dethroned as the Land of Smiles. Khmer win hands down.