Mysteryman

Ohhh, I see. I thought it might be that one, but was not sure. Is it really a fellow countryman who had the guts to give it a try? I suppose he isn´t as gay-unfriendly as another bar-keeper in Pattaya I once wrote about

Howdy! Yesterday a good friend of me (Swiss farang) in Pattaya sent a message that a Finn had opened a bar some 2 minutes walk from the now closed Come In bar. Have you heard anything about it?

Yes, I go there several times during my holidays, with boyfriend or alone also sometimes. Boss is a really nice guy, including his wife. Food is good, same kind I often go to eat in Oh-A-Harn-Thai restaurant.

Me and my bf came for holiday in May, I had booked Mosaik as many times before. But, upon arrival, entering the room, and seeing small ants walking around everywhere, and having to hassle with some stupid password, valid only for one computer, I at once thought about moving away. Only the stupid system with 1 password/computer was enough really. I had to go down to get 3 more passwords as we both needed 2 passwords. So we went to Pattaya Bay Resort. Everything fine there, just one password for all our phones, pc:s and ipads, but a tad more expensive. Hope Mosaik will get their things sorted out.

Well...thank you for your support in this case. This bar is not only for truckers, I guess the real truckers are a minority of them who visit. But he uses the Rahtarit association logo in his sign. Apparently some old friend of him came up with the idea to have one Rahtarit-place in Pattaya. The boss himself is no trucker. If you are interested, look up Rahtarit in google.

I see your concern about posting picture, and understand. We also post pics of boys here. His pics are openly on the net also, and you can see him even in youtube.

I just came back from Pattaya. I walked by in May, and saw this man in his bar, and thought I would say hello to him again, as I have done for some years. And I looked forward to a beer also. He sat there looking at his phone, and did not even look up to me as I approached him and said "Hello, is this chair free?" The conversation: He: Didn't I already tell you? Me: Sorry, tell me what?? When?? He: You have a boyfriend from here! Me: Yes, and he lives with me in Finland. He: Then you don't need to come here. and so it went on me trying to understand why, arguing about why...getting a good answer, but no The original reason for going to his bar the first time is that this bar is a bar for truckers. I've been a trucker for 20 years, not anymore though. Before we got along well, I always came to his bar in daytime alone. My boyfriend then usually being in WeCare getting a facial treatment. And he always came there also after he was ready, and he had a good chat with the lady that worked there. The boss just happened to be away when my bf arrived, so he never got to see us together... until last year in May. Then we sat there both having some drinks, and the boss came. We left soon and said goodbye, it was the last day of our holiday, and I did not notice anything. Perhaps the boss was not there as we left, I don't remember. I would not be so pissed off if we had come to this bar together the first time, and he had told me to back off, this is not a bar for gays. But in this case me and him have chatted a lot during 3 years on our 1 month holidays, and everything was fine. He never asked me about my preferences. I also enjoyed chatting with some truckers from Finland, we didn't know eachother from before.

Hello! Copy of my post in my Facebook: "This bar in Pattaya is very gay-unfriendly. When the owner knows you are gay, you have no right to enter the place. This happened to me, even though I have visited the bar for 3 years. Last year he found out I have a male partner. Therefore I was not welcomed any longer. He told me to go to Sunee area, where my kind of bars are. The bar is situated at Tuk-Com. We don't need this kind of bars, especially not in Thailand."

Howdy! You might already know, but I thought I would tell you just in case. Now you can try to see if you got caught on video, provided you was there in October 2012. http://maps.google.com/ Personally, I will not be seen, as I arrived on Christmas Eve. Looking forward to my vacation again. Arriving on the 26th of May. One month stay only. See you in Come-In bar ... Why there?? Well that's the bar I (we) usually go to, apart from Colonial and Up2U.

Exactly same here, and I have not found the guts to propose some other bars for him. It seems that the Thais only want to go where they can have a good chat with friends all the night. I feel I miss something, but in the end it's all the same i guess. I would not however be able to look for other boys either...

You said it! I dont go to many different bars when in Pattaya, and we mostly stay in Sunee. Come-In bar is number one for me. David and all of the staff are very friendly. And they have a great sense of humo(u)r too, sorry to all the Brits . Ps. I think I have more difficulties with the English writing than you. And I wish I could speak French too, but David speaks English good enough to be able to have a conversation.

Yes, this something I have noticed too, that you get "much" better rates at small booths that has nothing to do with any bank. Are they private maybe? I have never exchanged in any other places than the small shop on second street opposite Dream House hotel, Super-T I think the name is. There you have been able to get up to 0.50 better rates, than in them "official booths" In the end not so big difference, but you get a couple of "free" meals during a month . Looking at the charts, it seems like you get less bahts today for every currency. Then it means Thai-baht is stronger than before, so the problem we have with Euro is not the only reason.

I think Euro/Baht was something like 45-47 in 2006. In the following years it was at least that, and even more some years. I remember it was just under 50, could've been 2008 maybe. But last year it went down to 41. These figures are from the end of the years, October to December. What is the going rate now, if you change in the street? I have never focused on any other currencies. We have problem with the euro, thanks to Greece, so that is one reason for the bad rate. How is the rate for US dollar/Baht, and Pound/Baht and other currencies compared to years gone by? Has it gone down with almost 20 percent, as it has with euros? Or could it be that Thai baht has gotten stronger than before? Then it would be lower rates for other currencies also.

http://tinyurl.com/bobw6ql is an intresting site. It has a lot of advertising, so it might be slow to load.

Thank you for your effort in this!

Of course you only need to add an additional language, and then use your present keyboard, but do you really know where all the different thai-letters situate? If I would be a good typist, then I would not need to look at the keyboard when writing, but I am not. I do use the 10 finger system: 9 searching and 1 writing, even in my own and learned languages, hehe. I guess it would be hard for a thai too, to write โชคดีครับ, without seeing the keys. I have already added Thai to my bf:s laptop, so we dont need to begin downloading it in Pattaya, with slow internet. It was quite a big file for windows 8. I tested it and he did write his name in thai, but only through trial and error, finding the right keys. We have to remember laptop-keyboards differ a bit from normal, to which he is more familiar regarding thai.

Ok, I would like to know where one person, who run a bar in Pattaya more than a year ago, is. I only know that he should be in Chiang Mai. Does anybody know the name of that bar there? This just in case my bf gets this idea again of going there. He has never been there, neither have I.

Hmm, was Tim really gay? I read in some thai-newspaper on the net, that his longtime girlfriend, had left him a month ago, and this was the reason. http://tinyurl.com/dy9k6uk

Sorry I couldn't resist... He's planning to use them to get himself out of the car in case of a bad accident?

Thank you so much. We will do fine with a normal thai-keyboard also (USB), just connect it to his laptop. Then he needs a bit more space on the table, of course. I just looked at his keyboard, unfortunately, it has the letters in the middle of the keys, so if you would find some transparent stickers like this for example: http://www.4keyboard.com/thai-transparent-keyboard-sticker-p-128.html, it would not look so good maybe, perhaps covering a bit of the original letters. But I will wait for some advice from your swedish friend, if you remembered to ask him....

Yes thanks for the answer. This was just what I wanted to know. The stickers cover the original letters on your keyboard. Then I assume there will not be any suitable for us. I would need Thai + scandinavian Qwerty. The German keyboard layout is however not the one I want., it has ä and ö, but for example not the å. And I don't need the ü... I need this: http://tinyurl.com/bwryjle

You mean there are stickers that have thai and then what? I guess they don't have å, ä, ö for example. Them we need here. And how on earth have you managed to learn thai??? Bob does not sound like thai...you must be ฉลาด....

Yes! How come I didn't think of this before. I already have a pic of my bank-codes for logging in to my bank, when I am Thailand. I will take a pic now right away....

Do you have them? I don't mean them you can find in internet from the 60´s and 70´s. I mean pictures of your own, some you took yourself a long time ago. As we all know, my oldest pic from Pattaya is the one outside Top Man, the one that caused some discussion here the other day. I would very much like to see some from the days when I knew nothing about Pattaya. Would it be possible if we try to be "respectful"?