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Should be rather nice when completed.

I'm hoping Australia will make the visa waiver list at some stage, I know the Vietnamese Tourism minister was once pushing for it to happen (a couple of years back now) along with quite a few other countries. My last trip to Vietnam was way back in 1999 and I will be returning at some stage, I loved it in Dalat and Nha Trang back then.

Yes I do prefer cut too but I just don't like those badly cut ones ☹️

I was reading a story on Bangkok Post and this little bit was mentioned, possibility the couples wrong bag is one of the smuggling rings bags. Possible bag mix up

To me this means Thai cocks are so much nicer looking 😍

Singapore Airlines now as well.

Not going to be much fun in Manila, I think protests will be the order of the day with Duterte supporters.

Mostly female but there were guys doing foot massages downstairs so I would imagine they would also be available for massages in the rooms (mine was by a female)

I've always enjoyed walks in Lumphini Park and it was good to see so many water monitors in the park on my last trip, as well as quite a lot of eye candy😋

Apologies for not finishing my trip report from last November but I've had a lot to get through, not much else happened on that trip except another visit to Senso where I selected another 2hr massage (but I asked him to forget the oil and not touch the neck) and the massage was quite reasonable and finished off remarkably well. I did have what I would call a proper massage at Urban Thai on soi Thaniya but that for me was more a remedial massage as there was no extras on offer and I may add was a very good massage. That and I was invited to go on a private cruise on the Chao Phraya river with some old friends and it was a very relaxing days outing. The flight home was delayed by an hour which from memory is close to normal for Thai airways on the Perth flight and it was a bit rough too, plenty of turbulence along the way but arrived home ok. Given all that's happened / happening I am planning another trip later this year but not too sure of the date yet, with the hotel I am hoping to wind back the hands of time and stay at the Tarntawan again, it's been many years since I was there last. Currency exchange was mostly done at X-One on Surawong which gave me the best rates for the Australian "peso" but I did use the exchange at Silom 64 building a few times as I was going past on the way out for the evening. Had my first medical procedure a few days after getting home and it worked OK (3 epidural injections in the neck and restored a lot of feeling in the hands) but alas the big one has been delayed, it seems that I am not suffering enough to warrant such a major operation (oh well such is life). Not having full feeling in my hands and fingers (zero pain thankfully) is a nuisance but I'm not letting it control what I do so am continuing on with life as normal until it gets too bad and the time for the operation comes along. In the meantime my thoughts will be on a trip later this year.

I bet it won't be as smooth as possible though.

Last November I showed my business class boarding pass and they put me through fast track at immigration, I did arrive late at night so whether that had anything to do with it or not I don't know.

Frequent flyer points is my only gripe with Singapore Airlines, had a nice little bundle of them then one day when I tried to check what was there and if I could use them some idiot had deleted my Krisflyer account and SIA wouldn't (or couldn't) reinstate it. Since then, even though I joined the Thai Airways programme I only ever used it to collect points once and have never bothered with it since.

My last trip I only had a small carry on bag and put it at my feet (business class so plenty of foot room), going over on Thai Airways wasn't a problem but coming home the hostess picked it up and put in the overhead, such a small bag I would rather keep it near my feet especially if I were to fly economy.

I had a feeling from the start that this would just get swept under the carpet and nothing would come of it.