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Playa, Bistro, Markland, restaurant, food, Beach, Rd,
Playa, Bistro, Markland, restaurant, food, Beach, Rd,

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

Pattaya, friends & food 2022 & life is very good. I’m told Australia is getting more expensive every few months as opposed to Thailand which remains very affordable.

This group of reprobates dining at L’Auberge from the right are Bill Edge from Airlie Beach, yours truly, Joergen Ulitza from Melbourne & finally John Martin, aka Pothole Bin Laden.

Beautiful fresh vegetables

Pattaya, last quarter 2022

While we are on the subject of food check out these delicious vegetables from Playa Bistro on the ground floor of my condo at Markland.

Rain damage September 6

Living in Pattaya 2022

Not unexpected as September is Pattaya’s wettest month.

Impossible to stop this

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

The rain pours down from 2nd road, jumps the Beach Rd footpath & carries away the sand. I have lived on Beach Rd for 11 years & it’s always been the same.

Check out the Pattaya webcam, just click here.

Here’s a smile to brighten your day

Living in Pattaya 2022

One of the lovely waitresses from Playa Bistro on the ground floor of Markland.

Bye bye Sabai Resort

8th Sept Sabai

Lots of memories from this hoel, my friends & I stayed there for over 12 years from 1998.

Peter Hobbs from Sydney

Living in Pattaya 2022

 Peter has lived at 72 Wrights rd Drummoyne since 1983, I lived there for 6 years from 1979.

La Boulange Pattaya French Bakery

Pattaya, last quarter 2022

Situated on 3rd Rd near Big C extra, they make the best ham & salad rolls in Pattaya.

Four Australian lamb cutlets

Pattaya, last quarter 2022

From Big C extra at a cost of $40 AUD.

At L’Auberge with Brad Robbins from Townsville

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Waiting for our French oysters. 🙂

Gillardeau nunber 3

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Fabulous oysters from France, many thanks to the owner who gave us a 50% discount down to B900 or $36 AUD.

Heavy construction on 2nd rd.

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

This used to be a bowling alley, it’s na huge site which may end up as condos.

Drinks at Playa

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

A very nice Bistro & bar on the ground floor of my condo Markland, on the corner of Beach Rd & Soi 1.

Dinner at Playa

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

Prawn & asparagas.

Derek Pugh, a very old friend.

Pattaya, friends & food 2022

Derek & I worked together in the late 60s at MacDougals LTD, an office equipment company in Clarence St Sydney.

Derek, Ian Rich Paul Slaughter

Pattaya, friends & food 2022   Pattaya, friends & food 2022

I’m guessing this was around 2002.

Sadly we lost Richard yesterday, RIP.

Richard Blair is the big fellow in the middle, beside him is Ken Shelly. Here is a post from 2004 showing many more shots of Richard.

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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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