Friday, March 03, 2006

3 Mar

3 Mar - 'Untamed Travel' magazine, for sale at all good bookstores in South East Asia and V-Mart, Koh Chang, are revamping their Koh Chang page. If you think your business, bar, restaurant or resort deserves a mention let me know. Also they'll be a monthly section on 'happenings' - which is 'young person speak' for parties/events etc. If you want the world to know about your next party night, event or special offer for the magazine readers send me an email.

In what one Koh Chang based website has described as "the biggest night of violence since, ohhh, I don't know when but it wasn't like this when I was a lad", all the roadside mirrors located on hairpin bends along the hill between Whitesands and Klong Son were smashed a few days ago. Police have ruled out youthful hijinx and are looking for ugly people with a grudge or closet vampires.

If you enjoy irony, you'll like this . . . On a road in the south of Koh Chang there's a new 'archway' built over the road that welcomes visitors to the area of Koh Chang that was the site of naval battle between the French & Thai navies in WW2. 'Wel Come to History Navy' reads the sign over the road. The politically correct way to describe the battle is that the Thais fought bravely (i.e. the Thai navy was wiped out). Therefore, it is a tad ironic to see on the reverse of the overhead sign the words. . . . . 'Bon Voyage'.

Any divers on Koh Chang on 11 March are invited to get their diving trousers on for the 'First Annual Underwater Clean Up' which is being organised by people who like to organise stuff in return for pats on the back from DASTA officials. (Google it) Contact dive operators for more details and don't forget to ask why they chose the same date as the annual Queens Cup Elephant Kayaking event when there are 364 other days it could have been held on.

Bedroom in teak houseMore land etc . . .

I've now added info about small plots of land for sale from a half rai to 6 Rai. The most expensive being 8 million baht. See all the listings here. Also, if you're into teak wood houses, you'll like the photos of the three houses for sale on about 1500sqm of land for 5.5 million baht.

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