Bangkok Life Part 5

Hello Everybody,
A bit of a quiet week, although very knackering! What with getting up at 06.30 to go to my Thai lessons, then the Gym every other day and the other days on my bike! It’s a good feeling to be falling asleep the second my head touches the pillow.

I’ve included a picture of a fairly nice house next to the Golf Course that I play, just to give you a feel for prices, this is a 5-6 bedroom detached house, probably all with en-suite, a huge plot of land and separate servant quarters, comes with fitted kitchen and fully furnished. It is about 10 miles outside central Bangkok, so is quiet and as good air quality. Maybe the price in Duffield or Allestree would be £350,000 minimum. The cost I’ve been assured is 5.5million Baht or a cool £75000. Apparently, if you use the builders finance, he will throw in a brand new Honda Jazz car as a sweetener.

This week’s beer, is the well known in the UK “Tiger” Beer. It as a flat sweet taste, nothing to write home about, it is available on draft in Bangkok at £1.15 a pint, at the local Supermarket it is 40p per half pint can, the strength is only a poultry 5%, this is definitely a tourist beer, and I’ve worked out you will to pay a huge £4.80 to get up to full fighting cadence. If you liked Skol, you’ll like Tiger. In all fairness it reminds me of Hull AFC,( The Tigers) not very good, no class and only softies like it.

Taste 3/10
Ease of getting pissed 4/10
This week’s fruit is the Salaa, it is
Value 3/10

Total score 10
about 70mm x 40 mm and as a very tough leathery spiny out, you have to peel the outer to get to a brownie fruit, and as you can see from the picture, it looks like someone’s ass, so I now call it the ass fruit. The taste is surprising, it as a sour taste but with a sweet after taste, it as a stone in the middle, you can buy them ready stoned and peeled for about 40p per kilo.

Just off to see “War of the Worlds”, hope it’s good.

Speak to you all soon

Chris.