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21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
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Well guys/gals, Just got in from Tokyo about an hour and a half ago. Pretty ragged. It was a great trip. Phuket was very busy given it was the low season. Got hotel bound for about 2 1/2 days due to non stop torrential rains (got to know the wife better). Went island hopping on a boat and on that day the weather was great.

To make this coin related, if dcamp78 and tbirde56 would PM me, I have at least part of your requests.


.........Rick
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  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    Glad you had a nice trip!

    Singha aroi mai krap? (was the Singha delicious)??

  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    (was the Singha delicious)??

    Hi Tim, Is a pigs Pr**k pork????

    Rick
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  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    Said like a true sailor!! image

  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,738 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome back! Would love to see some pictures image

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  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    Hi Guys,, I uploaded quite a few pix to my PC. I will try to get them on webshots ASAP and put a link up. Right now I am a limp noodle so to speak...........Rick
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,457 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hi Tim, Is a pigs Pr**k pork???? >>


    ?????

    I knew a couple people in Thailand who had the nickname moo (pig or pork). An insult here in the US but very proper in Thailand. Also knew people nicknamed gai (chicken).

    Welcome back. Those monsoon rains can be a killer.

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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    sa wat dee! Sa baay dee reuu? Pra thad thai pen pra thad tee wi sead mak.image
    So did you enjoy your trip?
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  • TheKidCollector1991TheKidCollector1991 Posts: 722 ✭
    Hey!

    I went to Phuket aswell!
    Well I stopped there over there from the cruise I was on.
    Lovely place..
    2nd time I went there.

    It's become too comercialised after the Tsunami.

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,457 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's become too comercialised after the Tsunami. >>


    Phuket was comercialised back in 1986 when I was last there.

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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Rick - know how you feel, the trip from SE Asia to the US can sure take the starch out of a person!

    Will be facing the same "problem" in about a week, currently sitting in a hotel room in Singapore facing a 24+ hour trip home.
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  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    Well we had a ball. The trip back was good. We got back Friday and today Sunday, I feel like my body clock is back on schedule. We'll see tomorrow when I get to work............So, here is a link to some of the pix I took while in Thailand for anyone that wants to see them..........Rick

    Link to Phuket Pix
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  • GazzaGazza Posts: 543
    Great pics Rick.

    We're off to the Philippines in 5 weeks time with 4 nights in Hong Kong on the way out....... fake slabs anyone, put in your orders nowimage
  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Great pics Rick.

    We're off to the Philippines in 5 weeks time with 4 nights in Hong Kong on the way out....... fake slabs anyone, put in your orders nowimage >>



    Gazza, you'll probably see some rain in the Phils too, depending on where you go. Tail end of the monsoon season.

    Hey Rick, do you still fly free on Continental?

  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    Hey Rick, do you still fly free on Continental?

    Hi Tim, Yes. Not only that, but we took Thai Airlines from Narita to Bangkok and Bangkok to Phuket and it came up to less than $200 round trip for both of us (not each). I am eligible to retire from Continental in which case I would retain the free flight bennies on them as well as the HIGHLY discounted fares on just about every other carrier. Not a bad gig I'd say.............Are you still in the PI?

    Rick
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  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Hey Rick, do you still fly free on Continental?

    Hi Tim, Yes. Not only that, but we took Thai Airlines from Narita to Bangkok and Bangkok to Phuket and it came up to less than $200 round trip for both of us (not each). I am eligible to retire from Continental in which case I would retain the free flight bennies on them as well as the HIGHLY discounted fares on just about every other carrier. Not a bad gig I'd say.............Are you still in the PI?

    Rick >>



    Very nice! I used to fly AD-75 when I was with DHL, but alas, those days are over.

    We moved to Florida a few months ago. Will probably get back to the Phils once or twice a year on biz and pleasure.


  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Hola, went through your vacation pics ala slideshow and felt as if I was there! Very pleasant...image
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  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    Hola, went through your vacation pics ala slideshow and felt as if I was there! Very pleasant...

    Thanks, Glad you enjoyed........Rick
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  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    BANGKOK, Thailand - A passenger plane filled with foreign tourists crashed Sunday as it tried to land in heavy rain on the island of Phuket, splitting in two as it was engulfed in flames, officials said. At least 66 people were killed.

    The budget One-Two-Go Airlines was carrying 123 passengers and five crew members on a domestic flight from the Thai capital of Bangkok to Phuket, one of the country's major tourist destinations, according to the Thai television station TITV.

    Survivors described their escape from the airplane's windows as fires and smoke consumed the plane.

    "I saw passengers engulfed in fire as I stepped over them on way out of the plane," Parinwit Chusaeng, a survivor who suffered minor burns, told the Nation television channel. "I was afraid that the airplane was going to explode so I ran away."

    Phuket's Deputy Governor Worapot Ratthaseema told The Associated Press that at least 66 bodies were laid out in the airport building.

    "At least 66 people have been confirmed and 42 have been hospitalized," Worapot said, adding the remaining passengers are missing.

    Worapot could not say how many of the dead were foreigners but he said among the dead were Irish, Israeli, Australian and British passengers. He said as many as 27 of the injured were foreigners.

    An Irish survivor, identified as Sean, told of being badly burned on his arms, legs and back as he escaped the flames. Speaking to TITV from a local hospital, he said he knew something was wrong even before the flight landed.

    "You could tell when it was landing it was in trouble," he said. "It was making a noise, this bang."

    Chaisak Angsuwan, director general of the Air Transport Authority of Thailand, said weather played a part in the crash.

    "The visibility was poor as the pilot attempted to land. He decided to make a go-around but the plane lost balance and crashed," he said. "It was torn into two parts."

    One-Two-Go is owned by Orient Thai Airways.

    The crash is the country's deadliest aviation accident since Dec. 11, 1998, when 101 people were killed after a Thai Airways crashed while trying to land in heavy rain at Surat Thani, 330 miles south of Bangkok. Forty-five people survived.
  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, saw that this morning. To bad it was at the start of their vacation.......
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  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
    Great postcard quality pictures!
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