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to hull
and back
Mags Meanderings:
From Som Tam
To Mushy Peas
much ado about nothing
Time flies when you are enjoying yourself - or so the
old saying goes. It also flies when you are doing a bit of
decorating, as I found to my cost when the time suddenly
arrived to prepare this weeks ‘To Hull and Back’ without
one single glimmer of inspiration.
Obviously talking about the weather is a non starter,
because to talk about it would involve moaning which,
(see last weeks page), is not allowed.
Resorting to the newspapers for ideas also proved to be
a non starter. They had all been used to cover the kitchen
floor while pasting wallpaper. And in any case August is
traditionally supposed to be a bad month for news isn’t
it? Certainly there seems to have been even more media
attention than usual on some of our younger Royals,
who don’t seem to be able to do anything right when it
comes to work. They are damned if they want a career
and damned if they don’t.
At least British newspapers do have the option of making
scathing remarks about their monarchy. Goodness
knows how Thai newspapers manage to fill their August
issues.
The only hope was to look back at what was happening
- or not as the case may be - this time last year, and
lo’ and behold August 10th was the date of the Great
Bintabaht Fire, which pretty much destroyed Viking and
Cheers bars.
Just a month before the Great Fire, in July 2013, AWOL
launched an appeal for contributions to the Hua Hin
Bar Area Project. The idea being to build a record of
Hua Hins’ bar scene past and present, with names,
locations, details of changes over the years in names
and ownership, and where possible any juicy bits of info
on the owners.
As we all know only too well the bar scene in any Thai
resort can change rapidly, and Hua Hins’ is no exception.
Memories quickly fade. But unlike some other resorts
which shall remain nameless Hua Hin still has a relatively
short history of bars, especially farang ones. It also has
a fair number of expats who have been around for 15
years or more. A handful of bars have even remained the
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from just 350 baht
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same without changing hands for that period of time,
which is roughly the period we had hoped to cover in
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