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We were on the same flights SIN-BNE-SYD and interesting to see how status offers slightly better seats. I had 23A on QF52 SIN-BNE while you had 29G and I had 27G on QF513 BNE-SYD while you had 48A. I could not be bothered with the refreshment and was able to sleep on the BNE-SYD flight.
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Yes it is interesting. I'd actually preselected 29G because I'd noted it had a vacant seat next to it, so I wonder where I'd have ended up had I not chosen that.
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I have spent 2 Songkrans in Thailand now and never again. The first I wanted to see what the novelty was all about, the second was an absolute mistake. A lesson quickly learnt is to stay indoors between 12:00 noon and 7:30pm during the Songkran festival.
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Yeah ditto, won't be going back for it (shame it coincides with our Easter, ie: easiest time of the year to get time off!) I found where I was it started mildly at about 12, was building up by 3 and come 6-early morning it was impossible to go anyway. The night I arrived it hadn't started, second night was the quiet one so I managed to walk around Patpong markets staying fairly dry (as mentioned, wet is ok, flour is not!) third night I'd been on a dinner cruise and got absolutley wrecked. By this stage it was 11 so I didn't bother going back out. Last night I was there, into the hotel at 4, dinner in the room and watched BBC all night!
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The Thais are generally OK it is the lowlife falangs that spoil it and intentianally go out of their way to hurt others. What sort of person would spray someone on a moving motorcycle, in heavy traffic, with a high pressure water cannon, that supposedly has been banned by the government but still on sale on the streets in open view of the police? The death toll from these type of deaths is astounding and would be totally unacceptable in any other part of the world
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Unfortunatley correct. Especially around Silom, appears to be a bogan magnet. I read in the paper while I was there that in 06 almost 500 people died in Songkran related accidents (mostly road accidents). Quite an astounding figure.