Just returned from what has become my annual visit to Thailand. Hated to come home from the nice warm (some would say hot) weather there to the cool to cold weather here however one segment of the tourist population there about drove me start WWIII. Well, not quite but there is has been a growing number of Russians visiting there, especially in Pattaya, where I spend some time, and they are a noisy boorish lot who need to learn how to act in public. Even when trying to get through passport control at Suvarnabhumi airport on the way home, they were noisy, running all over the place like they owned it, and one even poked me in the back with a finger ( think) with a sharp fingernail instead of politely asking me to move so they could get by. God! I felt like screaming: RUSSIANS GO HOME. Well, they were but so was I. Jeesh....
After returning home I discovered that my hotel of many years, Le Cafe Royale in Pattaya, is now up for sale. This disturbs me greatly as I fear the wrong type of people will buy it.
Oh well, limited finances will probably make it next to impossible to continue these annual trips though I would like to visit Chiang Mai one more time. I have not been there in several years and want to see Ben one more time. He and that city are on my bucket list.
Now it is time to renew my season tickets to the San Francisco Opera and it will soon be time to do so with the symphony. At least I have those two things to look forward to. Would like to return to Paris one more time but Europe is damn near too expensive for me now.
Oh well, c'est la vie.
