http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye An Outsider Inside Thailand Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:37:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2002/11/moving-about-in-a-home-away-from-home/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2002/11/moving-about-in-a-home-away-from-home/#comments Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:00:48 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=82 Abridged & Published in Chiang Mai CityLife Magazine - January 2003 A Level Playing Field - Part 1 CHIANG MAI, Thailand - 27 June 2002 I’d been almost 24 hours on the move. I’d decided to travel from the airport to the hotel by air-con taxi. After agreeing the price to Pattaya (Baht 1,000), and loading the baggage, I was starting to believe I was in the correct country, when my first experience of Thai driving skills - between the Domestic terminal and the expressway on-ramp, convinced me of it. The idiocy of the truck that carved us up made the taxi driver ask me for a cigarette – something no other taxi driver has done since; ergo, it was a seriously close shave. It set my opinion of Thai driving logic (and skills) from that moment on. An opinion that has never changed, and maybe never will ...]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2002/11/moving-about-in-a-home-away-from-home/feed/ 1