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Hard Day at the Office

Chip off the old block.

Adopt a Thai (clay) bear....

The Burmese haven't bombed the place. This is a Thai style demolition..

Bertie looks devastated.

New TEE Coffee Shop

Some time ago, we had a bit of a bombshell. The owners of the land the TEE Coffee Shop is situated on informed us that they wanted the land back....

We recently discovered that the land is going to be a warehouse of some description....

My mother in law took about 2 months to get over it (see wasn't happy!) But, where there is a will, there is a way..... and after lots of searching, we have now found this new plot, only a very short distance from the original coffee shop..

So, the new shop is currently 'under construction'. Taking what we have learned from the first outing, I believe this new shop will be more successful than the last.

Watch this (currently derelict) space..

Ladprao Hotel - One Year on

Was lucky enough to help out in the design of a hotel in Ladprao during my first year, that project is nearly finished, but whilst standing on the 8th floor, I took a photo of a hotel project taking place opposite. The photo above was exactly one year ago.

Amazing the difference a year makes eh. Pretty smart now, maybe not everybody's favourite style, but what a superb job these guys have done, and in pretty good time.

3rd floor installed at the 'new' Riverside

18th September 2009

All over the radio and Thai press there is talk of a return to economic growth in Q4, illustrating that the resilient Thai economy will quickly bounce out of the jaws of a gloomy global recession.

I personally think that might be a tad premature, if not a little over-optimistic, but I do believe that Thailand has a rosy economic future. My little observations of a hotel being built opposite a 'bolt hole' of ours seems to illustrate the point, as it rapidly grows skywards at an impressive rate.

10th July 2009

These guys are not hanging about! My uneducated guess of them finishing August 2010 might be a little late. Post 2 here / Post 1 here