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A commuter's lot is not a happy one
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/07/2018
» Commuting in Bangkok has never been much fun and last week it got a whole lot worse if you happened to be a regular traveller on the BTS. The word "frustration" springs to mind, with perhaps a touch of "exasperation", "agitation" and a general feeling of "disgruntlement". It was definitely not good for the blood pressure.
Welcome to Bangkok, join the queue
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 13/08/2017
» Passengers at Don Mueang airport last week were understandably a trifle distressed after having to wait more than four hours late at night just to get through immigration.
Let me hear those balalaikas ringing out
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/07/2017
» It's not often I can remember where I was four days ago, let alone four decades, but 40 years ago this week I was standing in a very damp Red Square in Moscow.
All you need is love … and a little bit of luck
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/02/2016
» Five decades ago, Jackie DeShannon had a big hit with the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song, What the World Needs Now is Love. If you remember that, you’re probably as wrinkly and crinkly as Crutch.
Have you heard the one about the hippo?
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/08/2015
» I had been hoping to lighten the mood with a few of the best jokes from the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe which concludes in Scotland this weekend. Unfortunately, the jokes are either not particularly funny or I can’t understand them. So prepare for a quick groan.
A new look, but did anybody tell the cabbies?
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/01/2015
» Returning to Suvarnabhumi airport from the Northeast last Sunday, I decided to try out the new-look taxi system with the impressive-sounding “automatic queue-card kiosks”, rather than my normal practice of sneaking up to the fourth floor and grabbing a taxi from outside the departure lounge.
The right time to look on the bright side
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/01/2013
» Well, here we are in 2013 and wondering, rather nervously perhaps, what's in store for us in the Year of the Slithering Reptile. Unfortunately, it will most likely be a grim year, but we'll leave the gloom and doom stuff for the experts. It is time for a bit of positive thinking.
Nobody does it better than Daniel Craig
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/11/2012
» Just got back from watching the latest Bond film, Skyfall, and most enjoyable it was too. The last time I saw James Bond in action he was helping Queen Elizabeth II parachute into the Olympic stadium in London. Fortunately this time around he bypasses Buckingham Palace and the royal corgis and he's back to his day job of saving the world, or rather MI6, from a particularly weird villain.
Big Ben with legs might have been more fun
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/07/2012
» Every Olympics gives birth to mascots, most of them highly forgettable. Just try and remember a decent mascot from the last 40 years _ they don't actually leap out at you _ Misha the bear maybe from Moscow 1980, or Syd the Platypus from Sydney 2000.
Welcome to the land of queues, please stand by
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/03/2012
» One thing the current immigration woes at Suvarnabhumi have highlighted is that no one likes to stand in queues, be it at airports, banks, buffets or bathrooms.