Pattaya Reports

[Gus69]

Lancelot.

Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to submit your wonderful experiences in your TRs.

Hoping you will be able to go back again soon, I have to wait until November.

[Nixonbd]

The quote above is the Baccara in Bangkok. I'm not possitive but I was shown the "sign" in Pattaya Baccara and I recall seeing a 700 barfine. Can't recall the ST and LT amounts since I didn't barfine from that club. Anyone know the prices in Pattaya?

700 BF and 2000ST; paid this time last year. I didn't BF until the end of the night, so feel I got more than just ST. The girl did not have to return to the bar anyway.

[BionicMan]

Sure you can. How much do BMW varry in price globaly, because of different taxes goverments put a. ? Cost of maintainance as well.
Women is not a car, so this situation would have been even easyer to handle. If man kind was not so weak.

Taxes are a national matter. So in the same nation you can't drive a BMW at the price of a Tata.

In some country you can drive a BMW at the price of a Tata elsewhere. But you need to change country to be able to do so.

[BionicMan]

Do they directly change INR to THB, or do they offer a better rate for USD?

Doesn't make sense to change one currency into USD and then into THB. You lose money.

I could change whatever decent money in BKK, Malaysian Ringitt, Chinese RMB, JP ¥ .

[Breadman]

The difference between a 600 and 1000 baht bar fine is $15. This is not a significant amount of money for me, especially if it guarantees that I have some great sex with a gorgeous girl.

How much do we pay to go to an FKK in Germany? Here in Moscow the going rate for 2 hrs with a girl is almost USD $300! It's even more back in the good old USofA.

But in the end you are right, to each his own. The important thing is we all have fun and share our experience to make it easier to have more fun in the future.

Stay horny my friend...

Uncle V.

I also found that having a local cell phone number helped bring the girls back without needing to barfine them a second time, plus the short time rate was usually a bit less since it was usually them asking to come over.

[Uncle Volodya]

If that's what you like and you think that price is fair, go for it. I just have a problem giving a bar 1000 bht for a girl. It is obvious a lot of people don't or they wouldn't charge it.

Me, I just don't like feeling ripped off.

Although we differ in the price for service, still enjoyed your reports. In the end it is about having fun.

The difference between a 600 and 1000 baht bar fine is $15. This is not a significant amount of money for me, especially if it guarantees that I have some great sex with a gorgeous girl.

How much do we pay to go to an FKK in Germany? Here in Moscow the going rate for 2 hrs with a girl is almost USD $300! It's even more back in the good old USofA.

But in the end you are right, to each his own. The important thing is we all have fun and share our experience to make it easier to have more fun in the future.

Stay horny my friend...

Uncle V.

[Breadman]

Baccara, bar fine is 600, short time is 2500.

The quote above is the Baccara in Bangkok. I'm not possitive but I was shown the "sign" in Pattaya Baccara and I recall seeing a 700 barfine. Can't recall the ST and LT amounts since I didn't barfine from that club. Anyone know the prices in Pattaya?

[TellAll]

I, like many other guys, like gogo bars because it means I can go out, have a few drinks and watch dozens of semi-naked girls dancing for a few hours before picking my favourite. That comes at a cost. Of course you can save yourself money if you go to the beer-bars, Soi 6 or Beach Road but for some people it's not just about 'having it' at the cheapest price possible, it's about enjoyment and the thrill of the chase (something some people seem to forget on here when they boast about how cheap they can find sex).

I find the whole argument quite tedious. Wherever you get your girls from, another guy will say he can get just as pretty girls available for cheaper. That's Pattaya. The type of girls I like are the pretty young things that are found in the gogo bars. I posted a photo of a girl I rated 10/10 at Crystal Club and I can safely say that I have never seen a girl that pretty in the beer-bars, on Soi 6 or Beach Road. Not that I don't think those places have some pretty girls but generally you get what you pay for and in my experience the gogo bars in Pattaya have by far the prettiest girls.

If that's what you like and you think that price is fair, go for it. I just have a problem giving a bar 1000 bht for a girl. It is obvious a lot of people don't or they wouldn't charge it.

Me, I just don't like feeling ripped off.

Although we differ in the price for service, still enjoyed your reports. In the end it is about having fun.

[Tomux 22]

Yeah, exactly. Sometimes it's a bit annoying, this cheap cheap cheap attitude. You can't drive a BMW for the price of a Tata.

Sure you can. How much do BMW varry in price globaly, because of different taxes goverments put a. ? Cost of maintainance as well.
Women is not a car, so this situation would have been even easyer to handle. If man kind was not so weak.

[Ekspat]

but for some people it's not just about 'having it' at the cheapest price possible, it's about enjoyment

but generally you get what you pay for and in my experience the gogo bars in Pattaya have by far the prettiest girls.

Yeah, exactly. Sometimes it's a bit annoying, this cheap cheap cheap attitude. You can't drive a BMW for the price of a Tata.

[Ekspat]

Can't really blame them.

Don't get me wrong, I don't blame them at all.

[Uncle Volodya]

Great work Lance!

These are an even better read the 2nd time around.

I will try to get my last, and final report form May 2014 up soon.

Stay horny my friend...

Uncle V.

[ActionOriented]

Bro. Try TT exchange in soi Diana. Best offer.

Do they directly change INR to THB, or do they offer a better rate for USD?

[Sir Lancelot]

what a disastrous day yesterday had been. normally i end my trips with a flurry of girls, yet somehow i spent my penultimate day in pattaya without fucking one. there's a saying in england if a footballer doesn't score many goals, that he 'can't score in a brothel' . that was me last night!

on the bright side, i no longer felt ill. as a result i planned to make up for yesterdays wash-out with three girls before i had to leave to the airport. every trip i set myself the challenge of sleeping with a minimum of 20 girls and my current tally was a disappointing 17. i needed a sprint finish.

i checked out of my hotel at midday and booked a taxi to suvarnabhumi airport at a small booth next to the reception area. it cost 1200 baht and left at 8 pm which meant that i had eight hours to fuck three girls. i dumped my bags next to the taxi counter and headed out in to the hot midday sun. first thing breakfast, then a lunchtime shag to get things moving. three girls in eight hours, i was a man on a mission.

there was a cheerful girl working at the 7 eleven on soi buakhao. every time i (or indeed any other customer) entered she said 'sawasdee ka' brightly. i always like encountering people who have pride in their job. i bought myself a ham and cheese toastie and ate it at the internet cafe nearby. i still wasn't sure what my plan of action was today. i perused the devil's den website and saw a few girls i liked. gik and mai both looked nice in their photos and a threesome with those two would be a great memory to take from the final day of my trip. but it was too late to book them and the early afternoon lineup at devil's den sometimes isn't very inspiring. also a threesome would take me up to 19 girls for the trip, but after 90 minutes and unlimited pops with two nymphos, i probably wouldn't have any fuel left in the tank for a 20th girl. i decided to give it a miss.

i decided to go to soi 6. it was 1. 30 pm and there were lots of girls perched on stools outside their bars. i spotted two girls on my first recce. the first was a cutie at offshore bar, a third of the way down towards beach road, who was eating noodles for lunch. i saw another good option at bar ole, about two thirds of the way down on the left. she looked sexy, had a nice body and her eyelashes were decorated with jewels. i got to the bottom of the road and turned around. i didn't have a lot of time so it would be one of those two. i back-tracked up soi 6 and the girl smiled at me from bar ole. she was pretty and had a sexy body but she had a gap in her teeth which put me off. i continued walking.

the cute girl at offshore bar had finished her lunch and smiled to me when she saw me approaching her. she looked young and although she wasn't a stunner, she had the cute and innocent appeal that i like. "would you like a drink? " i said and she led me inside. i bought us both a beer (120 baht) and we had the usual chat (what your name, where you from? . as we got to know each other she stroked my leg and i felt myself getting hard. after the 'flop' at rasputin the night before it was a relief.

her name was biw and she was 21 years old. with time at a premium i said "room 300, for you 1000 baht? " and she nodded her head. she led me up to a decent room with a long window overlooking the street below. i peeked through the curtain and could see girls sat on stools on the opposite side of the road, calling hello, to men walking past. the large double-bed was surrounded by mirrors and there was a picture on the wall of a naked blond playboy bunny type with huge tits. "is that you? " i asked and she laughed.

when you go with girls from soi 6, there isn't much hanging around. she locked the door behind us and we both started to get unchanged. when i saw her outside her tits looked a handful but when she removed her push-up bra they were tiny, just like her. she was less than five feet tall. we showered together, dried ourselves off and five minutes after meeting, we were lying naked next to each other on the bed. sadly she kissed with her mouth closed. it seems to be more common in thailand these days which is a shame. perhaps i'm to blame for targeting girls fresh to the business.

you don't have to ask soi 6 girls for a blow-job, it's part of the deal. she crouched over me and gave me an inexperienced blow-job, little more than bobbing her head up and down over my dick for a minute as i played with her small tits. i put a condom on and slid in to her. it was a great sight, her laid on her back, hair spread across the pillow and her legs in the air, smiling up to me as i pounded her. she was so short her ankles didn't reach my shoulders. i fucked her from behind and she rode me to a climax. i joked to her that i'd like to take her back to england with me in my suitcase. she was certainly small enough.

it was 2 pm and it was so far, so good, i had fucked my first girl of the day. my tally was up to 18.

i decided to go for a foot massage. by the time it was over i would be ready for another girl. i chose a place on soi diana and my masseur was a middle-aged woman. she wasn't in the least bit attractive but she had magic hands and i felt myself getting hard when she massaged my thighs. if she noticed she didn't say anything. i had to laugh. last night i couldn't get it up for one of the prettiest girls i have ever met in thailand and yet here i was being massaged by a woman my mum's age and i had a raging boner! near the end of the massage she spoke in thai to one of the other masseurs, another old dear. "my friend says you handsome" she said.

after some souvenir shopping it was 4. 30 pm and time to find another girl. one of the best discoveries of this trip are the massage shops around soi buakhao so i decided to try them again. i walked past the cluster near the top of soi 25 and there were about 20 girls lounging outside. "you want massage? " those closest to the street asked.

a pretty dark-skinned girl with braces on her teeth gave me a big smile. i walked up soi 11 and there were eight young girls at paradise. some recognised me from when i took nico so i waved. there are half a dozen places on this road and near honey a girl grabbed my arm and said "i give you good massage" . she was probably mid-thirties with tattoos and was spilling out of a dress several sizes too small for her. she had the kind of sleazy appearance i like sometimes.

i opted for the dark-skinned girl with braces. she was outside aree massage, about 30 meters down soi 25 on the right. her friend saw me approaching and nudged her with her elbow to let her know i had come back. she looked up and gave me a big smile. she was cute and had a distinctive look that made her look different to thai girls i had met on this trip. she had a dark-skinned ethnic look. like a gentleman i offered her my hand and she giggled as we walked inside. she held my hand tightly and seemed very bubbly so i knew i had made a good choice. she told me that she was 25 years old which surprised me as she looked younger (i would have guessed 19) . she was from udan thani and her name was beer. chok dee!

she led me to a room full of curtained cubicles, each no bigger than the size of a single bed. before long i was naked and face down on the bed as she gave me a back massage. after five minutes she said "me hot, sorry" and took her red t-shirt off. there was no need to apologise. she was wearing a black lacy bra and i could see 'beer' tattooed on one of her breasts.

"you very good" i said as i savoured her delicate touch. she asked me to turn over and when she saw i was hard she asked "extras? " i took her hands and pulled her on top of me and we kissed. she was a fantastic kisser, a major turn-on of mine. she was soft and sensual one minute and passionate the next, trying to get her tongue as far down my throat as possible. we agreed on 1000 baht for 'boom boom' . she took her bra off, revealing a small but perfectly formed pair of tits, and then slid off her knickers. she rolled a condom on to me and used massage oil as lube before slowly lowering herself on. her pussy was extremely tight and she closed her eyes tightly and played with herself as she wiggled her hips on mine in an inexperienced manner. i leaned up and sucked her nipples before flipping her on to her back and fucking her in mish.

in one of the other cubicles we could hear another customer being massaged, so it felt like we were doing something that we shouldn't be (ludicrous of course because everyone who comes to these places will get extras! . we tried to be as quiet as we could but before long we were frantically fucking. she tried to suppress her groans but the bed squeaked with each thrust, giving us away. i fucked her doggy-style and then she rode me in asian cowgirl, both feet planted on the bed, until i came. she lay on top of me, our bodies glistening with sweat and we kissed. five seconds after i had climaxed, a man groaned loudly from one of the other cubicles. beer giggled like a schoolgirl. we showered and got changed. what a great girl. she wasn't just cute and smiley, she was eager to please and a passionate performer. she was the type of girl if i lived in pattaya, she would be one of my regulars. i paid her and gave her a nice tip. she gave me a kiss on the cheek before i left.

two girls down and my tally for the trip was 19. just one more girl and i could go home happy.

i went shopping for treats for my office. no expense spared, i went to the 7 eleven and filled two carrier bags with nuts, spiced mango and seaweed. i spent a few hours at an internet cafe, giving my poor dick time to recover after the two afternoon workouts i had given it.

i had less than an hour left in pattaya and needed to fuck one more girl. when you have time constraints in pattaya, there is only one place to go. i flagged down a songthaew on 2nd road and for the second time today stepped on to soi 6. it was 7. 30 pm and my taxi was booked to leave lek hotel at 8 pm which meant i had just half an hour to find a girl, fuck her, get back to my hotel and get changed. it would be tight.

it gave me very little time to select a girl. if i saw any girl at all who interested me, i would pick her. no time for careful consideration tonight. about halfway down i noticed a girl outside soho with a nice face and four small stars tattooed over her eye. she smiled so i stopped and said hello, the time was 7. 38 pm and i had just 22 minutes before my taxi was due.

i dispensed with the usual getting-to-know-you drinks and said "300 baht for room, 1000 for you, okay? " . she seemed surprised at how quickly our fledgling romance was moving but nodded. as i paid, the manager rang the lady-drink bell and all of the girls came inside and were handed a free shot of tequila (to help them relax for the night that lay ahead). the standard of girls was good. i would rate soho with thai rose and red point bar as the best bar on soi 6.

her name was ao and she 21 from chiang mai. she led me upstairs to a typical soi 6 room with a double bed, a table, a chair and a separate bathroom. we quickly showered and before long we were on the bed. like beer earlier, she was a fantastic kisser. she gave me a really good uncovered blow-job and soon we were fucking. i lay her on her back and fucked her hard and fast and suddenly she groaned "i finish " . i hadn't so we swapped positions and i held her tits as she rode me to a climax. when she heard me come, she lay on top of me and gave me a lingering kiss on the lips before saying "again! . as we showered she caressed my dick, making me hard again. "one more time? " she asked. on any other occasion i would have happily accepted but i didn't have time. my taxi would probably already be waiting. i got changed, paid her and kissed her goodbye before taking a songthaew back to lek hotel. ao had been a great way to end the trip. she was a pretty girl-next-door type who clearly loved sex.

i got back to my hotel at 8. 05 pm and after a quick change of clothes my taxi was leaving the bright lights of pattaya behind and i was heading to the airport. i was pleased. three girls in eight hours and i had reached my target of 20 girls for the trip. i felt like i'd scored an injury time winner in the cup final.

it had been a good trip. i'd been with some great girls and had a lot of fun. bangkok was as brilliant as ever and kung from rainbow would live long in my memory. in future i may plan trips to give myself more time in the capital. burma was an interesting diversion, a beautiful place with some of the friendliest people i've ever met. it's not a place to go specifically for sex although yangon had enough to keep me busy for a few days. i smiled as i recalled the long-time threesome i had with two girls from emperor. and then there was pattaya. it was fair to say i had my moments of frustration, notably the friction burn, the horrible experience with sar and my illness at rasputin, but i still had a great time. bee from honey 2 had given me some of the best sex i've ever had and nico from paradise, som from airport and aom from crystal club were some of the standout girls. seeing macca wearing lipstick would also live long in my memory.

i fucked 20 girls in total and some absolute peaches. roll on the next trip!

please note: in april i posted a 21 day diary on this forum but subsequently all of the text on certain days disappeared. jackson has since explained that was due to isg migrating to a new server and invited people to re-post if they wish. my apologies if this lengthy post is a nuisance if you read it first time round but i hope it will provide useful information to others.

[Sir Lancelot]

Day 18, Thursday: Pattaya.

It was my penultimate day in Thailand so I spent a few hours on the beach, trying to gain at least a semblance of a tan to take back to England with me. It would be nice, just once, to walk back in to my office without some smart-arse saying "where's the tan? " (one day I'll accidentally let slip "I don't have time to sunbathe, I'm too busy fucking girls you could only dream of" . Afterwards I decided to find an internet cafe to write up my diary. The best value internet cafes are in the Soi Buakhao area and as I was walking there, I saw a blond Russian girl on 2nd Road wearing the shortest shorts I have ever seen.

As the afternoon progressed I began to feel ill. I wasn't sure whether it was something I ate or perhaps one of the cold drinks I bought from an ice bucket at the beach. Tap-water isn't safe to drink for tourists in Thailand and often ice is the main culprit of upset stomachs. I took some tablets and spent the rest of the afternoon reading in my room.

By early evening I felt somewhat better but still not 100% . My original plan for this afternoon was to go to Devil's Den for a threesome but I ruled that out. Two pops with two girls for 90 minutes would probably tip me over the edge! However I didn't want to waste my penultimate day in Thailand so I decided to go for a soapy massage. I had already visited the holy trinity of Sabai Dee, Honey and Honey 2 but wanted to try a place called RASPUTIN that I had ready about. It was easy to find. I walked along 2nd Road in the same direction as the traffic, past the top of Soi 6 and turned left down the narrow street sandwiched between McDonalds and Cosy's Bar. It was a dark street that opened up in to a large square. Rasputin was located in the far left corner.

The time was 7. 30 pm and there were 40 girls. It was a strange layout with a long fishbowl that stretched the entire length of the lounge area, which meant that no matter where I chose to sit, I wouldn't get a good view of all of the girls. A young papasan informed me that the girls were split in to different price categories. The cheapest girls sat on the right wore red badges and cost 2500 baht each, those wearing white badges were 3000 baht and the girls became more and more expensive the further towards the exit they sat. The papasan pointed to the girls at the far left and told me that they were 'models' . They were sat on comfortable armchairs to make them look more sophisticated and I almost choked on my soft drink when he told me that they cost a whopping 4500 baht. There were five of them and they were no prettier than the 2200 baht Honey 2 girls (at double the price) . As ever in these kind of establishments, the management had equated beauty to paleness / height.

The cheapest girls (2500 baht) were several rungs below the girls I saw in the other massage parlours. Most were fairly average but just as I was considering leaving, a pretty girl wearing 128 breezed past. She had light brown curly hair and a slim, sexy body. I followed her with my eyes as she walked to the fishbowl and sat down on a step amongst the 3000 baht girls. She was an option. A cute 2500 baht girl kept playfully waving whenever I looked in her direction. She reminded me of my best friends out-of-bounds younger sister who I have often fantasised about. This place has some nice girls but they're overpriced.

I was about halfway through my bottle of water (and therefore halfway to making a decision of which girl to pick) when I spotted a stunner walk past. She had a lovely figure, blonde hair and a gorgeous face. I expected her to be one of the 'models' so was pleasantly surprised when she sat amongst the 3000 baht girls. I watched her as she laughed and joked with the girls sat around her. She was spectacular so I decided to pick her before someone else did. I don't mind paying high prices if the quality of girl is worth it.

She was wearing number 9 so I informed the papasan of my choice. He called her name and she stood up to give me a look at her body. It reminded me of that moment when you go to a fancy restaurant and you order some wine and the waiter gives you a small taste before he pours a glass. You know you're going to say yes but you furrow your brow and pretend that you are giving it careful consideration. I looked her up and down. Slim, curvy and beautiful. Hmmm, yeah, I think I'll take her.

I paid 3000 baht at the cashiers desk and my jaw almost hit the floor when she walked next to my side. She had a stunning face, one of the prettiest I've seen in Thailand. Facially she didn't look typically Thai, she looked like an Asian version of the model Christy Turlington. She had light blond hair and was undoubtedly a 10/10 in my books.

She took my hand and walked me to the lift. As we climbed to the floor above, she told me that her name was Aew and she was 26 from Isaan. The room reminded me of a good quality hotel room with pieces of original art on the walls. There was a ceiling mirror above the bed and a large jacuzzi in the corner. A waitress walked in and asked "drinks, sir? " When I gave her my order she walked to the minibar in the corner of the room, pulled two drinks out and charged me 220 baht for the privilege!

Aew and I undressed and I admired her lovely slim body with small, pert tits. We stepped in to the jacuzzi together but it was very hot. As she soaped and lathered my arms and legs I was dripping with sweat. It was like being in a sauna. Normally by the time I'm in the bath with a girl, I'm rock hard and ready for action but I was feeling ill again. Perhaps it was the heat. Instead of relaxing and getting to know this beautiful girl, I was taking deep breaths and concentrating on not being sick. As I dried myself off I noticed for the first time that there wasn't an inflatable mattress, the most important tool of the trade for any discerning soapy masseuse. Instead Aew asked me to lie on the bed and gave me an oil massage. So not only is Rasputin much more expensive than Sabai Dee, Honey and Honey 2, it doesn't offer soapy massages either.

In fairness, the oil massage was nice. When Aew asked me to turn over I was wowed by her beauty again. She had perfect bone structure, flawless skin and big luscious lips. When our heads were close I tried to kiss her but she pulled her head away. "Cannot kiss customer" she told me before explaining that "most girls don't kiss customer the first time" . She sensed my disappointment because she smiled and said "okay, mouth closed" and kissed me on the lips. This would normally get me hard but nothing was happening. Instead my stomach was churning. I sat up and had a few mouthfuls of water. I wasn't feeling well at all. I asked Aew whether she could turn the air-con on. "Cannot change" she told me apologetically.

I lay back down and she started stroking my dick but there was no reaction. I caressed her firm tits but still nothing. She knelt down next to me and gave me a covered blow-job but I find it impossible to get stiff inside a condom. Last night I was rock hard for a 4/10 but now I had one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen giving me a blow-job and I couldn't get stiff! She sucked and sucked but I was as limp as a politicians joke. It was a combination of the heat, my sickness and the condom.

To be fair to Aew, she tried her best. She took my hand and placed it on her pussy and I fingered her as she sucked me. Still nothing. I couldn't even muster a semi. She took the condom off and rubbed her tits over me but that didn't work either. I didn't feel relaxed at all, I was concentrating too hard on not being sick. I told her to stop and indicated for her to lie next to me.

She seemed really upset. I cuddled up to her and told her that it wasn't her fault. She was silent for a while before saying "it's not about the money, I can make lots of money, I most busy girl" . I looked at her face and she had tears in her eyes. "I get no more customer tonight" she said and when I asked why she pointed to her sad face. "You beautiful" I told her but she seemed genuinely upset, her gorgeous smile long gone. She obviously had such pride in her job that she felt that she had let me down. I'm probably younger than most customers she has been with so she probably saw it as a personal failing. We got changed and no matter what I said, I couldn't make her smile. "Not your fault, my fault! " I told her but she said that it was her fault for putting the condom on. She had tears in her eyes.

Nothing I could say could make her feel better. I felt terrible. Mainly for her but also for me too. I still felt ill, not to mention the fact that I'the just wasted 3000 baht! When the lift doors opened on the ground floor she pointed for me to "get refund" but I decided not to. Getting a refund wouldn't just cost her money, it would reflect badly on her and she didn't do anything wrong. It was my fault for going to Rasputin in the first place when I felt ill. I should have stayed in my hotel until I felt well enough to go out. Lesson learnt.

I just wanted to get back to my hotel. I walked down Soi 6 which was busy with lots of girls. I saw a few cute girls outside Soho and Offshore but taking a girl was the last thing on my mind. I took a songthaew along Beach Road to my hotel and stopped off at a pharmacy to buy some stronger sickness tablets. They seemed to work but I still had a temperature. I lay on my bed under the air-con to cool down.

This was my last full night in Pattaya as my flight back to England was late tomorrow. As a result I had planned to sign off with a gogo crawl and bar-fine one of the girls I missed out on last night, Pim from Bachelor or the 10/10 from Crystal Club perhaps. Or alternatively I could head to Walking Street and bar-fine Nom from Airport or Tom from Beach Club. But I didn't feel well enough to go out at all. I felt sick. It was 10 pm and all I wanted to do was sleep. What a disastrous way to spend my last night in Pattaya.

I struggled to sleep. Some people count sheep when they can't sleep but I counted girls. Because today had ended up completely girl-free, I had only fucked 17 girls on this trip so far (had today gone to plan, the tally would be 19). I hadn't even reached my bare minimum challenge of 20 girls per trip. I decided that if I was feeling better tomorrow, I woud fuck three girls before my taxi left at 8 pm.

Please note: In April I posted a 21 day diary on this forum but subsequently all of the text on certain days disappeared. Jackson has since explained that was due to ISG migrating to a new server and invited people to re-post if they wish. My apologies if this lengthy post is a nuisance if you read it first time round but I hope it will provide useful information to others.