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Pattaya Motorcycle Club enjoys inaugural ride

German celebrity celebrates his birthday at Pattaya’s Casa Pascal Restaurant

PILC Holiday Bazaar 2003 just two weeks away

Pattaya Motorcycle Club enjoys inaugural ride

The Pattaya Motorcycle Club kick started into life last month, with meetings being held every Friday evening at the “Old Speckled Hen” pub on Jomtien Beach Road Soi 9. This is a non-discriminatory club with members from any nationality and riding any make of machine being welcome, the only proviso being your machine should be able to cruise comfortably at 80kmph, with overtaking, or “get out of an emergency situation quickly” speed of up to 100kmph. (We are not suggesting you break the speed limit but need to be sure your machine is sufficiently large enough to handle long tours!) It is a highly social “family” style club, where your wife/girlfriend will be as welcome as you.

With 18 motorcycles, 1 support vehicle and 40 club members (the majority being female Thai pillions piloted by English, Australian, German, Canadian, Welsh, New Zealand, Dutch and American riders), the Pattaya Motorcycle Club’s first run was an extremely successful event.

With this in mind regular club rides are to be conducted using sensible cruising speeds with riders spaced evenly in a staggered formation, with an experienced ride leader or “road captain” in front, and an equally responsible “tail end Charlie” bringing up the rear. All rides will have been thoroughly reconnoitered with the road captain knowing where all petrol, refreshment and sightseeing stops are in advance. Whilst this type of club and riding is not to everyone’s liking or style it is going to be the format for the Pattaya Motorcycle Club, again emphasizing the “family” aspect ... some of our wives or junior pillions may not actually like blasting along at 100kmph!

The club’s first run was held on Sunday September 7: this was a 100km round trip to Nu’s Cafe on Ban Chang Beach, taking in some lovely scenic routes including the temples and lake at Wat Yan Sang Wararan and the Buddha Mountain, Khao Chi Chan. With 18 motorcycles, 1 support vehicle and 40 club members (the majority being female Thai pillions piloted by English, Australian, German, Canadian, Welsh, New Zealand, Dutch and American riders) it was an extremely successful event with all members happy and enthusiastic for this club to continue.

Ideas and proposals for regular ride destinations are welcome from all: next month the club will hopefully be riding to Laem Mae Phim on the coast in Rayong Province for an overnight stop, after which they will build up to a week long tour in December to Chiang Mai for the 3rd Annual Chiang Mai Bike Week.

So, if you are reading about this club for the first time, if you are a motorcycle enthusiast who wants to meet, ride and socialize with other motorcyclists, if you have a wife or girlfriend who would like to join you for a ride rather than sit at home while you go “out with the boys” come along to the “Old Speckled Hen” in Jomtien on any Friday at 7 p.m. and check out the Pattaya Motorcycle Club ... they’re user friendly!

Contact: Martin Smith, Pattaya Motorcycle Club, tel. 09 990 9342, e-mail: [email protected] or see the website: www.pattaya-mc.itgo.com


German celebrity celebrates his birthday at Pattaya’s Casa Pascal Restaurant

Casa Pascal is becoming more and more renowned as “the” place to celebrate birthdays. Restaurateur Hannes Suhm, alias Rudi Kn๖pfli, a famous radio entertainer from Germany, celebrated his 44th birthday on September 2 at Casa Pascal. Hannes came all the way to Pattaya for this special occasion to be with his good friends, including Pascal Schnyder and his wife Kim, Ranjith Chandrasiri and his wife Chitra, Elfi Seitz and Dieter H. Pr้court.

Hannes blows out the candles on his birthday cake.

Also joining the birthday party were Fridolin Schnyder, Pascal’s father and two friends of Hannes from Freiburg in Germany, Bernd Winkler and Peter Leube, who traveled with him to Pattaya.

The party started with champagne and ended with excellent wines from the Pascal “wine cellar”. In-between a fabulous menu was served, much to the delight of all the party guests.

We don’t exactly know when the party ended, but it was said, it had been very “early” (in the wee hours of the morning)!


PILC Holiday Bazaar 2003 just two weeks away

The PILC Holiday Bazaar 2003 is in just two weeks time and being held at the Royal Cliff’s Grand Orchid Hall on Saturday October 4th lasting from 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. Come and enjoy the fun! Year after year this event is going from strength to strength. This year we will have over 60 vendors, some new, from all over Thailand and around the world bringing you the best for your shopping pleasure.

There will be fresh water pearls, silver, onyx and other various types of jewelry. You can shop for fabulous furniture, ornaments, antiques, children’s books, greeting cards, fabrics, bags; Japanese kimonos, educational toys, angels and deer, lacquer-ware, clothes, pottery, Christmas ornaments, paintings, fruit cakes, and we can certainly go on and on! Don’t miss it! Most items are manufactured for export and not to be found in Southeast Asia.

We have other fabulous prizes for our grand raffle such as jewelry from Thai Byoux, gold from Larn Thong, gym memberships from Marriott Resort and Dusit Resort, treatments from Beauty House, carpets from Pandit, 21 inch JVC flat screen TV set, bicycles, handbags from Jim Thompson. Also featured are vouchers from Amari Orchid Resort, Bruno’s, The Balcony, Pan Pan, Foodland, Friendship, Horseshoe Point, Hard Rock Hotel, Estee’ Beauty Salon, Pattaya Mail, and again countless more items.

Transpo International will be there to help out and pack free of charge any items you may wish to send back home. For more information contact Arlette Cykman PILC, chairperson special events, at 038-300-325.