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Click on the images on the left to download PDF copies of our most recent Koh Chang Guides and Maps. You can also pick up free printed copies when you come to Thailand. You can find them in Bangkok and Pattaya, at Bangkok and Trat Airports and at hundreds of locations around the Koh Chang area.
September 4th - Freedom! - Freedom at last. The new guides are finished and with our printers and barring disasters and touching wood we have some time to catch up on everything else, including this page which we haven't updated for a couple of weeks. We'll make the guides available for download in the next week or so. Koh Chang has done us a favour in generating almost no newsworthy events while we've been otherwise occupied.
The exercise in inertia that is the Koh Chang Grand Sale continues not to generate any events or news. Their website is now online so now if you would like to find out what their plans are for promoting Koh Chang then you can check out www.kohchangbusinesscenter.com. You'll have to learn Thai though if you don't know it already. Or you could use the translate button that they helpfully include and I suggest that you do if only to read the quite marvellous sentence, "Eat shrimp fall merrily with ink islander"; Surrealism at its finest.
Thailand Beer Taste Challenge - The Return: Regular readers will recall a few years ago that we condidered it might be a good idea to do a blind tasting of most of the beers available in Thailand and vote on which were the best and worst beers on the market.
Once again we have assembled a panel of experts to selflessly sacrifice some of their remaining brain cells to provide you with this essential consumer information. Check out the whole story if you want to find out the controversial and surprising results.
Has anyone ever done a tasting of all Thailand's different spirits and "Whiskeys" and lived? Maybe we'll do that next...
BB Divers have got themselves some of those underwater scooter things. Think James Bond and you'll know what I mean. They save you the effort of flapping your flippers (yes, i know, fins) as you survey the undersea world. They are light, high-tech and rather cool and yours for the day for a thousand baht.
We've updated our property page with a couple of pieces of land in Klong Son and a business in Lonely Beach so feel free to take a look and get in touch if you are interested.
The weather on Koh Chang over the last few days has featured plenty of sun and plenty of rain - sunbathers happy, frogs and jungle happy - it's all good.
Books: Our new bookshop is next to the main Post Office between White Sands Beach and Chai Chet. Also our Online shop is at www.BooksThailand.com. There are hundreds of books in about 20 languages and of course we've got a good World Cup selection of football titles in stock so feel free to come and browse or download a spreadsheet of all current stock here. We also buy books individually and in bulk in case you have any taking up valuable shelf space.
Over the years there have been quite a few businesses and individual 
photographers who have sold CD's of photos of Koh Chang. There have been some good photos but the overall standards have been fairly run-of-the-mill. But now there's a good one that we can endorse wholeheartedly. The photo collection is called - appropriately enough - Koh Chang Photography and has been prepared by Jon Milnes. There are some striking and original images and not just your standard beach view stuff. If you don't believe us then check out the new issue of our Koh Chang, Trat and The Eastern Islands guide. It contains lots of Jon's images and looks great as a result. You can get yourself a copy of the disk at offices of Scuba Zone all over Koh Chang or by calling 084-727-5413 or mailing jonathanmilnes@yahoo.com.
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