My local newspaper had a screaming headline last week about a middle aged guy who had just returned to Britain after about 12 years: LOCAL MAN RELEASED FROM THAI HORROR PRISONS. The story also hit the national newspapers since he complained not just about the bad time he had in various Thai jails (including the one called the Bangkok Hilton) but because he thought that the British Foreign Office had not ‘done enough’ to help him.Quite what they were expected to do was not clear since he had been convicted of drug dealing and any fool knows that this is the last thing a foreigner should contemplate in any Asian country. Since he claimed to be a businessman and was no youngster it seems hard to be sympathetic even if you have any experience (second hand admittedly) of conditions in such places.

Ivan Hall celebrating his birthday with Tomas and Joyce Jeffery.

It’s the third time ELLE and ELLE Decoration magazines held a roadshow in Chiang Mai. This event was named “ELLE & ELLE Decoration Chiang Mai Roadshow 2007” and took place the 19th and 20th of May at Airport Central Plaza.