The Idle Scribbler: Bikes vs the Bolts

Songs from the Sixteenth Storey

“The art of journalism is to interest the readers in the fact that Lady Jones is dead, when they had not previously known that she was alive.” GK Chesterton.

Bikes V. the Bolts…
Sporadic outbreaks of violence, threatened and actual, have of late shocked peaceful Pattaya. Internecine warfare rages between Pattaya’s traditional motor bike pillion taxis and the relatively new kid on the block – Bolt, the ‘smart’ phone hailing app.

Although only an occasional taxi bike user, the baht bus songtheaw takes me most places I need to go, I’m all for the orange jacketed bike boys and girls! They have been a feature of Pattaya life for as long as I can remember and, on the…