You wouldn't have thunk it.
I was sitting at the end of soi 51 supping my first cold tin of Singha of the week as the sun went down after a hard day slaving over a hot keyboard ... the dark slowly descended on 'double H' this evening and a different picture panned out...
Low slung Mini Coopers rumble past, compact groups of Hi-So glitterati girls with iPhones and short skirts meander across the street, Lexuses (not sure that's a real plural) longer than a bus slink by, BMW's do the u-turn dance, overweight cops roll out of equally heavy SUV's, samba dancers from the local restaurant drop by for some ice, teenagers driving souped up Hondas and Toyotas drive purposely slow to attract the attention of the afore-mentioned glitterati, triple parked Benz drivers oblivious to general road users and population holler at their friends ... two feet away, the local military turns up - on push-bikes with no gears, a Porsche GT3 is spotted ... maybe its just a 911 with a body kit ...
Yes, it is official - we do live on a different planet here in Hua Hin.

[Edited by author for additional sensationalism]