Yep, HHH3 passed away of natural causes, ie, hardly any newcomers turned up, the 4 or 5 die hards did make the effort and tried hard to make a go of it.

The bar is still here as a meeting point and if there is more interest it can be resurrected.

Rob 0840934089.

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November 12, 2018, 7:58 am

Yep, HHH3 passed away of natural causes, ie, hardly any newcomers turned up, the 4 or 5 die hards did make the effort and tried hard to make a go of it.

The bar is still here as a meeting point and if there is more interest it can be resurrected.

Rob 0840934089.

Thanks for that update. Hashes come and go but to be sustainable, they do need to be supported by a younger, more enthusiastic bunch of resident exiles. Apart from the 'chav' recently caught making a twunt of himself on Sampan, there's not a lot of youngish 'retirees' coming to Udon. I have been a member (and a founder member) of several hashes and it also needs a bit of expendable cash to get a sound footing and us older buggers have even less of that these days. Maybe a weekly get together but a monthly run is an option?

Hey, I’m finally in Udorn! About 5 years too late. Anyway, I might search out the old hash bar to see if there are any stragglers around for a while.

On on!

Bootlegger

Unfortunately Jingjoes bar has been flattened to the ground and is no more.

Maybe another bar is willing to take over the mantle as home of the Udon Thani HHH?

Last time I ran HHH in Udon we went to Harry's after the event.

That must be about 15years since Harry's Bar existed?

They don't make em like Harry any more, at least not in Udon at this moment in time.

I wonder whether any person who is following this thread is aware that in February of this year, the Bangkok Hash organised an 'Outstation' run in Udon Thani.

There were people attending this run from such places as Vientiane, Khon Kaen, Roi Et, Chiangmai, Bangkok (of course) Kuala Lumpur, and New Malden. There may have been people from other places too, but those were where the people I spoke to came from.

Unfortunately, there were only two people from Udon involved, one of the two hares and me.

We based ourselves at the Brick House. On Friday we had welcome drinks and food, and on Saturday took a number of mini-buses to the run, which was in the Nong Sim area. After a Thai or Greek meal, we returned to The Brick House for a few drinks.

On Sunday we had a hangover run which started and finished at the Brick House.

The hare tells me that he received no complaints whatsoever about the weekend.

In my experience, there is no particular pub at which the hash congregates. For the Bangkok Hash, The Bangkok Monday Hash, or the Siam Sunday Hash, one would normally head out of town for a run in the country. This should ideally be from a safe parking space and within easy distance of a restaurant (Thai food of course).

Having said all of this, I do rather fear that any attempt to resuscitate the Udon Thai Hash would be in vain.

In my experience, the vast majority of foreign retirees in and around Udon are people who spent all of their working lives in the country of their birth. Let us say that they are 'conservatives', at least with a small C. My experience with most hash-persons reveals that they are far more liable to try anything at least once.

I will be delighted if, once again, I am proven wrong.