nakotic

Take the green book and insurance to any Mityon shop and they'll do it for 200 bt,just done mine,couldn't be easier.

Have to wait a couple of weeks for it to come back to the shop but they give you a receipt to show the police if you're stopped.

I think Thailand being Thailand there isn't anything you can do about it. In the old days everything could be sorted with a small donation in an envelope but I don't think that works anymore. Fortunately for you the police is usually flexible and happy as long as you have a drivers license from somewhere.

I think you're right,the g/f came with me and has just told me she spoke to someone there,she asked if I got a letter from an eye specialist would that be ok,the answer was ''no,he have to pass test''

As you say,the BiB are usually ok with my UK licence when I point to the motorbike part.

out of 7 years in Thailand , i think you are the first person i have ever meet who has failed !

I'm the only person I've met who's failed it

Need a bit of advice here please and be gentle as i am a newbie !

Back in the UK I have been driving LGV's ( big trucks ) and previously PSV's (Coaches/buses).I have known for years that I am slightly colour blind (red/green deficiancy).I have had to do medicals for both of these licences and there's never been a problem passing any medical.I also have car and motorbike licences and again never a problem with my colour blindness.I can do colours but similar shades of red and green I obviously struggle with.Traffic lights aren't a problem and never have been.

I decided to get a Thai motorbike licence as I'm here for a while,I got all the paperwork and off I went to the test centre near Regents School.The lady there told me that as I had a full UK motorbike licence I'd only have to do the eye test and no exams or riding test.

Went upstairs and got called up for the colour test,I couldn't see jack shit ! They tried me twice and I failed both times.I got called into an office and was told that I'd failed,I tried explaining about the eye tests in England (totally different ) but her response was simply ''this is Thailand''.I got home and did a couple of tests on the internet and I'm still ok for a UK licence (apparantly I'd be ok for a pilots licence but only for certain types of flying).

Anyone got any ideas how to get round this ? Should I go and see an eye specialist and get a letter from them saying I'm ok to ride a motorbike ? Anyone else had this happen to them ?

Too be honest it's not that important to me that I get a licence,it's just the fact that despite me being more than qualified to ride a bike here I'm banned from getting a licence by a woman pointing a stick at a board,not exactly a medically proven way of doing things is it ?

i'm with sophon.got to say the people who work there are very pleasant but they won't accept my internet is seriously slow ! every time i go in to pay and ask them to come and give me a speed test they smile and say have problem with CAT,it ok soon !

still slow but ok for what i need.

man books on soi chaiyapreuk in jomtien has a good selection of books,100 bt each and 50 bt when you return them.

pattaya beach books at tops or on soi buakhow are the best in pattaya without a doubt.

I recently purchased 3 new books all about 350baht in Asia books, latest titles by Lee Child, Stephen Leather and Martina Cole, as they still had the labels on and were 160/180 baht in Canterbury Tales plus I get back 50% of that when I have finished with them.

if you had bought them in asiabooks dave at least they would have been genuine and not the copies you were selling at canterbury tales eh ?

Just a quick hello,I've been living in Thailand for the last 4 years.

I've been a member of other pattaya forums but got so bored with the <deleted> and bullshit on them I thought I'd come here and see if it's any more interesting and informative than the other pattaya based forums.

Hopefully it will be ?