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A friend of mine disappeared on a trip to Vietnam many years ago, His family contacted Interpol and finally after more than a month police found him in a delirious state walking around in a park in Hong Kong! He claimed he had been drugged, kidnapped and scammed by some gang that had taken all his money and cards, that had threatened to kill his family if he didn´t give them money, somehow he finally managed to escape from his abducters and find refuge in the park. He was very uncoherent about what happened! He was in a pretty bad both mental and physical condition when found because he hadn´t eaten in a long time just drinking pondwater in the park that got him sick! He had to be flown back to Sweden by ambulanceflight. Today 20 years later he still mentally haven´t recovered from his ordeal and suffer from insomnia and nightmares! He can only work 4 hours a day, dependent on medicial drugs to manage every day.

Yeah, I also traveled around Thailand and neighbouring countries back in the late 80s for 6-7 month at a time, and only means of contacting people back home was by mail that could take months to arrive, or collect call by an telecom operator but that was a bit expensive so I would only do that once every month or two! 😏 For relatives to contact me from abroad, their only way was to send mail to a Poste Restante box at a Post Office. In the digital era of today kids can´t even go to the toilet, without letting the world now about it! 🤣

What ever happened to allowing 3 monh visafree entry to Thailand for EU citizens!? Been talks about it for years but still nothing? 🤨

Direct all the surplus tourists to Myanmar, a beautiful neglected neighbouring country that needs every dollar they can get! 😏

Because some years when the Blue berries and Lingon berries are plenty in the woods in Sweden they can make a profite, but as climate is unpredictable they will not know if it is going to be a good year or not until they arrive, so they still come! The ones who makes good money here are the Thai middle men who exploit their own people and charge extortionate sums so that the poor Eesarn farmers can go abroad to work!

Why don´t they just implement the 90 days Visa free for EU citizens to Thailand, as they promised some time ago!

Looks like here in Sweden right now! ????

It used to be 90 days at arrival for Thailand as well, when I first came back in 1987! Would be very nice if they changed it back, as I usually stay 3 months, it would save a lot of hassle, money and time! ????

A Monorail loop along Second Rd and Sukhumvit Rd had made more sense than this joke!

I forgot to give back my room key once when I checked out of a hotel in Korat. Being a good man I later put the key in an envelope and sent it back to the hotel via mail thinking everything was ok! A year later I returned to the same hotel and the cleaningwoman immediately confronted me and accused me of not giving back the key, and said she was blamed for the loss and was fined 50 baht by the hotelmanagement, and demanded me to pay her back... which I did! ????

That is how it used to be when I came to Thailand first time back in 1987! You got 3 months stamped in your passport, with the possibility to extend!

The word "Farang" comes from the Thai words for French people "Khon Farangset", as France was some of the first western countries to do visit and do business with Thailand back in the days. Since Thai people couldn´t see the difference between different western nationalities, they started to use the word "Farang" for all westerners! If a Thai doesn´t know what country a western foreigner comes from they will use the word "Farang", but once they know you and what country you come from they will usually call you by your countryname, in my case "Khon Saweeden" Swedish. Indians and Arabs are usually refered to as "Khaek" which means guests.

They will support and elect anyone as long as they are given a free sack of rice! ????

This is the kind of Thai woman I have been looking for in over 30 years of traveling around Thailand .... and still haven´t found! ????

Putin, Lukashenko, Kim Yong-un, Xi Yin-ping, Min Aung Hlaing and Prayut Chan-o-cha, what a gang!