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I have been told that, to renew the license, it is necessary to go to the transport office only on Friday, and not any day of the week.

It seems to me very strange, has anybody updated information ?

My experience this morning at the immigration, around ten o'clock :

For the residence owner :

- Form downloaded from the Volunteers site (http://piv-phuket.com/latest-information/address-registration-information/)  filled up with the owner's signature (in my case it is a company, so company's stamp and signature, no other documents requested) with attached resident's list.

- Copy of rental contract

- Copy of chanote

For the residents :

- copy of passport first page

- visa copy

- departure card copy

Five minutes of waiting, two minutes in front of a kind (!!!!) and smiling (!!!!!) girl employee, that's all.

I have a two years driving license that will expire on June 2018.

I will not be here at that time, so I would like to renew it before, but I do not know how long before the expiring date I could go to get a new one.

I know that after the expiring date I will have one year to renew the old one, but I would not like to drive here, even for a few days, without a valid license.

Does anybody have this information ?

On 6/2/2018 at 10:54 PM, merijn said:

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Yes it is accepted at Phuket immigration, As long it is signed correctly and the tax stamp is attached.

Many thanks for the info.

How much is the tax stamp and where is it possible to buy it ?

They come monthly also to my home for fogging (Chiang Mai Pest Control - [email protected])

Still I have some mosquitos in my garden, but I do not know how many I would have without fogging......

Do not know the price because it is included in an annual subscription with montly treatments and controls for mosquitos, termites, rats, etc.

Any direct experience with the company mentioned above, or other companies in Rawai area ?

Not in Patong but on the Vijit Road, souh of Chalong circle, there is a place called "Tandoori nights" that is worth to be visited.

The cook is from Nepal, but the tastes are very good and generally really indian.

Vegetable pakora, butter chicken,  chicken tandoori, fish tikka, channa masala, Madras prawn are very good, while the bathura is excellent.

A warning : do not say : "spicy no problem" because they tend to put much more chilly than in India to satisfy their Thai customers.

The place is small, with only five tables outide and the others inside, with an interior room not so attracting, but the service is very kind and nice, and the prices are correct.

My overall opinion  :

Parlai seafood, at the end of Soi Parlai at the root of the pier. Extensive menu, catering mainly to thai people, good quality.

Kaneang 2 : beautiful position, good menu, mainly thai people but also frarang.

Yacht Club : beautiful position, short menu half thai half western, catering only to foreign people (type of the kitchen accordingly)

Kaneang Pier : I completely agree with the opinion that it is a tourist trap.

Mor Mu Dong, almost at the end of Soi Parlai turn to the left and follow the road until it finishes (Board  with name only in Thai). Not oceanfront and very very simle, but very good quality.

Unfortunately it does not exist any more Tang Kae Restaurant, very big and wit many chinese coaches, but they were confined to the extreme left of the rstaurant, while the right side was very quiet. It had a long menu and some outstanding plates.

If everybody would separate the recyclable in transparent (or different colours) bags, maybe there would be less trash on the ground in front of our houses and the poor people would not need to scavenge inside the dirty trash.

I know : this is a dream, I am an idealist, the people do not mind, we are in Thailand, etc.  ........

2 minutes ago, schlog said:

Not to difficult MM.

Open the lock BEFORE the collectors come and lock again AFTER the collectors gone.

 

Besides the fact that the truck arrival is unpredictabe, there are people that are earning their living searching in the garbage and recycling.

Probably they do not have many alternatives in the life 

2 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

Find out what days the garbage truck comes and only put your bins out on those days.

good idea, but unfortunately inn my area the truck arrival is completely unpredictable .......

6 minutes ago, schlog said:

........Life is too short to worry ........

This is the reason I am trying to live better, without trash in front of my house  

The people that are earning their living searching into the garbage bins for some recyclable items, many times break the plastic bags and often leave some trash on the ground.

To improve the situation I separate the recyclable (glass and plastic bottles, tins, old clothes, etc.) and put them, as well as the not-recyclable, in transparent bags, to avoid the need to open them to know what is inside.

The situation is a bit better, but not so much, and unfortunately we do not have enough space to keep separate bins.

Does anybody have some other idea or suggestion ? 

Tried Roma yesterday:  not bad but not unforgettable.

Good pizza (a bit small, not enough alone for a dinner), average parmigiana eggplants (very small plate, good taste but too much salted).

100 baht for each plate (also if ++) is an astonishing price.

For the pizza everyone has his taste, but in this area for me (italian) the best Pizza Restaurant remains M&M, with good pizza, good pasta, pleasant ambience, warm welcoming ad efficient service; while the best Pizza (but nothing  else) is that one made at Amici's in Chalong.

This morning at Central I have been given a flyer of https://weserve.co.th/en/  , maybe now they are really working.

Did anybody try them ?

Does anybody know where to find a new brush head for my vacuum cleaner Siemens ?

I am looking for a brush with only hair but not wheels, to clean an outdoor  wooden deck.

Already tried at BigC basement but couldn't find anything.

Thanks......

At Central (Departement Store) I did not find Nespresso capsules.

I found some compatible capsules at Central Food Supermarket (or maybe Villa Merket, I do not remember) : a bit less expensive but nothing to do with the original.

But you can find the original at Chicco d'Oro on the Courtyard close to Island Furniture, on Chaofa West.

"One cup of coffee is a pleasure, if it is not good, which kind of pleasure is it  ?"

59 minutes ago, stevenl said:

I'm not talking about TAT, I'm talking on the ground in Rawai, where this thread is about.

Yes, for sure in this area the number of the shop has increased a lot more than the number of the non-chinese tourists.

All the commercial activities that I know repeat the same mantra : "Only chinese tourist groups not willing to spend money".

13 hours ago, NamKangMan said:

 

Did you check the circuit breaker?

Yes, thanks, probably it is the motor of the internal fan that, in spite of receiving a correct electric voltage, does not turn

9 hours ago, hkt83100 said:

Imagine this would have happened in April/May... In the last 3..4 months my A/C was running about 1 hour in total, just to check if it is still alive.

No, it should be overly lazy: it was working just about one hour per day until Saturday and suddenly, Sunday morning, it went on strike. 

Does anybody knows some right address to repair (not only cleaning) an a/c in Chalong - Rawai ?

My Saijo Denki today decided to enter in strike and stopped to work 

2 hours ago, Get Real said:

But??? What if the test is the real fake thing??? Or is there really a fake thing that can be real? Confused here......

Today if something is mentioned on internet it becomes "true". 

And so happend to this test.

I usually spend half of my year in Phuket, and rent a small motobike (Honda Click) but, of course, it would be more convenient for me to buy a new bike instead of renting it.

The only problem is that I do not know where to leave it when I am abroad.

Does somebody know a place, possibly in south of Phuket, where it would be possible to leave the bike for some months (without the risk that someby else uses it, of course...) ?

Any idea about the cost ?

24 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

thanks for that list

wonder if BigC or Tops have any of the OK ones, probably not

 

I would not trust too much an article that suggests to make the fridge test to verify the oil genuinity,  that makes confusion between oils with organoleptic defcts and "fake oils",  and reports 14 brands as the 70% of 124 brands   

3 hours ago, xylophone said:

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Now perhaps you can answer something for me because I have seen some small bottles of extra-virgin olive oil in Tops (Waitrose) here in Phuket and they are extra-virgin olive oils made from individual olive varieties and labelled as such and also from individual producers, including from Crete and Sicily (I believe). Sure they are a little more expensive than the run-of-the-mill stuff, however do you know anything about them?

I do not know these kind of bottles but I would be careful about the small, fancy, “organic” productions.

Unless I know very well the producer, I prefer to go with the big names (Bertolli, Carapelli, Berio, etc....) , I am sure that their production is regularly kept under control by the government organization, and suppose that their export is made correctly, with true samples and true analysis.
 

Moreover the oil does not last well if kept in small quantity, i.e. small bottle.

Better a one liter bottle kept in the dark and, possibly, in a place not too hot.

When I go out of Phuket for a long time, I prefer to keep the bottle inside the refrigerator instead of leaving it in a cupboard at more 30 degrees for a few months, just to trhow it away when I return.

But beyond the genuinity the most important thing for an oil is its own flavor and the fact that if you may like or not like its flavor.     Many people seem to forget this aspect.

The oil is like the wine, once you reasonably trust its genuinity and you think that there is nothing harmful inside, buy what fits better your taste :-)