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1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

1997 was the boom year of 100bahts to the pound

Then buy a rocket and go back into 1997. Good luck.

9 hours ago, Loiner said:

You’re welcome. Our exporters and tourist industry are lovin’ it too.

Wait a little bit. Tourists of the EU will not need  visas - after Brexit on 31/10.2019 ?  Not yet clear!!!

21 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

Go to Jomtien immigration, 90% of the people doing TM30s and paying fines are tourists extending their stay. After a 2 hour wait and a fine, they are not happy campers. 

That's the reason why article 37 suddenly is enforced, not only in Pattaya. Nowadays this article is an absolute nonsense, but a money-maker!  Squeeze the falangs.

@camble, thank you very much for all your nice photos.

The photos – below – have been shot in the Tam Lot Cave.

How to go there?

Take the N1095 from Pai in direction to Mae Hong Son. ----> 44 km over a ~1.300m mountain, then you arrive at Soppong. There you leave the N1095 in direction to the Tam (=cave), ~9-10km.

~ 5 years ago in Pai's bus station

19 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Move to a different location and change address at that Immigration office.  Assume CM.

Think 3 times about this advice, please. Compared to the Mae Hong Son imm. office, Chiang Mai Immigration is a shithole (if i can believe what you can read here on TV).

For nearly 14 years I didn't have any - may I repeat it - any problem with the MHS immigration. And I'm happy that I must not go to CM.

90 reporting, since it is possible to do, I send it by post with the required copies of documents. Get the stamped paper back within a few days.  It takes never more than 1 week after sending the letter there.

The officer sometimes isn't in the office (Myanmar border!). Therefore it's useful to call the office(r) before you leave your home, only for the visa extension. 2 times within a month he does his Immi-jobs in Pai, as far as I know.

On 7/19/2019 at 8:07 PM, bwpage3 said:

Exports down 5%, tourism down, yet the baht remains strong as ever.

 

What a farce!

These facts are contradicting.

Me too, I wondered why? One of the reasons will be the Western countries and China are troubled by trade war/deals. The big money in these countries is losing because the exchange rates are going down.. Therefore they are seeking safer havens. Thailand seems to be one of them.

This would explain the contradiction.

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The acting head of Thai Immigration Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang appears to be stepping up his policy of making sure that all house owners and hoteliers report the whereabouts of foreigners within 24 hours or face fines.

Dear Mr. Lt-Gen.,

please give order that all farangs must report about (the illegal) corruption, especially in your own Immigration area. And please let us report by a form TCxxx, drafted by your office. And last not least, please give every "reporter" a reward of 2.000 Baht - within 30 days.   

10 hours ago, hawksway said:

The Particulate Matter crisis has caused thousands of serious respiratory illnesses affecting Thais and Foreigners alike. The Thai Authorities face the same situation every season yet are too cowardly to do their duty and enforce emergency regulations. Several years ago I visited Pai and my health deteriorated due to excessive environmental burning of this Hillsides and PM 2.5.

 

Pai will never become a major tourist attraction. It's a place to get on your bike and explore the rolling green hills but like much of the North, if the pollution is not firmly dealt with will become a Ghost Town of deserted buildings contributing a dent to the Tourist Economy.

The same pollution situation as in Chiang Mai and in the Mae Hong Son Province. In our village (MHS-Prov.) the smoke starts in March. Although the military regime doesn't allow the fires before a special date, the people - and not only the hilltribes - don't worry about this order. Knowing this, we leave our village and go to the beach in Hua Hin or/and fly to Germany, avoiding the smoke. After the first rain, clearing and cleaning the air, we enjoy it going back.

Now, not far away of the N1095, clean air, not so much rain as in most parts of Thailand and even in the North. Also not so hot. And it as quite as in the heaven. Maybe, have not yet been there!

Pai has got an upswing by the already mentioned early evening movie. Then the typical situation, one or a few have been successful building guesthouses, many many hundreds did the same. Now you see most them being empty most time of the year. The movie made Pai so busy, but it nearly doesn't "work" any more for the Thai people.

Farangs come here because it was praised in the farang guide books. Yesterday we have been in Pai before high noon and saw a lot of young farangs. I guess, the reason for this are the school-/university holidays in Western countries. Cannot tell you anything about the so called night life.

19 hours ago, dbrenn said:

I would have bought them lunch. It pays off in the long run to be hospitable.

.... including some diarrheal pathogen. Maybe I would call the police for checking if real immigration officers.

But Mae Hong Son Immigration officers do a honest job !

20 hours ago, RobboR said:

I'm sure somebody will be along shortly to tenuously link it Brexit!!

Not !  Maybe to Trump. Both have the same (moral) quality as some excrement.

Wait for a report. The State of New York is now allowed to give Trump's  tax documents to the congress. You will read about Trump's connection to Deutsche Bank and vice versa.

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Boris Johnson, frontrunner to become Britain’s next prime minister, will launch a review into the so-called sin taxes on products high in salt, fat and sugar if he wins the contest for leader, he will say on Wednesday.

Before I had read this article I thought Trump would be the biggest political imbecile. Maybe I have to revue my opinion.

3 hours ago, CaptRon2 said:

Another post from Tug demonstrating your lack of concern for the truth. You have falsely accused President Trump of being a draft dodger. Perhaps you are unaware that President Trump, had a 100% legitimate medical deferment, very similar to the one your hero Joe Biden had.

 

Do you know the difference between Trump and a normal man?

1.  Trump had money, the normal man not.
2.  Trump has had 2 @rsh-licker doctors attesting that his health wasn't normal .....  eehhm ... that he was sick, concerning the military. And another one who attested, that his physical and psychical conditions would be okay for the P(L)OTUS-job.

If Trump and Johnson would shake and tremble uncontrollably for all their lies they  would have fallen dead already long time ago. ???? .

By experience here in our area  I know that the people believe- 3-times the emphasized volume of pesticides is better than the normal amount. It kills the insects, beetles etc. at least 3 times  !

But nobody knows how to extract the poison after harvesting.

Therefore, if you are lucky to have a garden, harvest your own vegetable (the threat name). Then you have the control over "chemicals". 

Or knowing somebody who doesn't use chemicals extremely and would sell the vegetables to you. This also applies to fruits. 

Why didn't you ask google ; i.e.

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/

where you get a reliable information which states belong to the Shengen States (26) . France and Switzerland belong to the Schengen States, the UK not.

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Travel Documents and Entry Requirements for non-EU Nationals

You will have to present several documents at the Schengen port of entry, in order to be permitted to enter, if you are a non-EU/Schengen country national, regardless if you are a visa-exempt or not.

The documents you need to provide when entering the Schengen Area are as follows:

• Valid Passport. Issued within the previous 10 years and valid for at least 3 months after the date you intend to leave the EU.

• Schengen Visa. If you are a national of one of the third countries in need of a visa.

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Hair and brain of the LOGB (Liar of Great Britain) Johnson have one thing in common: being tousled. Easily to explain.

The biggest and unsolved Brexit problem is the backstop under a no-deal exit. That means - concisely said – customs between the 2 Irish states. And Johnson wants to solve this problem …. after leaving the EU = after Oktober 31  ????.  Incredible, but true.  Already May hasn't been successful. A typical (Johnson) swagger. Now idea at now to solve the problem and delaying it.

That confirms what a said in my first paragraph.

2 hours ago, candide said:

According to the latest bbc news, Trump prevented the army from striking back.

The only luck in this issue is that Trump is a coward. 

Yes, I've read this in a reliable German magazine.

He approved retaliatory strikes against the Iran, but stopped them later.

A typical Trump. A reaction without using the brain, what a POTUS should be able to do. His mouth is xx-times bigger than the small/tiny part in his head. People from the Dems and even from the Reps demanded deescalation. A lame duck which fails to use solid sense, when it's necessary. MAGA – what a joke.

Because a US drone has been shot dawn to start a new war?!!! The USA are already „very experienced“ to start new wars, as proven in Vietnam and Iraq.

Thankfully there have been some reasonable people with sharp intellect to stop him.

Stupidity, incompetence, racist ideas, egoism, big mouth with a small brain, lies, fake news   ..... the liste goes on .... will win again?

USA, please surprise me !

50 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

If you think by having degrees from university that you are more intelligent then you need those laughing smileys.

 

University and the junk they churn out stifles creativity. But I guess you feel justified with whatever degree you have. It has been done to death her as a subject but seems to justify remainers who feel that they are superior because they went to university. Big deal.

 

Is that clear enough for your limited English Knowledge.

It seems that you, with your unlimited English Knowledge, cannot remember the nonsense you have written here above.

Your words „University and the junk they churn out stifles creativity.“. I don't know if this is English/British standard, but cannot believe it.

I only know that people have a lot more knowledge i.e. in natural sciences after finishing university.

1 hour ago, Laughing Gravy said:

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Once again another remainer who believes that going to university makes you smarter. It doesn't. I know. I spent many years there. In fact I would say it makes you less intelligent but that is for a different thread. 

 

 

First, do I understand it rightly? (By my own words) :

Because you spent many years in university it didn't make you more intelligent, but „less intelligent“. And you know it !

Confirmed here in TV Brexit threads; I had to  .

(But I'm not sure if I understood it rightly because of my limited English knowledge)