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In the Pang Mapha Valley/District of the Mae Hong Son Province there is and was no ugly smoke within the last weeks. And that is "normal" here for this time of the year. But in the last weeks it was very, very cold at night and in the early morning, 10°-12° (until ~9:30 am). That had not happened in this season within the 17 years we are staying here. The reliable Google-weather forecast shows no remarkable change in the coming week.

Contact your embassy and ask the officers what you or they can do to leave the country in the case of a damaged passport. I.e.; if I had lost or damaged my passport I would go to the German embassy. You must show them a legalized document of your passport and you immediately would receive a replacement for flying at home.

And .... cup makers are not punished in Thailand, but if you pick up mushrooms in special areas, that's a crime.

???? A agree with your comment, but I think you missed one important reason, why there are so many traffic accidents in Thailand. It's getting the driving licence. In my home country you must show not only that you are able to drive a car, how to turn left and right, how to overrtake , knowing the essentials of the traffic law etc. For receiving the driver license you must answer to a lot of questions concerning the traffic on the streets etc. After that you must show in reality by driving the car many minutes on the streets, that you are able to drive a car without any real problem. If you are able to do this successfully (#1+2) you receive the licence. Corruption impossible, you cannot "buy" such a document. The serious Thai (traffic) problem ????

There is an old wisdom and logic: You are not able to prove something what did NOT happen. In this case it means: you cannot prove the danger of a vaccine on the basis of all the people who survived the vaccination. Noboday is able to count the number of people who would have died IF NOT VACCINATED. You anti-vaccination people, please tell me how many of the vaccinated people would have died without the injection? It's not provable. That people with the vaccine in their body die does NOT prove that they died OF the virus. It shows only they died WITH the virus.

.... may I add, SuperRich is in Chiang Mai, too. On soi "Loi Khro", not far away of the moat. Received a very good €-cash rate.

The cheapest and best solution would be ..... RAIN ! This year there was no smoke /have been no fires in our valley of the Mae Hong Son Province. The nature solved the problem - rain already starting in the first months of this year. But praying for rain has the same result as Thai bureaucrazy or police acting against it. None at all. In reality it's condonable a little bit in our province. Many fires start in very remote areas with no streets to those fires. And Mae Hong Son is the lowest populated Province of Thailand with a lot of valleys and wonderful mountains. If the saison is dry - as in so many years ago - it's easy for the fire to spread.

In general, I need Lazada as much as a dog needs a flush lavatory = never! Therfore I don't have to deal with fake gillette razor- blades - and so on.

Don't forget (all theses promises:) .... we a near to the next election in May 2023 !

The junta is afraid of the election, therefore they think about .......

Here in our village in the North you can rely on Thai Yai (borne in Myanmar) handycrafts. We don't regret having given them the different jobs to build our house. It seems the Thai government doesn't know this.

.... and Prayut and his minions ????? Nearly every photo containing "top" Thai men older than 50 years shows men with black hairs. Guess why ???? ?

I'm not surprised. I guess our dogs would make the same alarm, if something happened to me or our family. They have a special kind of intelligence I experince nearly every day.

The same here in our Mae Hong Son Province. But it only depends on the rain. Nearly polution-free months from February until today because of the very wet saison. The people couldn't burn their fields and open fire in the forests. The years before have been awful (as usual) during the months you mentioned above. One reason we have not been "forced" to leave our home for the better air in Hua Hin.

Never forget this: for every street here in Thailand, which should be built, the contractor has to pay a "friendly fee under the table" to the office. To win some money, the contractor has to save the volume ore quality of the "ingredients", in general cement. Consequence: road holes nearly everywhere, esspecially in the sois. When you see them you know (by 100%) what has happened.

You want or like hookers. Then you get what you payed for. If you want a lady with same emotion, use HEARD and BRAIN. Very useful for longtime relationship!

Here in the North you have already problems to get XXL size for shirts. Why? Walk on the street and you will never see a "heavywight". Here is no KFC, MacDonald, and nearly no fastfood. Furthermore here are lots of hilltribes who must work hard for their own food or go/walk long ways through the mountains. They don't have a nightlife with open pubs on the mainroads, consuming a lot of beer. But walk here through our village on the main road, you will forget all ladies in the bars, nighhtclubs, beauty saloons etc, you will see slender young (boys and) girls. They don't need plastic surgery, they are slim, beautiful by nature. They easily can hide their bodies behind the fat bodies of the townspeaple or fat falangs!

Typical Thai situation: Never plan in advance. Getting "active" after accidents, or when something happened not respected by planing. Biggest safety danger: corruption!

Think about contacting a German Consulate here in Thailand or the German embassy. Talk with them about the RETURNING-PROBLEM (what would they accept to believe that she will fly back to Thailand. Young children still in school, taking care for her parents, having her own house, apartment here in Thailand, i.e.) That was useful for me some years before.

Why should I fly in a Boeing??? Airbus-tickets are a little bit more expensive, but the flight is much safer. Every time when we go to Hua Hin we take a plane. That is not much more expensive than a bus or a train ticket, but it is at least 100x safer than sitting in a bus from Chiang Mai to Bangkok and vice versa. And it's more relaxing. A flight CNX to BKK or DMG takes a little bit mor than 1 hour, driving by bus takes 9 hours ore more, depending on the traffic jam.

Inadvertently he showed the world: hair, brain, ethics, reliability - all a mess !

I had the same idea: save money - no lao, no beer and no mia noi!

Instead of buying new clothes give the cash money to the police and tell them don't take now any tea money for a while ????.

Dr. Surasak in Dentalworld was excellent for me. https://www.dentalworldchiangmai.com/dentists-eng.html#Oral-Surgeon-en

I will ask Japan to give me this loan with the same conditions