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What is a good way to go to pattaya from bangkok?
There is a bus service from Ekkamai or somewhere,isn't there?
Maybe overnight?
Or is there a better way that i can be wafted there?
And a one word answer to "where to stay?"...
Thank you!
I always take a meter taxi, its more expensive than the bus but alot quicker and more pleasant!
Hotel...Royal Twin Palace....1200 a night, everything you need.
Yep metre taxi for sure - cant remember how much exactly but its a dam sight quicker with less hanging around...
if youre on a tighter budget try the Apex Hotel, close to the beach and shopping plaza - 550 or 600 bht inc breakfast
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Cosy Allen
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Does Ramdom chances still post here ? I was looking for his blog and can't find it.
He does post, but only now and again due to a crappy net connection - he can be found, more often than not, in the issan forum.
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It is unlikely that the visa officer will contact your employer. However, I would still inform them of your change of employment.
Scouse.
Yeah mate might be a good idea.
What would you suggest in the line of maintaining contact throughout, we rarely use the phone or e mail and rely instead on msn messenger which i dont really want to show the embassy the contents of our conversation.
If i make calls it tends to be on one of those cards that does not register on any bill
I have informed the wife that we need to start e mailing more as with a lot of folks we have not known each other that long.
Again much gratitude to all that have responded to my posts
Regards
KEZMAC
email - if youre on the computer using messenger anyway, it wouldnt be too much bother to send out token emails to eachother a few times per week.
highlight on your bill the Phonecard No and take photocopies of the cards - most have individual id numbers on the back of the card...
I sent photos from when I met my mrs - the photos were those with the date printed on the photo... I used this as extra evidence of when we first met - not that this method wouldnt be open for abuse
How long will your relationship have been at date of interview?
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On another note, do i need to get our marriage certificates translated? Or does the Thai person at the interview confirm they are OK?
As far as I know its not required that the marriage certificate is translated for the Visa - although it wouldnt be a bad idea to get it done whilst youre there - I didnt bother when we got married but will have it translated when we go back next year.
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Could not agree more Scouse - things will have to change but i dont know if they have or will do in the immediate future... as I said to MrBoJ - I am only relaying my experience - on another day another embassy clerk may well have said "yeah no problem at all with photocopy or printout bank statements"
The phonecard thing is something else I'd given question to - in the end I thought Id cover every angle and sent my vodafone bills and highlighted the calls made to the "phonecard" numbers, then painstakingly photocopied my Phonecards - - about a grands worth over the year... to be honest i dont know if the embassy even bothered looking but i had sent them anyway.
OP & MrBoJ - its well worth emailing them if youre unsure about something - keep a print off of their replies too...
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I use internet banking and dont bother with statements - but i did query this with someone at the Embassy... lucky I bothered to do this as the Embassy advised that they would not accept photocopies or printouts - originals only.
Is this right? Can somebody confirm. I have internet savings and internet banking and all i have provided is print outs off the internet. In fact i sent out my latest ones last week. If this is true i'm not going to have time to do anything about it before the wifes interview. This process is doing my fcucking head in
MrBo this is the email of the guy that answered plenty of my visa enquiries.... he was very helpfull - that was last year - I guess hes still there.
Im only relaying information that I was told by people at the Embassy - Im not saying that its written in stone - but thats what this guy advised.
Pain in the ass - I had to contact my bank to request original statements for the past 6 months - I had to pay for the pleasure too - couple of quid each from memory.
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Hi Kezmac
Firstly try not to do too much thinking about what could, may or can go wrong. If you've fullfilled the requirements for the UK Visa you should have very little to worry about.
2 of my mates went through the mill when they went to get their wives visa's - one of em had theirs refused purely because he had not been thinking clearly when he was compiling the application.
Sounds as though you've got everything up together regarding your paperwork - I would definately see if you can get someone to post your bank statements to you in BKK. I use internet banking and dont bother with statements - but i did query this with someone at the Embassy... lucky I bothered to do this as the Embassy advised that they would not accept photocopies or printouts - originals only. I had statements and bills etc as recent to my arrival in Thailand as was possible.
Secondly I wouldnt expect the Embassy to go out of their way too much to contact your wife for further documentation. If you have a feeling that they may want to see something more - take it... It wont weigh you down much more and will save you the worry when youre queing up outside.
I would say that your wife not working should not bear any impact on your application. As you say, you're providing somewhere for her to stay, and you are accepting financial responsability for her - her bank balance would only be questioned if she were coming as a student or on a work visa.
hope this helps
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Thanks....
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Im unable to see my chosen pic whenever I reply or add to the forum - however when I view "my controls" it displays the .jpg that is currently used and tells me that its the correct size 600x600....
Am I missing something simple here????
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so to sum up:
as long as she has the means to make som tam...
someone to eat it with...
obviously we'd both be happier living in Thailand but.....
she must be a Northern girl!!
Yep - Nongkhai... strangely enough so are all her friends, Udon, Surin, Khon Khaen & Nongkhai...
And sometimes we even eat at the table, but usually just sit on a straw mat on the floor - - she likes to keep it real!
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My Wife has been living in UK for 10 months now. She was shellshocked by the weather obviously but got over that fairly quickly. She has made many new thai friends, either from bumping into them at the thai supermarket or just out and about - they seem to attract eachother... before you know it I'm sat round someone elses house listening to her husbands story "how he met her etc" whilst theyre munching through som tam and nattering away.
She wanted to start working and sending some money back home - 2 of her friends live locally and were working in a local factory.... she had barely been here 2 months, she loves earning the money and I think its important that she has something to get up for in the morning - she can see the money thats coming in from her doing her bit and she loves the fact that shes helping financially... she tells me that she feels good and wouldnt want to be a kept lady - just as well really!
We spend a few quid on those international calling cards as she calls home every sunday for a good hour or so and speaks to half the village....
so to sum up:
as long as she has the means to make som tam...
someone to eat it with...
some thai friends to have a chat with...
and a "phone home" card
she's as a happy as a pig in sh*t
obviously we'd both be happier living in Thailand but.....
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Dived a few times from Phi Phi - It was fantastic diving the pinnacles around there, also had a lot of excellent diving off Ko Chang... be sure to check the best times of year for diving the gulf side or andaman side before signing up to something though!
Plus - as totster says, its nice if you can help the locals out by staying in the areas affected by the tsunami...
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Do you have a work permit or is this something that you would employ a local to take care of?
Anyway I dont know where you are in Issan, but where my wifes from in NK, the local "man with a van" or Dmax rather, seems to do a good trade ferrying locals and their things about - car, motorbike, iron-buffalo parts etc..
hes also been known to ferry farrangs to and from Udon Airport - me included!
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Thanks guys and appologies for not giving such a clear picture - we're in the UK at the moment so its hard to put into words.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...cmd=si&img=1281
Is a pic showing my wifes family home which is set back about 5 metres from the main road. Both the mains water and electricity run along the main road.
In the photo to the right of the house you can just see a dirt road - this runs for about another 30 metres (not 50) away from the main road - this ends at a "T" and joins another dirt road that runs parallel to the main road. Every 3 or 4 houses (100metres plus) another dirt road joins back out to the main road. You can see a building in the background left that sits on the dirt road running parallel at the back of the house.
I cant check the water table as Im in the UK at the moment, but on my last trip i peered down into a few recently built wells and reckon about 3-5 meters is average (but this is from memory).
The land is in a good location from my wifes point of view with regard to moving back to Issan and building a home near to her family and friends, Im not overly bothered but it is close to the main road and services so would be more practical than many other locations.
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Price of land is dependent on many factors you have not given enough detail.If in Nong Khai what main road is it near? what is it suitable for?Remember it is only worth what someone is prepared to pay and watch out for farang 'loading'.
The Main Road is shown at this link - labled 2026, Saka to Bung khong long and continuing until it reaches the Mekong turning left following the river back towards Nongkhai or right to Nakhon Phanom Province.
http://isan.sawadee.com/nongkhai/map.htm
We would use this land to build a house on as others around here have done, however among the scrub land either side some locals have small rubber plantations and fish farms. The land sits at the top of a very slight incline - but enough to force the rice to be grown several hundred metres further away where it levels out and creates a natural flood plain.
Thanks, I hope thats a bit more helpfull
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Hi All - does anyone know of any TV Members living in Nongkhai? My wife has been offered some land in a good location, 50 metres or so back from the main road, electricity and water already servicing nearby houses. Its being sold by a family member whom Ive not yet met, and we are waiting for them to get back to my wifes mama with a price.
Can anyone give me an idea of price per rai or what you would consider fair from this brief description.
Cheers
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... or maybe its soi 10 - he used to have Jeab Tattoo in the Beer Garden Square outside the Ambassador Hotel, but has since moved to a soi opposite the Square.
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Soi 8 Sukhumvit Rd, cant remember the name of the shop but the guys name, intrestingly enough, is Mr Jeb. He is very handy with both electric and traditional bamboo.
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Hmmm - Ill have to look into this, as Ive said im in the UK so will have to ask the family if it was in deed liming that i saw.
I spent my apprenticeship years working near dockland arears on large construction sites - liming was commonplace there for driving out moisture before beginning ground levelling and pile-driving, i had just assumed thats what they were doing to the land near the resevoir.
Having said that it sounds as though adding calcium to the soil would look to be done in the same way - so appologies I will get back to you when im sure.
PS - what website?
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More great advice - thanks, I have always pressumed that soil analysis etc would not be free - I will make some enquiries, its hard to judge what can be done as alot of the surrounding is also unused although on my last visit there were some signs of controlled burning on some sites.
I first assumed that this land had once been a eucalyptus plantation but my wife tells me that this isnt so - it seems that the local farmers simply dont have the capital investment to put into the land - as the land is also higher than the surrounding its no good for rice... therefore they farm the lowland areas this time of year and then scarper off to bangkok for construction later in the year.
Intrestingly on my last visit to the village i noticed quite large scale liming of land - nowhere near ours but never the less...
thing is the land they were liming was very close to a large lake, was this to repel some of the moisture or to make to land less acidic?
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Thanks, thats a lot of help, I will go away and think about these options. Im not even in Thailand at the moment which is why your comments are very much appreciated.
peanuts eh.....
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Hi all, Im brand spanking new to this forum and have been reading with great interest about farming Isan land.
My wifes family are currently planting rice but have asked if we would like to do something with 30 rai that is currently unused.
They originally asked for us to finance a Eucalyptus Plantation, they favoured this as most of the villagers that grew Euc's before have now turned to Rubber Trees - thus creating a fresh demand for Euc's. After reading previous strings on this forum it seems clear that Euc's have some definate impact on the immediate land. The land is, apparently too high, to hold sufficient water for rice crops.
Can anyone give me a clue as what may be the way forward to use this land, Euc's, Rubber, other crops or even something such as livestock or fish farming.
Any ideas gladly welcome. Regards
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