BoganInParasite

Not aware of any limits. But I only use it a couple of times a month so unlikely to ever encounter a limit.

Yeah, I've been using Viber for at least seven years to call back to Australia. Pay a subscription of about $5 AUD a month.

In Thailand I will stop for people on a zebra crossing. But if I see someone waiting on the edge of a crossing I will first check to see if there is traffic behind me before deciding whether to stop. I hold a genuine fear that whenever stopped in a traffic lane in Thailand for any reason there is a non-trivial chance of being run into by someone not paying attention. And we all know who would most likely get pressured to pay irrespective of fault. I've driven in a large number of countries and Thailand is the only one where I don't automatically stop. I think I've commented before how shocked my Thai wife was on her first trip to Australia when we and others stopped for pedestrians and she as a pedestrian was afforded the same courtesy.

Felt nothing in upper Nan province.

Felt nothing in upper Nan province.

Nan city. There are a couple of large local supermarkets in the central area that are very walkable but transport needed if Big C, Lotus's, Makro, Global House and Thai Watsadu are your thing.

Unpleasant this week in upper Nan province. Had a slight chuckle yesterday when the weather app said visibility in my area was 13 klms as I stared at where the mountain only 4 klms away should be. In fact the valley ridge only 2 klms away was quite faint. Very much the indoor period of the year now.

180 in northern Nan province this morning.

Talk about jumping a low bar....

Wake up, think about exercising. Decide you did enough in your 40/50s to get to current age and don't see any benefit of trying to extend too far out if it involves effort. Forget about it, repeat tomorrow and so on.

They lengthened the runway and southern overrun area a couple of years ago and just did a modest terminal expansion. I don't think the airport has ever had more than nine commercial pax flights a day, currently closer to five-seven. This is madness, a complete waste of monies.

See a lot of bamboo bungalows build for resorts up here is northern Nan province. They seem to last about the same length of time it takes for most of the resorts to close for lack of financial viability....18 months.

Fried eggs and bacon on sliced, toasted and buttered whole wheat bread that I made yesterday.

Baguettes still warm from our oven with butter, a couple with added Vegemite and the rest with smooth peanut butter.

Pretty bad in northern Nan province this morning. And not a breathe of wind to move it along.

The wife's homestay in northern Nan province has twice hosted motor bike adventurers riding overland from Europe to destinations in SE Asia. (Most recently a Bulgarian who had ridden 47,000 klms in eight months and was heading to Malaysia to finish.) He and the other couple both transited northern Iran and were full of praise for the country.

Noticing the same this year and we only have a few trees, but very heavily flowering this time round.

Serious question...are there no sand flies? Or are the sand flies also repulsed?

Not surprised. Been here seven years now and not once has the wife been approached to buy her vote. Seriously disappointing.

Started by baking some baguettes; into the oven at 4:20am after kneading and setting them for a second rise at 1:30am. Then made pancakes for breakfast with chicken (for the wife) and pork (for me) sausages and fried eggs. Late morning baked a dozen butter cookies and will add lime frosting shortly. Lunch is reheated leftovers from yesterday and never eat dinner.

I give my local guy in Pua 100 for a haircut and the same for a shave. He doesn't have a price list nor speak English but I'm assuming by his smile when he sees me and the baht that I've covered the price and there is a tip.

Generally found my local post office and delivery guy to be okay but about a year ago was told I couldn't include a small Sharp 44 year old calculator in a package to my daughter in Australia. Still stunned by the idiocy of it all but truly don't know which organisation/country policy/procedures is causing the problem. So chose to accept the rejection gracefully and take to Australia in a carry-on bag.

Only similar incident I had was a particular cashier in Makro. Suspected a short-change the first time. Deliberately got in her line a few weeks later and corrected her politely when she short-changed me 100 baht. (Believe I posted about it somewhere after this incident.) Several weeks later same attempt and my immediate polite intervention got me the 100 baht. Then reported it all at the service desk. Didn't think I'd been taken seriously but I've never seen her again.

Is this guys nick name Canute by any chance?

My recollection from reading something somewhere about four years ago was around 2.2k per linear meter. Recall it was for a remote area so local rural area price.