sandyf

Quite. i was one of the first to get a pink card and re-registered at the hospital with it shortly after. When the pandemic was on the hospital put me on Mor Phrom well before the vaccine rollout began. I was vaccinated about 9am the morning the rollout started, Thai ID certainly made a difference.

The emphasis being on "can be". The goods have to be seen as used, my friends wife paid quite a bit on stuff that appeared "as good as new".

Quite possibly, not open all the time.

Yes, they start selling tickets 1 hour before and immigration follows. I think just 3 times a day, the 2 shuttles and there was one Bangkok train during the day, not sure if that is still running. The shuttles started up again in July. It didn't open for the Bangkok trains in the evening, you had to go down to the road and then back up to the station.

Emirates.

Not strange at all. Heathrow has both PSC and APD amounting to about 4500 baht for economy passengers. Did little to reduce tourist numbers.

Not from me. Had hoped to go to Songkla but will never set foot on Samui again.

Not all of them. A total of 4,262 patients were admitted to critical care with confirmed COVID-19 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between January 2022 and June 2022. Of these, around two-thirds (67%) were discharged, almost one in four (24%) died in critical care and 9% are still in critical care. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/hospitals In the UK over 10% of the population are waiting to be treated in hospital, what is the figure for Thailand?

Quite, you truncated the post and went off at a tangent.

You will need a copy, firstly to check in at the airport or they may assume you are going visa exempt. Guy checking me in at LHR only looked at my passport and then started quizzing me about how long I was staying. I pointed out the piece of paper in my passport and he had to call someone, never heard of an E-visa.

It is certainly not false as I personally know someone who has done it, and I also believe someone else I know is currently in the process. You would need to check the current customs regulations for returning Thai nationals. When I shipped my goods I used Asian Tigers and found the service very good. PS. You need to think carefully about the insurance. My goods were mainly well used and not a great deal of value but the insurance was based on replacement value and the premium more than the shipping cost, I declined to take out any insurance and bore the risk.

What did you find difficult about this statement in my post? "Where the material is made to a standard, degradation may well be down to some other cause."

What are you trying to say? That the Thais use the same amount of plasticizer as other countries.

It was about that time when i first went through PB, when the trains went all the way to Butterworth. We just got off the train, through immigration and back on again a few minutes later. How times have changed.

Yes, itis all very straightforward, you get off the train, through Thai immigration then straight through Malaysian immigration and up the steps to the station. It is all on the platform and there have been reports from people coming into the station from the Malaysian side that there is no immigration or it is shut down. It is not particularly obvious and there are no signs. It is only open when a Thai train is due to leave during the day. It is not open for the Bangkok train in the evening, you have to use the road border for that.

By definition rust can only occur where there is an Iron(ferritic) content. Type 430 stainless steel, wherever it is produced has always been regarded as a poor quality stainless steel and cannot be used in certain environments such as medical and food.

There is a type 430 stainless steel that has a ferritic content and that will rust, easily identified with a magnet. Any of the austenitic stainless steel types will not rust whatever the climate.

A lot of the plastic material in Thailand is produced with little or no plasticizer. This makes the material cheaper but a limited life span. Built in obsolescence may well be a commercial decision. Where the material is made to a standard, degradation may well be down to some other cause. We have some old 25ltr paint pots that are been used as buckets and have been in use for longer than the 14 years I have been here. Washing up bowls and the like tend to go brittle and hardly last 2 years.

Exactly. Flooding in a built up area is nothing more than excess surface water. If that water can find a way to capacity below the surface it will take it. Historically access to capacity below the surface has been by horizontal grids on the surface which are prone to partial blockage reducing the effectiveness of what capacity has been available. In the new drainage systems I have seen the grids have been vertical built into the kerb with more of them, making blockage a lot less likely and much faster drainage.

There is a "Withdraw" button in the wallet but I think it can only be used for a "refund" balance.

Going back on the same train is a bit hit and miss. If the Hat Yai shuttle is delayed at all then the turn round time can be quite short. About 4 years ago I came back from Langkawi and it was like that, we were all sat waiting for the Hat Yai train to arrive and I doubt it was 15 minutes before it was on it's way again. It is certainly worth a try if you go on the morning shuttle, worst case scenario is you have to wait for the afternoon shuttle. I did it just as the pandemic started. Good job I didn't plan on the same train back, no chance with the covid checks that were in place on arrival. There was also a group of uniforms that got off the train and we had to wait on the platform while they had a photo shoot before we could proceed to immigration. I just had a wander over to the market area and came back on the afternoon train.

I used to use the wallet regularly and then they stopped it. been removing all refunds to my bank account for some time now, that has never been a problem. I only ever use the computer, anything that involves money I would want to do on a full size keyboard and a screen you can read quite easily.

Been here non stop since sunday night. I first came to Thailand many years ago in late Sept. The days were bright and sunny with frequent rain. The rain however was heavy but brief and an hour later you would never have known. Nothing like the dense cloud and persistent rain seen in recent weeks.

It doesn't do a lot for replenishing the supermarkets. Back in 2011 the distribution chain broke down due to flooding and most supermarket shelves were empty of bottled and canned goods. Getting hold of beer was a problem, what was available was being reserved for bars to try and keep them in business. Here in Chonburi we didn't fare too bad as there is a fair amount of local produce but some areas suffered quite a bit. "Important factors" are more important to some than others.

Good deflection, although bit meaningless. As said, fairly obvious you have little interest in any form of prevention that benefits your fellow man.