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Port out Starboard home.

It's a perpetual myth, just Google it, an urban legend  / load of <deleted> easily discredited as bs.

You don't say where you're departing from.

Peanut butter was in the news a week ago. Thought your 100g would be a small enough quantity.  

TSA confirms it considers peanut butter a liquid

CNN) – The Transportation Security Administration has confirmed it considers peanut butter a liquid which means you aren’t allowed to bring large containers of it onto planes.

Good news. He's back!

Reported as located and OK, from Matichon News

From Thairath

The search continues

This is simply Thai Post trying to actively compete with the courier businesses, Kerry etc.

Daughter #1 runs the in-Thailand online marketing for a fruit export company - over 90% of their product goes overseas, mostly China and Singapore, but they were very successful last season selling top-grade durians individually packed and couriered within this country, and underway now for the current season with an additional employee dedicated to selecting/packing durians.

We've sent boxes of fruit to relatives, and have received same - several 5kg boxes of oranges arrived late 2022, all were sent via Thai Post so it's not entirely a new idea.

Haven't had a problem, been with local Kasikorn 12yrs, there's two staff who seem to be responsible for assisting overseas clients and I'm always sent in their direction; we've done general banking, overseas transfers, investments and insurance through them without issue, when i had a traffic accident resulting in hospital and dental they were great in sorting out my reimbursements through the accident insurance scheme.

It's not all bad.

And not all staff are 'halfwits'.

Does no one use Google? 

66 acres, over 1300 stores.

We used to call in when we lived in Sa Kaeo and had to visit Immigration at Aranyaprathet. Get a little electric golfcart to roam around. Don't recall ever buying anything apart from food, if there are as claimed over 1300 stores than there's about 30 of each variety, fake handbags etc. 

Time filler to browse if you're not in a hurry.

Not planned that way, but we live in what would qualify as a 15-minute town

Approx 9000 people, 15km away in Chanthaburi city but if one chose, could get by comfortably here with minimal need to go to the city.

We have all this, could cycle anywhere in town in ten minutes.

And no bar or licensed cafe - perfect for some.

Hi, read your travel/cycling blogs, really interesting adventures in areas of Thailand I'm not familiar with.

Thank for sharing your cycling experiences. Happy travels!

Talking big engines; I saw this one at a New Zealand car museum last year

1913 Mercedes 24,000cc

17 minutes ago, bang saen guy said:

Muslims holiday in Malaysia. Thailand will never get that business

You mean apart from the 400,000 from the Middle East who visited last year?

Locally (Chanthaburi) we see African Muslims, a new mosque is under construction in the city, there's a long-established community here.

56 minutes ago, fvw53 said:

Is this a repetition of the drama which happened a long time ago when thieves of scrap metal also took radioactive rods from a hospital and I believe one of them died?

I didn't know about that one, 2000, there's a Wikipedia page Samut Prakan Radiation Incident

Quote:

A radiation accident occurred in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand in January–February 2000. The accident happened when an insecurely stored unlicensed cobalt-60 radiation source was recovered by scrap metal collectors who, together with a scrapyard worker, subsequently dismantled the container, unknowingly exposing themselves and others nearby to ionizing radiation.

Three patients (the two scrapyard workers and the owner's husband) ultimately died of uncontrolled infection and sepsis, all within two months of exposure.

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

A military camp as a tourist attraction.. How low can you go

Really depends what's inside; there's one in Chanthaburi, Taksin Military Camp, that is based around the walls of an old fortress, seven restored colonial buildings/houses from the French occupation 1893-1905 that are now converted to museums. 

Hazy sunset Chao Lao beach, Chanthaburi

15 March 2023

Eastern Thailand: Chachoengsao, Chanthaburi, Chon Buri, Prachin Buri, Rayong, Sa Kaeo, Trat

A very poor and misleading OP; the vehicle was 'off-road' and fortunately veered into a bank rather than a significant drop-off down the mountainside, heading to Wat Khao Prabat (Khao Khitchakut National Park, Chanthaburi) a temple which is open 8 weeks per year; transport is by 4WD pickup on a steep clay track.

Visitors are limited to 24,500 per day over this timeframe, buses leave from Bangkok Bus Terminal (Chatuchak) at 8.00pm aiming to arrive around midnight followed by a 4WD trip to the midway point, shrine/worship there then on the second stage, followed by a 1.5km walk for the ideal sunrise views however vehicles and people arrive 24hrs a day.

There are approx 100 4WDs in operation.

Pic from Matichon News

We've been but chose a daytime trip, and quite an adventure it was.

This from a travel blog:

While the traffic runs from the left side in Thailand, the rules are completely different on the road up to Khao Phra Bat mountain.
Along the 5 km long road up to the top, the traffic shifts to both left or right before the sharp bends so that the vehicles driving up can easily turn the bends.
The left/right shift happens along the longer and straight stretches, signposted well.
Both driving up and down happens at relatively high speed, so, it is very “exciting” and at the same time a bit scary to see how cars suddenly change left/right while meeting cars driving in the opposite direction.

I'll start a new thread:

I pay for something and the cashier hands the change back to my daughter?

This began when she was about five years old and whenever we were at the local shops she'd put her hand out for my change, keep the coins in her little purse and I'd get the notes. This of course compounded as at next shop I didn't have coins and she got the change again . . .

Then a series of moneyboxes lined up in her bedroom for each denomination coin. We opened an education account with Omsin Bank and each time her money reached 1000 she'd go with me to the bank to deposit.

While she no longer goes shopping with us, still gets our coins at the end of the day. Topped up with birthday gifts from family - eg 777 baht for her 7th, now at 17 she has 82,000 baht saved towards uni expenses.

4 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

#1 - Yes, one example being some years ago in Roy-Et province, where several farangs were picked up and extradited ...

Not very specific at all, some and several. 

And Thailand cannot 'extradite' a farang in this manner - that's for bringing one back not sending one away. If at all correct, deport would be the right term.

9 hours ago, dj230 said:

turns out the autopsy has confirmed it was a murder, wonder if the case gets solved

Appreciate a source for that autopsy outcome, I haven't found any such confirmation online in English or Thai news.

A link would be useful thanks.

13 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Proper low loaders are a rare sight in Thailand.

Only real professional companies (like Mamooth) seem to have them.

It always frightens me to see such heavy machinery on a normal high truck bed.

If it's not brake failure it is simply thrown off in a bend (combined with the narrow bed).

My partner's company has two of these; but even then, one ended up off-road in a ditch last year, unladen, too fast in rain descending a long hill.

An article on the HMS Minstrel / HMS Phosamton

The Loneliest Minesweeper?

Shipsearcher staff share views of the last of the Algerine class minesweepers that served in vital roles in the Second World War: HMS Minstrel / HTMS Phosamton.

Shipsearcher Identification Section (SIS) staff search extensively for satellite views of some of the last survivors of famous classes of warships. During the Second World War, the British Algerine fleet or ocean-going minesweeper design formed an important class of Allied warship. At 225 feet long and about 1,300 tons displacement, they were larger than other designs, such as the Bangor or Bathurst sweepers.

This new class could be constructed by commercial shipyards – an important feature for speeding up wartime production of the vital hulls. More than half of the 110 ships were built in Canadian shipyards: Port Arthur Shipbuilding, Toronto Shipbuilding, and Redfern Construction. These ships were all powered by reciprocating engines, while some of the British-built ships were turbine-driven. In addition to regular minesweeping duties, ships were quickly pressed into service as ocean escorts, helping to bulk up protection for the vital transatlantic convoys. The dozen Royal Canadian Navy units spent most of their wartime duty in this role, providing important service alongside River class frigates and Flower class corvettes.

1943 photograph of HMCS Sault Ste. Marie,  a Canadian-built Algerine, built by the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. and similar to the original configuration of HMS Minstrel. Credit: Canada. Department of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada CT-247

HMS Minstrel J-445, was one of the last ships launched from the Toronto, Ontario shipyards of Redfern Construction Company in 1945, as the war ended. Minstrel was transferred to the Royal Thai Navy In 1947 as HTMS Phosamton (or “Phosampton” depending on the source). With most of her sister-ships scrapped in the 1960s, her service stretched on and on into the early 2000s. According to 1980s editions of Jane’s Fighting Ships, she was given an engineering upgrade and modified with a large classroom deckhouse over the quarterdeck, serving as a training vessel.

Most online sources still call the Phosamton the last active Algerine, serving out of Samut Prakan naval base. However, the Navypedia entry notes it was stricken (removed from service) in 2017, with other sources suggesting it was retired in 2012. A Thai news source had a more accurate updated location that we were able to look up, and images online confirm the location. This minesweeper has been located nearby at Samet Ngam since at least 2013, and shipsearcher staff very much hope that it will be saved from scrapping. However, it has been languishing in a deteriorated condition. More recent views show a large barge moored alongside. As the ship is reported to be resting on the bottom at her berth, the barge may be alongside to commence dismantling the venerable sweeper in situ. Thailand has gone to lengths to preserve other contemporary warships, after their long second careers with the Royal Thai Navy, so there is still hope for this last Algerine.

Check out the Royal Thai Navy pages for other views of the Phosamton