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Hi there
was looking for some ideas of places to go on holiday, that is not having rainy season
needs to be reasonable prices for flights and things, not long haul, unless cheap and no visas needed for Thai lady
was thinking of short break in somewhere like Hong Kong, then maybe a week somewhere like Phuket
want a city break somewhere different and then alonger seaside break
any ideas would be welcome
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i went to the post office to get my international licence last year
25 pounds , lasts 12 months
took passport with me, plus UK driving licence, had photo taken in post office and filled out paperwork there, took about 20 minutes
Got my Thai licence now . Had the lights test, then filled paperwork and had photo taken. Took about 2 hours and cost , i think, 150 baht ? Simple
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Thanks Patrick
was thinking i might have to fly down there, was trying to avoid it
Changing stock is ok, cos that,s what i'm trying to do cos the kids get bored of the same things, need to sell fast, change stock fast
Hope i can either get phone, Line or web site of a couple of them so i can order from here after the first visit
Thanks Minnie the Minx
will have a good look at that site, but need fast deliveries if possible, preferably not shipped from china, due to the time and the customs
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i agree its low
but we sell loads of toys and things for 5 baht, many for 10 baht, but very few toys for 15- 25 baht
village kids have little money to spend, and not much choice for buying any toys in the local shops
We cleared out all the suppliers of cards that the kids like to swap, selling around 100 plus a day at 5 baht each
Same with the ice creams, the kids are buying shed loads of 5 baht ones, but very few 10-25 baht ones, have to have a delivery at least once a week
Pile it high sell it cheap, buy it in the morning, sell it in the afternoon
i dont want to be like most of the other shops around here who try to sell everything, they have stock in their shop for years
i want to keep it small and simple, small cash sales, but lots of them
its the same with the iced drinks we sell, in town they are 25 Baht mostly, but dont sell too many
Ours are 10 baht, and we sell around 80 plus a day
small profit margins on each item, but they buy 2 or 3 items, plus fast turnover
Would love to sell more expensive drinks and toys, but they wont pay for them so shops that do sell them, have them on their shelves for months
But thanks for the quick reply anyway
Just need to find more stock from somewhere
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Hi there
Hoping someone on here can help me out
Have a small shop near a school and currently sell a small selection of basic toys to the students
But here i Nakhon Phanom and Sakhon Nakhon , have very limited places that can supply me with wholesale priced toys
and those that do, have very limited stock of fast selling items
Anyone know where i can go to buy in bulk, but mixed loads
or do i have to go to Bangkok to find someone ?
Anyone know of anyone that can ship from Bangkok or other cities , with maybe an online site to order through
Looking for cheap basic toys that village schoolchildren can buy m mostly 5 baht or 10 baht, with just a few more expensive items
Thanks for any information
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Was your return open or did it have a specific date booked for return back to UK?
If it was more than 30 days did you have any questions about visas or onward flights?
my return date was fixed, about 27 days from entry to make sure i had no problems with the immigration
then went and changed my 30 tourist to a 90 day one, then finally to a 1 year one
but had heard about refusal for no return flights.
had a problem early last year when the return flight was about 40 days, took some explaining that i was going to Vietnam for a couple of weeks , but had not arranged the flights but was told OK, but had to leave before 30 days or else
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i came out from the UK last year with a return ticket, still here
didn't use the return ticket back to the UK, so just another no show
but the price was cheaper for a return ticket than a single one way, so was better than buying single ticket and then a onward cheap ticket
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somebody shopping in the wrong places
just paid 90 baht for 30 eggs , but has got dearer, was only 80 baht 2 weeks ago
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Hi there
just wondering if any ex pats live in the Nakhon Phanom area
If so, where do you go eating and drinking
Have tried the Chelsea bar, but is always deserted , was told to try the Dog Bar ? but no idea what the correct name is or where it is exactly
I live about 45 ks out of Nakhon on the way to Sakon, but go to town regular
would love to sit and have a meal, a few beers and chat to other ex pats
Village life is good, but missing a good chin wag with a few beers thrown in
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so flashing my lights means i"m coming through !!!
NOT "im letting you out / pass ?
what does full beam mean then ?
is it OK to use the hazards to say thank you, like i would on the English motorways to trucks, etc
Having heavy tinted windows means they cant see if i put my hand up to say thank you, so would like something that they can see and understand, or maybe i just ignore them like they do to me ?
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Just a quick question
how do you say thank you to other drivers, like when they let you out, or let you pass
at home we put up our hand , or flash the indicators to say thank you, but not sure over here
Also, what is the correct way to indicate to someone else , that you are letting them out, or letting them through ?
At home we flash the headlights, but here it appears to mean i"m coming through, move over or stop
Although not seen anybody say thank you to me so far, lol
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Had red plates on my new car and got pulled a few times by the police
The first time i got pulled i got a 200 bht fine for not filling in the brown book, but nobody told me to, the dealer just said keep it in the car
After that i liked being pulled, just to see the disappointment on their faces when i showed them the completed book
But never knew about the no driving at night, but lucky the police don't seem to like working in the dark
Had to wait for nearly 5 weeks for my new plates, which was ok till i found out i could not drive over the bridge to Laos with the red plates on the car
But what i could not understand was when we had to take the car to the DLT to have it weighed before they would release any new plates for it Surely the dealer could have just told them the weight
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Well, Mega Home were not much help
said nothing wrong with the extra costs, but still would not explain why i had to pay them
they finally agreed to send some else back to put things right, although right is probably not the right word
another guy turns up, looks at the wiring and agrees, rubbish
then asks me if i have any cable, cos he has none and want to replace the cable from the inside unit and also asked if i had any trunking, <deleted>
give him cable, he cuts a short piece off then proceeds to twist the wires together and fit the twist caps
does this inside and out, tells me he is not allowed to connect my 3 core inside the machine cos he says it will invalidate the warranty so has to join the wires !!
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i think your right,
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this was Nakhon Phanom branch
no long runs of anything
the inside unit is near ceiling level, but the outside unit is directly below , maybe 3m of pipework and cable to each
but, he said 2 single cables, so more than 5 m so must pay extra
Safety breakers ???
never saw a safety breaker, only the ones on my main board,
when i asked about extra for fitting my trunking, he said more work, but would not explain how he would have fixed the pipes and cables if no trunking
could not get an answer when i asked why not using my earth from the board
one day i will actually find a tradesman to work on my house
even the window fitters had to come back and refix window, only used 3 screws and some acrylic to fix, then cold not understand when i said i wanted it securely fixed
my lady thinks i'm crazy old farang, who expects too much
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Thanks for the replies guys,
should have searched the forums first, didn't realise there was so many peopleold and deaf like me, lol
but looking at those prices, it would be much cheaper to jump on a plane back to England and get them for free
but was surprised to find my hearing aid are now working, even after a full wash in the washing maching
just hooked then on to the fan in the room for half a day and they now work
didnt think any electrionic item could stand a go in the washing machine, my I phones certainly don't
thanks again for your replies, will see about getting spare ones when I go back home later on in the year
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Hi there
anyone else had problems with Mega Home "free fitting" of their air con units
just had 2 indoor/outdoor units fitted by their so called fitters
seems their free fitting does not include wiring them up
fixing any trunking for pipes/ cables
does not include connecting our 3 core cable to the units
does not include any earthing
does not include fixing of wall brackets for outside unit
what they did charge for was
150 but each because the 2 single cables added up to more than 5m for each unit, told they can't use 2 core cable ?
200bht for fixing of trunking ( supplied by us) but no discount for not using clips to fix pipes or cable if not trunked
200 baht for earth wire and rod, even though he cut off the earth from the 3 core cable which is from the main board
100 baht for the fixing of the wall brackets, ( brackets paid for by us)
so my "FREE fitting )" came to an extra 1,450 baht
but no extra charge for not connecting my 3 core with earth into the indoor units, or for cutting off the earths, or for twisting wires together to join to the units
no charge for twisting cables together outside when the cable found to be too short
after complaining to Mega Home who could not see any problem with the charges, they finally agreed to send a different person to put the wiring right
well he took the tape off and put twist caps on !!!
he says he is not allowed to take the mains cable into the units as it would invalidate the warranty on the units, so had to join outside of the units, even though they connect d the short piece of cable to the inside connections
my Thai lady thinks I'm crazy for complaining all the time, she says it's ok, it's works and that's how they do it here, but all I want is someone to tell me the truth when asked, and to do a reasonable and safe job that they are paid to do
Am I wrong ?
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Hi there
looking for new digital hearing aids since the other half decided to wash my old ones in the washing machine
got mine from the NHS in England but was wondering if anyone here knows where I can buy replacements here in Thailand
im in Nakhon Phanom area, but can travel to Bangkok or elsewhere if needed
im not deaf without them , but find it hard to hear soft conversations without them so would like to replace as soon as possible
would rather not fly back to England for them if possible,
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will look for these while i'm there, thanks, left some of these in my workshop back home
Think i will be bringing lots of things back too,
especially one of these, hate the basic testers i have found here, find these much easier and safer to use
Yup, im old nuff to remember those, still used to find them on some of the older houses after all these years, along with the rubber sheathed cables
Even remember working on a couple of houses taking out the old gas mantles and wiring in electricity,
Thanks again
time for barbie and watch the kangaroos again, lol
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thanks for all the advice from everyone
Have connected the earths into the existing earth bar at the top for now, at least it should be better than nothing
it seems most of the house has no earths, with most thing wired in either 1.5 or 2.5 twin, but no earth to switches or sockets
the sparks was supposed to be qualified, he was working on some large offices when he was asked to do the work so assumes he was ok
but amazed when i came to checking out the board to find out what each breaker covered
it seems hes just joined anything he fancied together
looked in the roof space and its like spaghetti junction, with loads of wires twisted with caps on and then loads of tape to stop them falling off
We stopped using them about the 60 s in the uk
Going away for a few weeks to Aussie land so will try sort it out when i get back
Thanks again to everyone
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got a visa for my Thai girlfriend a few weeks ago so we could travel this week to see my relatives
Could not do it online so had to fly down from Isaan to Trendy House
Spent a long time checking out everything online, getting lots of copies of everything
If in doubt, copy it and take it with you
Printed loads of pictures of me and her on various holidays in Vietnam and Laos to show we are a couple
The centre was heaving when we got there so when the y offered to fast track us for an extra fee and guide us through everything, i gladly paid
they checked everything, decided we needed more photos, more copies of my bank staements and also more copies of my travel visas
No worries, all done quickly, the taken through to private room and fast tracked through everything else\About 1 hour in total. Some of the other people had been there for 3 or 4 hours and still waiting
Got a couple of missed calls about a week later saying they would like more paperwork and could we cone back
They told us to bring more paperwork and explained what we needed. Turned up and fast tracked through again, in and out in 15 minutes, no charge
got the visa about 1 week later
Not cheap, after paying the extra visa fees, m 1 lots of return flights, plus hotels plus the beer money, probably cost me over 16,000 baht
But hopefully it will be worth it, my visa is done online for free in about 5 minutes
Now just got to find cheap travel insurance, cos everything from the flights to insurance seems to be much dearer from here than England
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Hi there
Newbie here again
looking to connect a new 150w water pump into board, but have laid 4 mm 3 core cable so want to connect the earth into the box if possible
there are only 3 earth connections to the top part and all are full
what is the strip to the left hand side for.?
Would have thought the board would have 2 strips, one for neutrals and one for earths
also noticed the earth for the air con unit is not connected either so would like to connect that too
I also notice that as this site says, they just seem to use whichever colour they feel like using
The switch lives on some switches are blue, some are red
The board is earthed, in a fashion, in Red, to an outside earth spike, so would prefer to use the boards earth rather than add another outside spike next to the pump
have i had the wrong board fitted too, was fitted xmas time. Cos the breakers only break when you cross the wires, not when you stick your finger on a wire
( like silly bugger here did) so no safety
also have a spare 10 amp and spare 16 amp breaker, which is best for 150 w pump
Thanks to everyone on here, spend hours on the forums reading
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good idea CGW, to put outside socket. Will be better than extension leads as you say
just got to find an external switch and socket,Going to go look in Global and Mega Home see what they do, but if not, going to Australia soon, so could bring one back from there, cos they would be much better and safer
I checked my cupboard for stuff the sparky left after a recent rewire. Remembered he ordered 50 m of 4 mm 3 core but only used about 10 m so there is plenty to get from the pump to the board. I remember being annoyed at having to pay all that money and him not use it, but its all good now. Just got the pipe and draw wire put into a trench across the garden, had to be quick cos the guys came to start laying a new driveway today, so needed to get it under the concrete,. Having them lay a concrete base for the new tank and pump so should be fitting everything soon, i hope
Thanks to everyone here
Holidays without rain ?
in Thailand Travel Forum
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Sorry about that
Forgot to give any dates
Was looking at going mid to late September, during the school holidays here
Have found a couple of deals for Singapore, but that would be only for a few days, not a lover of long time in cities
But would like at least a week somewhere warm and with a beach and sea, but either no rain, or not much
Don't want to be stuck in a bar all day or dragging umbrellas about
But thanks for the replies anyway
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