The Fugitive

For incidental expenses too if you haven't taken out travel insurance.

Think I'll stick with NakhonchaiAir.

Definitely entitled to whine about the lack of decent cheap wine!

Turtle Wax is traditional; https://www.lazada.co.th/products/turtle-wax-super-hard-shell-paste-wax-95-oz-281-t22-300-i243089947-s372894402.html?exlaz=d_1:mm_150050845_51350205_2010350205::12:17724336665!!!!!c!!372894402!139345252&gclid=Cj0KCQiAvqGcBhCJARIsAFQ5ke5wd4xg6G-odEalXs5rc2FcU7g81v_C-JReuHQvOi6CpIlNuxMEJWYaAp-FEALw_wcB

Certainly is! Great Atlantic coastline and very attractive and interesting towns in the region too.

Wow! Never realised that. Thanks for the tip.

Good idea. They may be 'over designed' but I've never had a shock off or burnt out a UK plug top!

Please can you have a word with my Mrs and niece? I always try to set the A/C to 'Dry'. Unfortunately, they both change it to 'Cool' and ask me why I persist in doing this? According to them you can't ever cool down unless you set it to 'Cool'.

March/April can sometimes be just too much in Thailand. So hot that you want to be somewhere else.

Yes, agree! I like Spain but prefer Portugal. Benidorm and Costa del Sol are preferable with the Canary Islands even more so. Lisbon doesn't usually get below 15C in Winter. However, one Christmas I stayed in Nazare. For two days we were strongly advised NOT to go outside. After the gales and torrential rain had subsided, I noticed most road signs were blown over almost flat and awnings had been torn off shops, rubbish of all sorts everywhere.

Maybe it became less important during the 1980's when our plugs had their live and neutral pins half-sleeved?

Becoming a State Pensioner was a milestone for me. Now nearer to 70 than 60, next step being 80. Bring it on!

More for irritation than pain but I always splash alcohol/rubbing alcohol/surgical spirit all over the area.

Thanks for that. Worth knowing!

Not Bangkok. Thai wife had neither licence. Asked at LTO and paid 2,000 baht for each licence. No tests required.

Thanks for the reassurance, definitely appears to be kosher! Just trying to work out their starting point. It seems it could be; a) Abroad address, b) Abroad telephone number, c) Abroad transactions. All of these are permitted of course according to their Customer Services. What I forget to do is extend my notification periods of being abroad. Suspect others might be doing the same?

I had a work colleague/friend who frequently grew cysts on his face at the age of 16. They were cut out as they grew and usually a single stitch sufficed. Aged 32 he was diagnosed with skin cancer. Treatment proved successful for 17 years. He then had another bought but was OK for a further 10 years. Kidney cancer then developed which was successfully treated but unfortunately returned 12 months later. Aged 60 he was given between 6 months and two years to live. He managed 6 months only. As you mentioned, I suspect much damage was caused/worsened during the early days of package holidays, the guy very much enjoyed his days around the pool and on the beach in Spain and Morocco.

Very helpful suggestion thanks. I too have had Savings plus Current Account, Credit Card and latterly Investment Hub with Santander and predecessors for 40+ years. Fortunately, I have never been subject to the investigations you mention. Once, a lady Call Centre agent shouted at me for "putting a lot of money through these accounts". I was buying and furnishing a house abroad at the time. I suppose now the cash has been spent they have no interest in my affairs. Fortunately, I maintain my U.K. address and was able to open two new accounts with 'Neo Banks' whilst in the U.K. earlier this year. However, they warn you that you are not permitted to operate the account if you move abroad.

I phoned Santander. To notify about an abroad address they require you to download, fill out and post a change of circumstances form. You could also inform them by going into a branch next time you return to U.K. Halifax are more modern, you can change everything on-line.

Thanks for the information. This is the reverse of my experience (albeit now several months ago). Santander Customer Services told me that I was permitted to have an abroad address and they would send renewed/replacement cards to Thailand. Halifax Bank permit abroad addresses but will not send cards to Thailand.

I honestly thought that 'three score years and ten' was of biblical reference. Perhaps it was/is but apparently to this day it remains the yardstick by which premature death is measured. Also, life expectancy can be affected by many things. My Thai brother-in-law died in June of kidney disease aged 56. My Mrs (his sister) didn't have a lot of sympathy. Apparently for many years he had been taking Chinese herbal remedies and these had eventually poisoned him. To be honest I wouldn't expect many of us would do this. 90+ is feasible with normal lifestyle IMHO.

Thanks for that.

Just by chance. Think it was some on-line local newspaper. But never saw the outcome. Probably there wasn't one. Wasn't referring to the Comeback Pub (OP in Trang).

17 year old bar girl, underage for being in licensed premises, working in licensed premises and offering personal services. The manager for employing her. The Japanese businessman who knows, maybe he was doing something naughty at the time of the raid?

My Mrs was told by her friend that a new karaoke bar had opened. The three of us went to try it out. Extremely difficult to find in an uninhabited part of our small town located inside an industrial unit. There were two bar girls and a bar manager. Karaoke, drinks and food were OK but my Mrs said "we're not going there again". One week later the place was raided, a seventeen year old bar girl, the manager and a Japanese businessman were arrested.