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Ban Krut, maybe Chumphon. Ao Manao has been nice. I'll leave Scunthorpe till next April fools

Going to be a lucrative money stream for the boys in brown if it goes through. Plus no wear mask. The daily double bust. Get out that ATM card, or scan options. Ka Ching 😀

And here it comes. After farang be bad xeno month, they double down. This has nothing to do with health reasons. Glad I haven't bought the house yet. Back to the plan B & C options.

Snow covered rocky crags, across the water, as the Brindisi Corfu ferry traced the isles east coast prior to arrival. Really beautiful. Early April, and cold in Greece that spring. May till mid October. That leaves six and a half months of b-tt cheek numbing weather. REI, LL BEAN, PATAGONIA have good cold weather gear and online ordering (F--- Amazon) BTW Merino wool long underwear is great, make it your friend. Cheers

Understand the Thai governments position completely. With 38 Thais killed by Hamas, some with extreme brutality the killers praised allah, as they hacked the Thais apart with farm implements. This might not go over well with the poorer 80 per cent of the Thai population. Keeping a lid on this has been difficult. Yet they are on it. This fact needs to be erased from popular conscious. Tourists from Muslim countries must come first. So to, marching orders from Celestial leader Xi must be followed. A difficult path but one Thailand is following to the best of thier ability. Mo matter what western cynics say ... Money must come first.

Old computer term for cut, actually copying text, then paste it in a new document. I do that with good info then save the doc in a folder. In this case my Thai travel folder. I did print out a hard copy before we left Not that it helped, somewhere after Suphanburi, Miss T wanted to visit a couple temples. There we were out in Ban Nock Thailand on bad rural roads dodging trucks carrying rice havesters. Just another road trip! GARF.

When the Gubermunt gives its tacit approval, you can expect the Thais to pile on. BTW on the trip down, thai guy pulled over on side a HWY urinating about 400 meters from PTS station & bathrooms -- Classless but as a Thai, nothing to get hissy about.

Raises eyebrows?! Thailand has aided the Myanmar military government's since 1988/9 when current ongoing unrest broke out. Thirty five years of money numba one. No one raises eyebrows about this disgusting fact anymore, if they ever did.

TIT With proper maintenance the project might have worked. However that is the last thing you can expect here. They couldn't even keep the free gifted tsunami detection buoy in operation, after 04 because no one would change the batteries.

Extremely sad show by our resident CSI-ASI unit.🙄 BTW a couple months back a pickup truck did the same. The road that had been worked on, then paved over, caved in. You wonder when someone is going to get seriously injured, or killed during this lengthy digging project. TIT

Nice C&P and printed a hard copy, heading south this week. We break the trip. Seem to end up in Singburi, Chaisaeng Palace. Nothing to shout about but it works. They do have a nice breakfast and on the road early. This old guy comes out at dusk.

British Columbia Photos, facebook group. Member just posted a short video clip he took yesterday of the "Mighty Fraser River" at St George. Unfricking real. Last year was bad, you wonder if the province will burn down this year. However, nothing to worry about ... it is all natural ... like the Black Plague, or the boxing day tsunami TBL. Pop another tinnie, click FOX up on the flat screen. It's all good.

YES you will get a better rate & less fees, if you bring cash back and exchange at Superich or SK, than you would by Wise or bank transfers. Next trip I will be bring back 10K (or is it 15?), just in case there is anything to this 'tax thing-y'.

Pretty sure the Thai government knows exactly who is responsible and that is why they confuse the issue with as much gibberish as they can. The media helps, like this confusing gibberish filled article above. Sure their are evil Finnish berry farmers & Swedish blah blah blah. But the first skinning is the money these poor people must give the Thai recruiter, to get a job. A job that may or may not exist. Many of the poor, likely get in hock with loan sharks and worse. That is where it starts and that is what needs to be stopped and that is why Thailand seems unable to do anything about it. These Thais who take advantage of their fellow Thais seem to have an immunity, never prosecuted, rarely mentioned.

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Transferred a chunk yesterday and got these questions with three or four answers that you clicked - that Wise supplied. Where is this money coming from? What is your estimated anount you send over in a year? - | What is it for? Could be a question or two I forgot. They stated they were required by law to do this. First time I have ever seen this.

Look in the mirror ... That said there are a lot of old sprogs who defend Thailand by reflex action, because they do not know what else to do. Sad actually. I live here but I know it is not a paradise, far from it.

Lots of Thai are non judgmental. Lots of Thai are judgemental. They live in the moment and if the moments news is … things change. I watch people become unfriendly; morning market 2 or 3 times a week, Same for evenings, I can see it. This sounds far too pollyannish. I know of people who never had an issue here but lost wealth, health & in cases, their life. I accept the fact that it is risky living here, riskier than other countries. However if the government ratchets it up, yes I am seriously concerned.

I like how you first response is, defend Thailand Defend your sandbox. Looks like you are well bonded to the Thai cultural norms ... if you can't deny it or blame someone for it, you can always come in with the what aboutery defense. Carry on old sprog.

What Jongwat is Ohio in? Is that near Kalasin?

Interesting they decided to trumpet this fact anyway ... Chinese tourists numbers have been a disappointment, both years post Wuhan flu. None more so this last Lunar New Year. Yes many came but nowhere near the numbers they had hoped for. Perhaps the good people of Thailand can rest easier even if the Celestial Tourist spigot is only at partial flow, they are still preferable to those unholy westerners. As the people now know after this, farang be evil, month. All is well in the Kingdom.

Like all places, it might be going up a bit. However more likely they are just reporting more, as in, it was always there you are just getting more of a glimpse of it.

They do not look Maori, definitely not "originally from NZ".