NanLaew

98% Thai food, with a 50/50 split on that either being homemade or delivery.

Correct............ Why do you feel the need to read the OP's posts? And comment? Oh, look! It's page 2 already!!!

I caught scabies twice. First thing I had to do was take every piece of clothing and ALL bed linen to the laundry for a proper hot wash and dry session. I was told to do this all at once and not in stages where leaving bundles of contaminated clothing and bedding can cross-contaminate clean stuff. Also sun-drying is recommended. While that was happening, I took ALL the clothes I was wearing and placed in a sealed bag for separate laundering but burning the lot is a quicker and safer option. I then had to shower and apply an all-over medicated body lotion, ensuring it was in every nook and cranny (finger and toe webs, ball bag and butt crack) and remain naked while the medication did its job. I recall it was a minimum of 6-hours so it was good to be home and not expecting any visitors. After the prescribed amount of time, I hot showered thoroughly to remove all vestiges of the lotion. I put on some of the freshly laundered clothes and things were OK. If you adhere STRICTLY to these methods and avoid ANY cross-contamination, it should be a one-off solution. Yes, I caught them twice in Brazil. Finally stopped the problem when I changed hookers.

Your liver's carked it. Stop buggering about here and go see a specialist.

Did any of your trouble-free purchases involve a mobile phone? I bought a keyboard and didn't. NB. Shavers and keyboards are not mobile phones.

Well if they do, that's proper bent.

Ah yes, those were the daze, eh?

Instead of the trigger terminology 'no trans', the OP should have said, 'straight only'. But maybe it was the crypto-fascists that complained after all?

Hmmm, hat'rs gotta hate.

And how is it if you want to be dishonest here?

Just listen to yourself. About 23 years ago, I flew to the US on a one-way ticket, without a visa, with about a hundred (borrowed) bucks in my pocket and owing various people several hundred more, a five-baht gold chain and about 40 kg of excess baggage. The rest, as they say, is history.

OK, so we must assume the OP is also flying AirAsia back to DMK.

Udon's traffic, like most large towns and cities here, can be a nightmare during the Mon-Fri school hours and from late morning through late afternoon on weekends. When you've lived there a while, you know where these schools are during the week and you know where Central is on the weekend. Thus, the traffic gridlock is easily avoided. If you don't have school-age kids, Mon-Fri is easy; just relax at home. If one is blessed with a passion for mall trawling at weekends (or a partner that insists you mall trawl with her), then yes, you are out of luck. I do most all my shopping during the week and outwith the manic traffic hours. Start around 9 am and you're done by brunch time. Easy. Udon Thani does have some nice parks with lakes that come with well-maintained walking and jogging tracks with bike lanes. I have a choice of four, all varying in length and which one I chose depends on how hungry I am for brunch (or guilty about riding the 'short' lake on consecutive days). Once again, if unencumbered with kids, one can get to these venues before the traffic picks up around 7 am and avoid that stress. By the time you're finished, so's the traffic. As for shopping it's well served, especially in the imported stuff. Ten or twelve years ago, I could count on making two or three trips to Bangkok and Pattaya that would include stocking up on cheesy comestibles unavailable in Udon. I haven't had to do that since well before Covid. It's all here or, if it's not, they can get it in and if you're in a hurry, there's online plus lazada. Most all the foreign-owned imported food businesses scattered between Loei and Korat and those that are making pies, bread and other stuff are happy to accept online payment and send your desired foodtsuffs overnight by bus. I don't miss the old 'farang alley' as I never went there but do recall the rather tawdry spectacle of foreigners in shorts and wife beaters perched on barstools, nursing bottles of beer and watching the passing locals watching them. Gripping stuff! It must have been great for those that had cut their Thailand teeth in Patpong and Pattaya before migrating with their chosen bed warmers to Isaan. Maybe more than great, probably even vitally important for them as they found themselves doggy-paddling in the deep end of Thailand's cultural pool that is Issan. Anyway, what's called Soi Sampan is where those that haven't been weaned yet tend to hang out nowadays, a stone's throw (as the crow flies) from where the alley once was. Nowadays, there's maybe half-a-dozen bars and restaurants located away from the alley that have a loyal, local foreigner customer base and a few do excellent food too. The current epicenter of foreign bar culture is thankfully only about 300 meters long and gradually getting whittled away at as land prices make hotels a better investment than two dozen, mostly empty beer bars staffed by some of the fittest ladyboys in the area. Fit as in "fit as a butcher's dog" is fit. That's the 'cow shed' for you. It has a proper name and so does the street it's on, but it's irrelevant anyway. The city and surrounds is blessed with some nice quiet housing developments that range from the oder crowded and unregulated ones (same as Pattaya and Jomtien) to newer, modern ones of a better quality. There's a trend away from the single-floor villa developments to the two-story 'family' style which may be a hint as to which market they are focusing on or, it could be indicative of soaring land prices so squeeze twice as many homes into the same sized plot. The airport is well served from both Bangkok airports plus once-daily flights to Phuket and Chiang Mai (maybe a couple of these daily depending on the season). |There was a daily U-Tapao service that sadly died on the vine. It hasn't regained its international status briefly earned about 8 years ago but fingers crossed. Up to 6 trains daily (including the overnighters) from Bangkok and I think 4 of them go onward to do the Nong Khai shuttle. Nobody's mentioned Udon's ubiquitous tuk-tuk or 'skylab' that still ply the routes around town and the nearby suburbs. In the days before GRAB, they were a cheap (slow, rough and noisy) alternative to drinking and driving. Still are. Once you get a regular driver who knows your schedule and social proclivities, it's like having a bargain-priced, private chaffeur-driven service (if you wear noise-cancelling headphones and keep your head down).

Did it buggery. You made it up. I reckon the investigators had this sussed well before you had your morning hand shandy.

Wow, really? Maybe he needs a good thumping, stabbed in the neck, robbed and dumped on some wasteland too? Sheesh...

No mention of airlines, which may be a big factor as KUL has two terminals, one for the regular carriers and the other is AirAsia's LCC terminal. They are separate. Both airports handle fly-through and transits differently, but based on my passport flip flights from before Covid, you would definitely need to clear through Malaysian immigration at the main terminal in order to check in for your 'return' flight.

That's the shop the OP bought his at. You get fawned over by a long-legged lovely for the 20,000 baht and get a pair of rubbish specs. It's called a trade-off.

iPhone and newer model Samsung's are eSIM compliant. I recently added a US Mintmobile eSIM to my new, dual-SIM, eSIM compliant Nokia which also has my regular UK EE SIM in a slot, so that's the two numbers it carries. With an eSIM enabled, the second SIM slot is unavailable. My two Thai numbers are on the older Nokia phone that doesn't support eSIM.

mooooo.....

oh, give me a frickin' break for chrisakes

Good luck with your endeavors on satisfying the pedants at immigration. Up here in Isaan, an acquaintance was renewing his twelfth consecutive Ret Ext using the proof of monthly income. He was given the extreme runaround because one of the twelve transfers posted to his Thai account two days into the following month. No matter that this was subsequently proven to be due to a long-weekend Thai bank holiday, it was still grounds for an adamant refusal. The more that the unpreventable situation was explained, and reason and common sense sought, the more adamant the refusal became.

Maybe the OP is near the Bang Rak Amphur's office? Valentine's Day marriages are a very, very big thing in Thailand, and not just for the love lorn foreigner and his 'you'll do me' spouse of the week. I recall there's a wiki entry for this amphur holding a record for the amount of V-Day marriages It's infrequently mentioned in tour guides these days, and maybe totally absent in real estate sales pitches.

Sounds like the sort of sloping-shoulders, pass-the-buck disclaimer a Thai bank would issue when a customer's funds magically vanish. You been here in Thailand long then Frits?

Wot? No roosters? You're 'avin a larf. Odd the things that some folks take as important from other folk's experiences. The red stuff plastered all about is for Chinese New Year.

Fifteen law-breaking illegals get arrested while their law-breaking employer only warrants being "investigated"? Law and order is alive and well in Thailand. Slavery too.