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They charge me 80 Baht and I normally just give them 100 and tell them to keep the change.

The Londoner is pretty good. They have a buffet style roast dinner on Sundays. Roast beef, Chicken, Ham, etc and yorkshire puddings along with a selection of nice tasting gravy's. For me the most important part of a meal is the gravy / sauce, that makes or breaks it.

I've been going there most weeks for months now, in fact I went there today. It costs about 470 Baht if I remember correctly.

I had some beans on toast for breakfast this afternoon and the truth of the matter is I have tins of both Brooks and Heinz beans in the cupboard.

The Heinz tin required the use of a can opener but the cheaper brooks version has the fancy 'ring pull' easy opening top so feeling kind of lazy I went with the Brooks. There's not much difference in taste between the two brands.

There's a Japanese bakery in Sukhumvit Soi 23 if you walk down the Soi from Sukhumvit a couple of hundred feet past the post office it's on the right side of the road. It's a separate building on the side of the street outside some Japanese restaurant.

Why don't you read the facts before posting?

I have a simple explaination for that...the link didn't take me to the article and I couldn't see a link to the article on the main page so I just commented on the original post.

Edit : I don't believe for one minute the bar owner just handed over the money without some major problems.

I'm not sure about Soi 10 but there's one in Soi 23, I had a haircut there a couple of days ago. It's behind the 'watch fixing' guy near the chip shop.

It's about time. Asok is nuts in the early evening these days.

Well, it’s been shown in at least one study that people who rely on artificially sweetened beverages are more likely to gain weight, and aspartame in particular has been shown to increase appetite and calorie consumption.

I have to disagree here. I often drink lots of these 'diet' drinks with alcohol and I never eat anything after drinking, at least not until the next day when I wake up, even then I often don't eat for an hour or two.

Since I switched to the diet drinks I've also lost weight. Previous to switching to 'diet coke' I drank at least a full days worth of calories in regular coca cola every week.

Maybe she wanted the details from his passport to sell them so it could be cloned and then returned it to make sure he doesn't cancel it with his Embassy.

Unlikely but possible.

Foodland seems to be the only place in Bangkok where you can buy the Boursin cream cheese with garlic. It's not cheap but it's very tasty. I last saw it in the Soi 16 branch at least three months ago, with a bit of luck they'll stock it at the new one.

I got a new one after they started sending them from the UK, but I still had to apply to Hong Kong. This is the same situation as now.

It took about three and a half weeks, so I got it back 2-3 days before the full four week estimated time.

You don't need to send your passport off with the application but if you run out of pages then you will be stuck in Thailand until the new passport returns and there will be an overstay fine.

Thanks for the advice, I'll pick one up over the next few days

I'd like to purchase an ultraviolet note checker so I can test for fakes.

Does anyone have any idea where I can get an ultraviolet light from to check these notes ? A small handheld battery powered one will be just fine as I won't be using it very much.

If it makes any difference It's US currency I'm checking.

It took three and a half weeks to renew mine in September. You send the renewal forms to Hong Kong and they mail the passport back to you directly from the UK, all using DHL.

It's worth noting that you don't need to send your old passport with the application, only a colour photocopy of the id page. They say the old passport is 'electronically cancelled', I guess this will happen at some point during the four weeks that it takes to print the new one.

If I were you I'd fly down to Cambodia for a quick 'visa run', just stay overnight and return the following day then send off the application. Otherwise just pay the 2 weeks overstay which will be 7000 Baht - probably about the same as a trip to Cambodia but without having to actually bother going there - worth the money in my opinion.

I couldn't afford to make payments and the credit card company obtained a court order (judgement) against me, even though I was living here.

This is possible because you most likely didn't respond to it and the person taking the action would win by default due to you being a no show at the court / not responding to the summons.

All you would need to do to get it reversed is inform them that you weren't living in the country and you weren't aware of the action. CCJ's disappear forever after 6 years anyway.

Due to the fact that credit records are deleted entirely after 6 years if you do live abroad for a long time and you return again at some point it can be hard if not impossible to get any form of credit should you need it due to there being no records about your history. You need to literally start again, no matter how good or bad your previous record may have been.

Like some others have said - there is a six year limit then it's not enforceable.

One thing to note - the debt will most likely have been sold at a vastly reduced rate to a debt collection company by then. They might contact you and ask you to even pay a very small amount like say 5 pounds. If you do this then the six year cycle starts again and it's fully enforceable at that time through the UK courts if you live there.

There are other courses of action that can be taken which might not have this residence limitation like a high court writ for example. I owed a company some money about 15 years ago and they issued a high court writ against me for recovery. I wasn't even aware of the debt so I just paid it when it came through. Like I said this was a long time ago though.

They will most likely just issue a CCJ against you, however this can be easily removed if you tell them that you didn't receive it which is unlikely as you now live in a different country. The onus being on the lender to prove you received the CCJ notification.

They have water in my local 7/11 but some other products are still out of stock. It's not the usual brands so they appear to be using alternative suppliers at the moment. The family mart I occasionally use still has an empty water fridge but does have some of the 6 packs of 1.5L Singha water on sale.

For example I like to buy the the little cans of Nestle Latte coffee from 7/11, they haven't had them in stock for months now.

The larger stores have a lot more stock of pretty much everything. When I say the larger places I'm talking about places like Villa, Foodland or Gourmet Market although I haven't been able to buy any of the Boursin garlic cream cheese for a while now.

That's maybe the reason why OP asks.

Good point, I read it wrong.

Aren't you meant to take the melatonin after you arrive at your destination rather than when before or during your flight ?

How did you book this flight ?

I tried to get a price on a flight to the UK over Songkran in April for about 12 nights and nothing is coming up as available on the Eva Air website. It's been this way for a while now, no flights are showing up between Bangkok and London at all around Songkran.

Looks good to me

John Doe

22/14 Sukhumvit Soi 22

Condo Visa 1 Condo Apt 2214

Bangkok

10110

Thailand

I'd just use the word condo once - it probably wouldn't make much difference anyway.

I'd use the line 'Visa 1 Condo Apt 2214'

One question though - the 22 in 22/14 is the building number on the street. Do you really live in building number 22 on Soi 22 on the 22nd floor ? That's a lot of 22's ?

If you were to live in apartment number 26 in building number 15 on Soi 1 called 'Sunshine Condo' it would be like this :

John Doe

15/26 Sukhumvit Road Soi 1

Sunshine Condo Apt 26

Bangkok

10110

Thailand

I've found sometimes that the official apartment number and the internal number for the apartment can be different. For example the apartment number '26' might be known internally within the building as room '13B' (floor 13 apartment in that case you use '13B' on the 'Sunshine Condo Apt 13B' line of the address but still use the official number on the first line of the address.

I've had many things mailed to me over the past couple of years via the regular post office mail, EMS, DHL and Fedex and it never fails for me when using this format.

They are quite good though, once I had something addressed to just the apartment name / room number and it said 'Soi XX, Bangkok, 10110'. There was no mention of the road name so it didn't mention Sukhumvit road at all but it still arrived.

Duty Free cigarettes often use tobacco from the USA (for USA brands) whereas the locally sold cigarettes of the same brands use all Thai tobacco or a mixture of Thai/USA grown tobacco. The "Made In USA" marking is appealing to many smokers because the quality of the tobacco is usually considered better than the Thai tobacco used in cigarettes sold in Thailand.

The Marlboro that you buy in the local stores appear to be manufactured in the Philippines under license to Phillip Morris. I can't say I've ever inspected any of the duty free variants.