Tropicalevo

We did that for a friend of mine. His widow, a monk et al were all in the boat but then we had to pay extra to the guy that we hired the boat from. He thought that we were on a fishing trip. His argument was that he now had to have the boat blessed by the monks to remove any bad karma.

You seem hell bent on supporting Russia. The support for Ukraine is not an American, EU or UK thing. It is Nato and the next countries that might be invaded by Russia are in Nato. There are already threats from Russia that 'they are next'.

But none of the reports mention that he was carrying a red chair when he took the taxi. Of course, he may have taken the chair there on an earlier visit.

But this is Thailand. My wife died suddenly in her sleep. No existing medical conditions. She was a 'young' 55. The police called round to investigate 'the crime scene'. Foul play was ruled out. The hospital said that there would need to be an autopsy - at least a week's delay. That autopsy did not happen. It was one of a number of scams by the hospital to get more money (government hospital). You rent the space in the morgue. As I said, it was one of a number of scams and I am not sure if you do have to pay for the morgue. If there was an autopsy, her body would not be in the morgue and I would receive a copy of the report.

But you will be on their database when they enter your name. I do online reporting. I never carry a TM 30 report.

Technically you are correct. It probably depends on the local IO. Friends here on Samui did not have a TM30 report. They were 'arrested' and escorted to immigration. Not the house master.

Seriously? The people of Ukraine and Crimea might disagree with you comment, but then again, when they disagree with Russia, they tend to disappear.

I am not sure if that is correct. When my wife died, it was just after we had sold a property and I had put the money in her bank account so that she could tell her family that she was now a 'millionaire'. I then spent the next two to three weeks transferring the money to my account (500,000 baht per day max.) I mentioned this to my lawyer (she did not leave a will - we were waiting until the property sold). The lawyer said that was normal in Thailand - do not worry.

Sorry for your loss. My wife died a few years back and the process was relatively straight forward. You will need copies of the death certificate and I think there was a letter from the embassy to allow the hospital to release her body. Then it was a trip to the local temple to arrange the cremation/funeral. After the cremation you will receive a certificate from the temple confirming that Mrs xxxxx was cremated. Take what ashes you want for the family, home and put them in a couple of jars. (Plastic, sealed coffee containers.) I was advised by some baggage handlers to put a label on the jars stating 'Human remains - non toxic'. Then I put the jars in my suitcase and flew with her in the hold. I flew with Turkish Airlines via Istanbul and Antalya as friends wanted some of her ashes and wanted to see me. Then onto Birmingham to see her family. *Warning* you will be flying with white powder that apparently looks like drugs. I was searched/scanned/questioned at every stop of my journey (4 or 5 times) so carry the relevant documents in your hand luggage. Addendum When my father in law died when we were living in Australia, his wife wanted the cremation to be done there and the funeral parlour posted his ashes back to the UK.

I think that survey is very limited. SE Asia seems to have been ignored. Just western places in the list. Hong Kong and Singapore They have to up there in the top. They are very safe cities. I have lived in both

It is probably for leaving Thailand. If you do not have a TM 30 you have broken the immigration law.

Not sure if it is connected, but the TM 30 online reporting system was also down today. Good old Thai apps. And the banks/government insist on you using them.

You are obviously too young. My UK licence 'died' a few years ago. I never bothered to renew it. Thai DL and Thai IDP work everywhere that I want to go to.

That is a difficult question to answer in the world wide context. However, here in Thailand, they would never spend their life in gaol. So yes, go to gaol.

Oh dear. What could possible go wrong? Whatever happens, I hope that the little lad survives OK

The human race is constantly evolving. Children these days tend to be larger than previous generations. eg a 16 year old kid who chucks darts. If the child is old enough to rape, steal, murder etc etc, then the child is old enough to go to gaol.

Rubbish. Do you believe the same thing when the west helped to stop Hitler in the second world war? UK. USA and others helped to repel the murdering invaders.

Not really. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine and bombed innocent civilians. It is the aggressor and Russia could stop at any time if it wanted to. Ukraine is trying to defend itself and repel the murderers. It has no choice. What is strange about that. Yes, now Ukraine is after Russia in its own territory. It is called war. Do you believe that the West should not try to help the oppressed smaller countries?

Love all of your comments. Keep up the sniping - it is entertaining (and I am not a prostitute).

Thank you for that. I have come to the same conclusion. I will need to rethink as it was only a 'nice to know' thing. Not worth a major hassle or expense. The main benefit was for all to see what was going on. Oh well - back to the drawing board.

From the main article How does this make her a prostitute?

It's not a disrespect thing. Just normal for a lot of SE Asia. Thais are not taught 'queueing'. It's a relatively new thing. You can go with the flow or educate them one at a time. Up to you.

Well done to the rape/assault victims for pressing charges. Very brave indeed.

Who the heck carries paid utility bills around with them.

I have never had a problem renting from Birmingham Airport and using a Thai 5 year licence. The rental desk have a book of all different driving licences. They looked up Thailand. Compared mine to the one in the book and just asked me which number was the driving licence number.