Tropicalevo

Ignoring the potential for scams, why would any resort town want to imply that there are sharks in the area?

His Majesty Rama IX used to go to the Royal Palace at Hua Hin.

I do not know about rips on Koh Samut but we have a couple of beaches with rips that I warn tourists about here on Samui. We do loose someone most years.

This is what is printed out from the on line version. The paper version is just a filled in form. The first part is the accommodation details and the second part - one for each person

I wonder if the police check to see how many of the young Agostini's actually have valid licences

I think that this is more about lack of swimming skills. No amount of tweaking will fix that.

So all of the senators, MP's and hangers on are going to catch buses?

Who started this one ? What nationality was bombed and it's soldiers killed or injured? Your preference is for non terrorist nations to do nothing and slowly get killed off? The Gaza Hamas war - started by Hamas. The Red Sea conflict - started by Iranian backed terrorist The bombing of Jordan - started by terrorists There are more but you will still blame Biden.

Try Google or DuckDuckGo. Russia started this 'special military operation' to remove neo-Nazis from Ukraine. Russia does not declare wars, it hides behind double speak so as to confuse people. As noted by some posters here who seem to want to blame Biden for all of the world's woes. Remember that the first casualty of war is the truth.

I do not know of Grab or Bolt being on KPN. I always rent a scooter when I go there. There are non-meter taxis. Your hotel may offer a shuttle service for guests. If you look at the link that I posted, you have a couple of choices for Thong Sala. Seatran Discovery from Bangrak (closer to Chaweng) or Lomlahk/Lomprayah from Maenam

If you are staying on Samui and going to the FMP, then book your speedboat as soon as you get here. You will have more choice. If you are staying on KPN for The FMP then it depends on where you are staying. If near Haad Rinn then there is only one ferry. The Haad Rinn Queen. Again book early. That one gets very busy. More choices if you are going to Thong Sala. I use this company for booking ferries to KPN. https://www.phanganferries.com/ There is no Bolt on Samui but there is Grab Lots of cannabis shops and cafes on Samui but I have no idea if they are 'nice'. Bangrak is a small village where the ferries/speedboats leave for KPN. At the last count, there were more than 13.

Well, this posting was about one of the best known 'tourist' areas in Bangkok. Strange though it seems, not all bars are like that. Mind you, I have not been to Soi Cowboy for about 5 - 7 years and it certainly was not like that then. As for Pattaya, I would be going back 15 - 20 years. When we lived in Bangkok, my wife was quite happy to go with me and a friend and talk to the girls in the bars there. She enjoyed chatting to them. In spite of stereotypes, they are human beings. Here on Samui, things are different. Apart from December to March, the girl's earnings are limited. I go with friends to the bars in Chaweng about every three to four months outside of high season. The girls know us and are quite happy to come and chat with us - until some young stud walks in. Then they go off. Sometimes they leave with the punter, otherwise they come back and talk to us. They all know that we never bar fine the girls. I am a widower and I am not interested in a relationship at my age but it is always nice to chat with a pretty young girl with no hassle and no strings attached. Their stories can be quite entertaining. We never go to Go Go bars. Too noisy. Yes. we would buy them the occasional drink as we would anywhere in the world and we were chatting to a young lady. Each to his own.

Bring it on I say. Stop all of this dilly dallying, wipe out half of the world' population and let's start again. The only downside is having to learn Mandarin. I am useless with tonal languages.

The law has been around for a while, before 2017, but it was largely ignored. 1970's? The law states that you must register (TM 30) your place of accommodation within 24 hours of arrival. It is the legal responsibility of the house owner, landlord, property manager, hotel to do this. However, if they refuse, and you do not have one, immigration may - refuse to talk to you arrest you or whatever. This seems to differ by IO location. The bottom line these days is that if you want to talk to immigration about anything, it is more likely to be more fruitful if you are registered on the TM 30 database.

If we have to tell you, you probably will still not understand it.

Close. It was Thursday. If the FMP is on a significant Buddhist date, the party is the day before or the day after. 2023 2024 Friday, January 6 Thursday, January 25 Wednesday, January 14 Sunday, February 5 Sunday, February 25 Thursday, February 12 Tuesday, March 7 Sunday, March 24 Friday, March 14 Friday, April 5 Tuesday, April 23 Sunday, April 13 Saturday, May 4 Thursday, May 23 Monday, May 12 Sunday, June 4 Friday, June 21 Wednesday, June 11 Sunday, July 2 Monday, July 22 Thursday, July 10 Thursday, August 3 Thursday, August 31 Monday, August 19

Sadly, I think that you are correct. Boeing have a reputation for hiding defects. They all get swept under the table or Boeing blame someone else and it is not just the 737 Max. Would you volunteer to be a crew member on the Starliner? https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-software-errors-jeopardized-starliner-spaceship-737-max-planes-2020-2?op=1

So if you were lying in the middle of the road, you expect folk to just drive around you and ignore you Unlike some posters here. I am a caring human being. In both examples that I quoted, I stopped to see if I could help With the two girls, it was an offer to take them to hospital. They were both standing and in a bit of pain. The nearest hospital was at least 40 minutes away by car and the bike was useless. In the case of the hotel worker, it was too dangerous to do nothing. He and the bike were in the middle of a narrow lane, just after a blind bend. Anyone driving there would have wiped themselves or him it. It was shift change time at the hotel. So I parked the jeep before the bend and checked on the lad. I am not a medic and I do not try to treat folk. I called my Thai business partner to come and help with translation with the stopped traffic. I called an ambulance and waited for it to come. Meantime, I moved the bike to the side of the road. And some posters here would just try to drive around the accident. Unbelievable. My post was not about being a 'hero' as suggested by one callous poster. It was about being careful to believe eye witness statements on Koh Samui.

I care.

When a foreigner is involved, Thai witnesses do not always tell the truth here on Samui 1 young girl on a motorbike had a toddler in front of her. She drove straight into a parked truck. Just not looking. I stopped my jeep and went to see if I could help. eg take the toddler to hospital. A crowd of 20 - 30 Thais soon gathered around and started blaming me until two Thais told them not to be stupid. I was nowhere near the accident. I was driving on the other side of the road going in the opposite direction. 2 worker from the hotel near where I live was diving fast down a narrow lane and hit a pot hole. Came off his bike and smacked his head. Unconscious. I was the first to arrive and again tried to help. Another worker from the same hotel called the police and said that he had seen the accident and told them that I had hit is friend and knocked him off his bike. The police examined my jeep but could not see any damage. The case was left open until the first guy recovered his senses and told the police that no one else was involved. So forgive me if I read 'witness 'statements like the above with a bit of scepticism

But how is that going to stop the continual +60 and +697 calls that I keep getting?

In the last few days I have been receiving at least three scam calls a day in quick succession. From +60 numbers. I know them to be scams as they are on a phone where no one has the number. I use an app so that I can stay in contact with my business partner if there is a problem. She is the only person with access to that phone.

I wondered how he made all that money so that he could by expensive clothes. I had assumed that he was funded by Prayut's party, but now the answer is obvious. "Pay me or I sue you".

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'.