jak2002003

Both people were in the wrong here, the 'entitled grumpy farang and the infantile Thai driver. But the driver went way too far with his actions. However, have little sympathy for the farang.

Have a huge tree of it in my street out in the sticks. The Thai Yai builders in sed to send their kids to climb the tree and stuff plastic supermarket bags full of the leaves. Told me they used to make tea from it. It's an old tree.. thick twisted trunk...think about 100 years old. Not tried the stuff myself.

Of course not. If I go outside now and cycle around our village I would see plenty of groups of Thai people hanging around chatting, eating and even, in the evenings at the local ma and pa shops, drinking alcohol . I have to go to the market later and it's always packed with people and none are doing any social distancing. There are even 2 small bars open and stall holders having drinking beer on their food stalls with their mates from other stalls.....all while they serve customers. My neighbour right now is a village official and he has a BBQ going all day with About 12 of his other mates joining in and random people arriving and leaving. If I took a photo of any of these people and sent it to a newspaper do you think it would be published ....... Or probably I would be the one in the wrong and be charged with defamation...and every Thai neighbour would hate me.....and rightly so...lol.

Ups. Made a typo there. Was going to correct it just now...but I think I will leave it the way it is...as it's more interesting. Hope he does not take my advise though or he might get in trouble.

Various posters already correctly identified it as a out viper. You can tell my the large triangular shaped head it has. You were lucky you did not step on him. Very beautiful looking snake though ..such a vivid green.

OP....if you joined them and started rubbing yourself you could have taken off your mask.....

Poor thing looks half dead.

Good grief! What is all this extra time wasting and money wasting happening for? . Why can't they simply follow what the rest of the world is doing? . They akready have a factory producing a high quality, world recognise vaccine right here in thailand. How about using what they produce?

I think the constant spraying with detol or other chemical is likely going to be more detrimental to your health then going to the hospital and using sensible precautions like wearing a mask and using alcohol on your hands.

Well the OP needs to educate himself to the real life danger of catching covid at the hospital is if he wears a mask, social distances and washes his hands. If people are that scared and irrational then that is also 'not clever'.

Wrap yourself in several layers of cling film and squirt alcohol over your entire body every 5 minutes. A gas mask and space suit should also help. And a long cattle prod to shock anyone that get closer than 2 meters to you.

Yeh, I wondered why he is leaving so much of his money to his Ex! If one of my ex's was asking me how to get my money from my bank account when I died I would not be best pleased to say the least.

Before we could just buy and own a property there, work, use the health care system, travel in and out. But now I is not that easy Both Spain and Portugal have visa restrictions now that mean you can live there full time and if you want to apply to get nationality then you have to move all you pensions and pay all your taxes there and not in the UK. To qualify to live there all year you also have to buy a property that needs renovation and is expensive. You also have to have a 'passive income' which is quite a lot, and since I am not retired I can't use pensions for this. So it's not as easy as before Brexit.

Seemed a rather long story no a short one. Nice story though.

If I were you I would use that money to enjoy your retirement. Spend it on yourself and what's left leave it to who you want by making a separate will here in Thailand What's the point of saving money up and not using it? You have no children / dependents or partner to leave it to so use it to have an enjoyable life in your retirement. Why is the Ex so worried about getting his hands on your money? Don't know your relationship with him but seems a bit off to me. If you want him to have some of you money why not just give some to him now? You are only 60 right? Likely you will have a new partner you night want to leave the money too.

Thank you for that information. I will do some more research on it. But how can you drive from Phuket when there are road blocks and a curfew? And I what about going from a red zone to a dark red zone?

We are right on the edge of selling up and moving away after living here full time for 15 years. So sad how it's changed so much. It's not the place we fell in love with. The virus just added to the frustration. And the government's mindset / vaccine rollout / restrictions etc are not exactly helping change our mind to stay here. We have to travel to other countries as part of our business, and with the current rules if we leave Thailand we can't return to our house and home here. Also, we have some legal stuff going on with a property in Phuket that needs urgent attention right now....and with the restrictions we are not allowed to travel there. It is so frustrating! We don't want to go back to the UK, and our plan to retire and own a house in Europe is gone - thanks to Brexit. Feeling trapped, depressed and not sure what our new plan should be. If we could travel again that would lessen the problems a lot and we would probably stay and ride the storm out But, with this slow vaccine rollout and complicated sandbox situation there seems no end in sight, at which point our business could fail and we might loose our property in Phuket.

I know that was the idea. But I have friends that live in Phuket, are fully vaccinated, they are Thai. They came to visit friends in CM and now they are not allowed back to their home in Phuket. We also looked at going back to the UK to get our own vaccinations then flying back to Phuket for the sandbox before leaving to go back our house in CM after it ended. But was told we can not do that. Also here in CM we are told no tourists are allowed here from Phuket because CM is a red zone. I am sorry, you could be correct. I am just confused by all the changing regulations and news. If I did go back to the uk and get vaccinated then return to the Phuket sandbox, are you saying we could then leave phuket to come home to CM? Or is it is because we would not have a tourist visa? Sorry to be so dumb.

I don't think that is the case. You can not travel to Chiang Mai or other areas. I think you have only got the choice of a few other islands.

Thai health care for Thai people is free at the government hospitals. If someone is asking you for money so they can get the rabies shots after getting bitten...they are lying to you. I got them myself as a farang at a government hospital. Only just over 1000 Baht for several injections and antibiotics.

He can not come and travel around Thailand as a tourist now, with or without a vaccine. Best case is he is in the sandbox Phuket thing. But then he can't leave the island for the mainland.

Domestic tourists are not allowed to travel to and from Phuket.

You know not everybody lives in Pattaya don't you? I am in Chiang Mai. Good to know that some people got appointments though. I got the impression some other posters seem to be confusing 'you application was successful' with 'you will definitely get a vaccination on such and such a date.'. Hope to hear from anyone that has actually been given an appointment date here in CM.

So has anyone been accepted and given a date for their vaccination with expatvac?

My partner and I are both expats and retirement visas. We also just got this e mail. So seems they will not be giving the vaccine to anyone? Most people would have the retirement visa or work visa. If they are working they are likely to be under retirment age and so will be told they are too young to get it. Hope they have not kept all the vaccines for themselves.