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Last time M6 was still(!) opened only for a limited lenght. It's nice to have but from Nana to Korat it's just a small relief. Not sure whether I will see it open in my lifetime from Bang Pa-In to Korat. Unbelievably slow development. Must be ridden by corruption to the max.

Nana to Korat is more than one road. Guess you refer to highway 1 to Saraburi. A terrible stretch plagued with extraordinary heavy truck traffic. Going through some of the most ugly sceneries you can imagine. I avoid it when possible. Highway 2 from Saraburi to Korat? Just "normal" Thai style in my opinion. If you want to experience ruthless aggressive driving take M9. High speed luxury car racers zig zagging like mad. Changing lanes is an adventure.

Correct but the OP was about "always" available

About 7 hours from my place. And the car rests at the hotel parking for most of the time.

Guess you are aware about the chaos on (long) weekends? People reported up to one hour to get OUT of the mess. I would drive there on weekends only if there is an essential need. When in Pattaya I mostly get around on the motorbike. And the motorbike parking is a story to its own. Overcrowded even on normal weekdays in the afternoon. My personal experiences with car to Central are from Udon Thani and Khon Kaen. Udon Central parking on a weekend. Absolute No-Go for me.

Attached is is the form as an image. Print it and take it to any clinic/hospital. Usually they will have their own copy. You will have to sign it too as a self declaration being free of mental/epilepsy problems.

Since February 2022 a med certificate is required for every DL extension at every office. Every licensed (clinic) should have the required form (standardized). You don't bring any form for that. If she/he does not understand "driving license" go on to the next. No need to ask at DLT.

Half blind racer crashes into barriers. Not realizing before the impact. You can't make that up.

That's the image that WU might suffer from. But looks like they have developed. And cash to cash is likely an expensive service. Popular with African romance scammers 😁

What does the registration process at WU include? It was always a bit of problem to provide an acceptable proof of my address in Thailand. May use a letter from pension office from July.

I checked conditions on their website and if that is all incl then I would get about 500 Baht more on a 2000 EUR transfer. (pay via online banking, transfer to bank account). Time to give it a try ?

Will ETA improve the situation? Assuming they entered visa exempt. Having granted them a visa would be even a bigger joke.

And as I wrote above: think twice why you would need it.

That's quite fair.

The post describes two events. Can't remember the first one. The second one quite recently was by Prawit the "watch man", "watch collector".

It took me a while to get behind this gesture. It's all over "social media". I was puzzled because rubbing thumb and index finger means "money", "where is the money" in my culture. They are fighting so hard to find a new reason to overthrow the unwanted. What a country!

Wonder why anyone goes for the Non O-A at all. Particularly if you have a regular (pension) income (>65k Baht) that you can transfer month by month. I think it's for those without regular income and not wanting to transfer and freeze 800k Baht? But adding the health insurance obligation! I am happy to have unloaded that status by a border run in 2022. Otherwise I searched misc sources and all unchanged in Thai Baht numbers, 65'000/800'000. For Germany I could not find the numbers in Euro (just pointing to some MFA powerpoint).

Just seen the word "cheap" in the opening post

Result of that simple automated test: (and during the test I was using the internet as usaul, TV streaming, youtube etc.)

Can't help with these times. I usually don't experience specific outages (3bb). I searched a bit and saw that testmy.net has an automatic cyclic test. Test on desktop PC: https://testmy.net/auto Have it running in the afternoon let's say from 2 PM to 6 PM every 10 min or so. Just an idea. Never tried on my own. Just started a short cycle of 5 tests. Tests goes to Tokyo without asking (424 in first test). Bet you can setup for your preferred route. Be aware that much of the content does not come from where you might think but through content providers somewhere. If you use Google most stuff might come from Hong Kong or somewhere else in the region.

Just out of curiosity. "Sombat Tours" indeed offers a Phuket <> Khon Kaen bus. Scheduled travel time 20 hours and 50 minutes.

No need to argue with characters like you. And off the list. Bye.

Not sure... About 21h trip on the bus. What a joyride. She didn't make it far. Happened in Phak Chong district in neighboring Korat province (N.R.)

Use such silly "gas" comparison in Germany and they would all jump on you.

"Eyewitnesses reported that they saw the foreigner driving at high speed from South Pattaya Road" ... to Chaiyapruek? Did they follow him all the way from there?