Renewal of Australian passport

[Stevemercer]

The Australian Embassy is still processing these. I did mine today and there were no dramas (apart from having to get new passport photos). It cost 8300 Baht. They post out the new passports now and they say the process takes 3 - 4 weeks. However, they cancelled my old passport and returned it. Hopefully that won't cause any problems. Anyway, I don't intend to travel overseas and my visa extension is 6 weeks away.

 

I had to drive in from Khon Kaen the day before (and drove back today). The traffic, as expected, was light. We didn't get stopped at any checkpoints. The hotel we used in Bangkok was about half full.

 

The only point at which we were closer than 2 metres to a third person was when someone got on our lift at the hotel for one floor. I think the covid ettiquete is one person/couple per lift (e.g. wait for the next one if possible)?

 

A small silver lining was that my wife didn't want to stop every 30 minutes to eat and look at roadside stalls. Although on the way back we had to stop for chicken eggs (which are cheap in Korat), tree eggs (from the usual roadside stalls) and pig eggs (a new Thai delicasy for my wife).