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Freedom flotilla will not be allowed to dock in Gaza.
Correct format for news items is a headline, under that some text from the article then a link to the article, just putting up a link with no text makes google think it is spam and consequently the forum is downgraded as being a spam bot, so yes please report any you see that have just a link only. -
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Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
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Accident British Tourist, 59, Dies in Tragic Fall in Phuket
Builders are not good with mathematics making staircases here. I regularly trip on stairs that are inches different on one step when the builders didn't calculate correctly or eyeballed the construction. When you are not looking down you assume each stair step will be the same. This might have been a contributing factor. -
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Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
Most of the foreigners who cause problems are not residents, but tourists. -
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Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
Well written article. Had Vietnam had a retirement visa option, I wouldn't be here. -
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Recent trip to UK with Qatar air- A very sad, heartbreaking visit.
I've also recently returned from a trip to the UK with Qatar air and we had a great time. We went in April and school holidays, wife and granddaughter, granddaughter's first trip to the UK. Flew Qatar airways Bangkok - Doha - Birmingham, my house in the UK isn't far from Birmingham in the Black Country near Stourbridge. Flights were fine though the food on Qatar airways is appalling. We were there for three weeks and spent time around the Midlands, with day trips to Birmingham, Stratford and Warwick, longer trips to South Wales and London. The weather was surprisingly good, a little cool but sunny, and for the most part dry. Yes the UK is expensive, the cost of accommodation in London, Marylebone for 3 nights would have paid for 10 night in Bangkok, but whilst not cheap I noticed the price of groceries had fallen slightly since my visit last year. The train to London was ridiculously cheap £47 return for 2 adults and a child with Chiltern Railways, but that was off peak and booked online in advance. Car hire was very reasonable too, I paid £277 for an 18 day rental with Europcar. The only time I noticed a lot of down and outs, beggars and druggies was in Birmingham when we strayed into High Street looking for M&S which we discovered had moved to the Bull Ring. But around the new Bull Ring, Victoria Square, Centenary Square and the canals at Brindley Place and Gas Street Basin everything was fine if with a bit more graffiti. I had been expecting the worse visiting Birmingham but it turned out OK, even with the bin strike. Though Birmingham has always been cosmopolitan shall we say. Immigration was a topic with the locals in Chepstow, not an especially cosmopolitan town, they have had a influx of immigrants with some old army barracks having been turned into accommodation for refugees.
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