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  1. In the last three years, I have done exactly the opposite from what the WHO recommends, and I have never been healthier. I'll stay my course.
  2. Yes, except for the cooks at times/often. A better or more expensive restaurant is more likely to get a chef from India, who really knows how the food should taste. It's more difficult to get a Myanmarese-Nepali to do a proper South Indian Masala Dosa or some Gujarati dish, as they've never had those themselves.
  3. You're unlikely to find an Indian (as per nationality) in a tailor shop. The owners are usually Thai Sikhs born in Thailand, carrying Thai passports. The staff are ethnic Nepalese from Myanmar. Just saying.
  4. Wrong assumption. The people employed in the tailor shops are usually Myanmarese citizens of Nepali descent. It's easy to get a work permit for Myanmarese, and these chaps speak English and Hindi. The British Raj brought many Gurkhas and other Nepalese to Burma, these are their descendants.
  5. Next news item: Thailand will change its national flag to the Skull and Crossbones, to better represent the country's mindset. If the plan goes through, I will never set foot in a Thai hotel again. Maybe Airbnbs will be the solution.
  6. Don't generalise about a continent as large as Asia. In India no one's wearing...
  7. How will 'things change' if no one makes a start? Like, you for example? It's not like being in the trenches of Stalingrad and sticking your head out will get you shot.
  8. If you have a quality product, quality customers will come automatically. The word will spread. If you don't, you'll have to 'lure', 'entrap' or downright cheat your customers, and your lucky run will be short-lived. So easy really.
  9. A hard-working porter in Pak Klong Talat, Bangkok.
  10. For comparison, look at Mexico - places like Tulum and Playa del Carmen are booming, 30,000 tourists daily in Tulum. Maybe it's because you can virtually just hop on a plane and get 180 days on arrival? No bullcrap this, bullcrap that? And still Mexico has not been wiped out by Covid. Thailand's over-cautious, over-bureaucratic approach will kill its tourism industry.
  11. Yes, info on official websites is sketchy and you have to paste things together from here and there. If you click on 'e-visa' on the official gov site you get a pop-up in the upper right corner. Currently only 30 day visas for tourists, and you must be from one of the 100+ countries with reciprocal vax agreement. If in doubt send them a mail.
  12. Same for India as of today - if fully vaccinated, just a test up to 72 hours before departure, some web registration, and off you go. No test on arrival and free to travel anywhere.
  13. New brooms sweep clean: a mobile broom vendor doing his rounds in Phuket Town.
  14. Early morning shopping: a Muslim woman in Bang Tao, Phuket.
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