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Looked like he brake checked her, which is pretty silly when you're the one on a motorbike! With headphones like that on one wonders if he was the distracted driver?
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I'd also be interested to hear which airline allowed him to board his flight with a one way ticket?
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I would love to know what makes these so 'illegal' as they're just a bike with a different fairing really.....
Especially when there are loads of completely unroadworthy 3 wheeled contraptions on the roads both crappy old sidecar outfits and the badly modified two wheeled cart on the front of an old motorbike.
Andrew
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48 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:
For divorce yes.
For death of Thai wife no.
Could you expand upon what happens if your Thai wife dies and you are on marriage extension? Is there a grace period to swap to a retirement extension? Or is there some way to maintain the marriage extension legacy?
Andrew
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On 11/4/2023 at 9:16 AM, richard_smith237 said:
Very true.... I visit Japan a lot and the degree of social consideration and conformity there is exceptionally high.
Haha! I often wonder what all the Japanese tourists (and senior company staff) make of (the lack of) Thai manners and the driving standards!
Andrew
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On 11/5/2023 at 11:50 AM, StayinThailand2much said:
It doesn't work like that. I thought so too; left well before midnight, but still got an 'overstay' stamp in my passport, cause my flight was scheduled for 2 a.m., or so, the next morning...
Not like that for me, in December 2021 came in on a TR60, Thai Airways TG910 flight home to UK was on day 61 @ 00.15 hrs, cleared outbound immigration at about 21.00 hrs without any questions or unwelcome passport stamps (no questions inbound either)..........
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7 hours ago, kingstonkid said:
The green line does not include Rangsit.
The green line runs from Khu Kot to Morchit.
Khu Khot is on the border of Pathum Thani and BMA
The Rangsit statin is part of the RED LINE which is the 20 baht fare
The Green line actually runs from Khu Kot to
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11 hours ago, The Fugitive said:
Absolutely! Move to the left actually driving in the breakdown lane before your left hand turn.
I was mainly refering to the urban environment, down the moobahn where there seems to be more careless riding, although you still need to be careful positioning to turn left.
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11 hours ago, Henryford said:
Or worse, undertake on the left when i am signalling and about to turn left.
You need to get closer to the left hand margin so they can't sneak up the left side.....
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On 11/4/2023 at 12:15 PM, skatewash said:
Exactly correct. From the application search page itself: "แสดงข้อมูลวันที่เข้าพักย้อนหลัง 7 วันเท่านั้น / Data are shown within only 7 days of Check-in Date".
From https://tm30.immigration.go.th/TM30/Foreigner/TM30TH/FAQ.htmlQuestion: Found a problem, unable to search for information on notification of residence of foreigners dating back more than 7 days.
Answer. According to the policy of the Immigration Bureau, the use of the system can search for accommodation notification information dating back no more than 7 days. If conditions are specified for notification of accommodation going back more than 7 days, it cannot be searched.Used the new system to register my stay, (staying until 01/01/24) but due to a family bereavement we're off back to the UK this week (lhelpfully the tickets were fully flexible this time). Is there any need or ability to edit the departure date or re-register with the new departure date? We're probably not going to be back until later in January anyway.
TIA Andrew
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On the subject of eVisa application to Royal THai Embassy London, have they simplified the web form by removing some questions? I'm sure that some of my previous applications you had to submit a head and shoulders photograph holding your passport bio page and also download, sign and scan a declaration?
Andrew, Confused of Oxford
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14 hours ago, parafareno said:
you cant even compare it to basmati....fluffy basmati....vs sticked up thai jasmine rice....why the thailand just dont replace basmati with jasmin rice...?
Place rice in a seive and wash liberally with running water until the water run into a jug is clear, cook in a rice cooker with more or less water depending on if you prefer it wetter/softer or drier/harder.......
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I've been coming to Thailand once or twice a year for >20 years and driving here for the last 15 or so years, so out of interest this year I thought I'd make a concerted effort to try and get a Thai driving licence to save keep getting international driving permits.
I tried at BangPu (SamutPrakan) land trasnsport office when we went to renew the car tax earlier this month, and was ushered in for a chat with the boss who presented me with a printed slip in Thai & English detailing the requirements for a licence.
1: Signed copies of passport bio and latest entry/visa pages. Easy enough to do.
2: Certificate of address from immigration.
Went to immigration, however they were adamant that they can only issue residence certificate if you're on a long term visa and not my TR60 visa (obvious really as a tourist isn't a resident). I did an online TM30 on arrival but that didn't count.
3: Medical certificate. Should be straightforward enough, I still have a pulse!
Evidence of completing 1 hour DLT online eLearning. Easy enough if you can stay awake through some pretty banal rubbish and answer some easy questions.
Went back to DLT and asked the boss man 'if there was any other way' and his only suggestion was to get a residence certificate from the UK embassy, but on their website it specifically mentions that they only do them for long term visas.
So unless anybody has any suggestions for 'shortcuts' it looks like I've drawn a blank until I move here
Andrew
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On 12/6/2022 at 5:18 AM, MJCM said:
I just wonder in this case what happened to the Police credo "Protect and Serve" ????
It became protect self and self serving!
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I did exactly this on our last trip (on a TR60) here, Thai Airways changed their timetable mid trip and moved us to a 16 hour BKK>HKT>LHR flight on day 58, after asking nicely they moved us to a direct flight on the 61st day @00.15 Hrs. Not a problem as we obviously cleared immigration earlier in the evening of the 60th day. Certainly maxed out the value of the TR60 Visa!
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At 18.20 tonight (full moon) the ChaoPraya is pretty high on the riverfront at SamutPrakan city hall, tide tables say about 3.6M. The level seems about the same as the November 2011 floods in that the footpath nearest the river is just underwater. As the river level is a good 1~1.5M above the car park it's interesting to see the concrete structure leaking a bit!
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17 minutes ago, Gungpao said:
You can download it from the evisa application
Good point, I'd forgotten that option....... Andrew
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27 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:
The system says my visa has been delivered by email but in fact I haven't received any emails at all from them. I've checked my email address on their system and I've also checked my spam folder but there's defintely nothing there. So what do I do now?
That was quick! Have you checked your spam / junk mailbox? Some providers like btinternet filter emails before your email app sees them. You should perhaps use a web browser and check your emails online instead of with an app.
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@edwardandtubs I'd bang your application in anyway, I'm not convinced that the eVisas are processed in the UK, as the eMail with my other halfs eVisa was sent @ 05:20. The eVisa website is a .gov.th run by the ministry of foreign affairs and Monday is a normal working day here.
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47 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:
Thanks, It's four working days (submitting this weekend and hoping to travel next weekend - Monday is a UK bank holiday).
Nothing to do with leaving Thailand as I've been in the UK for months.
If you've got all your documents scanned and ready whack your application in quick, it's only 16:00 on a Friday in the UK. You <should> be OK, I put my application in online on a Friday afternoon and got eVisa @ 18:00 on the following Tuesday, so only two full working days. However....... submitted the little womans application on the Saturday morning and finally arrived @ 05:20 on the Friday so 4 working days. Hers might have been delayed as she's Thai by birth, naturalised British.
Andrew
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@worgeordieBy 'tree rats' I guess you mean squirrels?
If it is squirrels I'll be surprised as all the times I've been here I've never seen any and we've got a big Mango tree in the garden where I've seen 'Gingaa' (a small lizard/iguana) before.
Andrew
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Hi,
As in the title, does anyone have contact details for a Snake / Reptile catcher in Samut Prakan? We're quite near to the 'Robinson Lifestyle Centre' on the Sukhumvit Road.
It appears we have what is probably some kind of lizard in our bungalow roof space and I'm too fat and old to go climbing about above a suspended ceiling!
When we were here at the beginning of this year we heard some scrabbling above the ceiling it but it sounds louder / bigger now, pretty sure it's not squirrels (never seen them around here) or Tokae (we've had Tokae outside before and would hear them calling), could be rats I suppose, but sounds heavier than that.
Family reckon they've seen baby water monitor around so probably it's grown a bit and could do with removing.
Andrew
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20 minutes ago, VirgoSG said:
I would bet a fair amount of money that these are the footprints of a tokay gecko. You can see the thicker pad marks in the photo. Not many creatures can climb a flat wall -- water monitors certainly cannot do that. The latter can climb trees, but don't have the adhesion required to climb a flat surface.
Tokays also love running around in the roof space and in my experience the sound they make doing so is much louder than you might expect from their size -- but males can run to at least 40cm long and be pretty heavy.
We have them frequently in the roof space of our villa (and in the ground floor ceiling too). But they don't always stay around very long for some reason.
Beautiful creatures anywayI agree that it's likely to be the footprints of a gecko, but it's odd that we haven't heard them out and about. The Tokaes we had before were around 300mm long but these prints belong to something a good deal larger.
When we had Tokae geckos on the other side of the house before we would regularly hear them doing their unique call but the resident family members got rid of them and I haven't heard them for several years.
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45 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:
Someone with a marker pen and a sense of humour?
Have you not had a look in the roof space?
Yeah, had a little look by lifting a suspended ceilng tile in the bathroom but couldn't see anything. I'm nowhere near fit enough or small enough to go crawling about up there! It's certainly accessible because the TV antenna installers have been up there to run a couple of cables across.
I wish I'd bought an infrared wildlife camera with me from the UK to stick up there for a few days, might have to go and have a look in Pantip Plaza or Fortune Town and see if there's anything available.
Thai e-visa approved: do you still need to print it?
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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Check in staff (at LHR in my case) can obviously see that the return ticket date is more than 30 days later and have always asked to see my eVisa. Immigration at Suvarnabhumi have variously folded and stapled or tucked the printout in my passport and last time just handed it back, as far as I can see the actual visa is what they stamp in the passport and the eVisa is just like a pre-approval.
Andrew