Search results

Re-Qatar Airways. When I booked the flight it was way cheaper than anyone else comparable. Check-in robots excepted, their people are very pleasant and helpful, particularly the flight crews, much more so than the average. The biggest issue is that everything is very very slow indeed, and a big...

Was it Qatar's fault or Thai Immigration? Fair point. Thai staff employed at check-in by Qatar - yes. The senior official who sorted it out was Thai Immigration not a Qatar employee. But.. we already knew about that disclaimer form because my wife had had a problem a few years ago, when for some...

My wife and I travelled back from Bangkok to London on Tuesday this week via Qatar Airways, except that we very nearly didn't. We were using the return leg of our return tickets booked in May. At check-in my wife was told she could not fly because she did not have an already booked flight back...

I really don't like the way that Bangkok Bank operate but I still use them. My principle is still to keep the absolute minimum of money in Thailand. Bangkok Bank (I still believe) gives a better exchange rate than the other Thai banks, but then, as already said, they offset that with crafty...

So what does that mean in actual day-to-day practice, if anything? I have no idea.

They look OK. One thing to keep an eye on - it states net weight 1kg - but not whether that means total weight of pack less packaging, i.e. gross weight of sausages, or net weight of sausages excluding any ice glaze, or, which would be the best, the weight of sausages after defrosting. (but...

Not the best as frisbees either

I'm wondering how many customers have persuaded Nookie to stock pickled cockles and 5 flavours of Kamagra jellies. Pickled oysters wouldn't have worked either. Blasts from the past, from before the days of refrigerators - the pastry of Fray Bentos canned meat pies lives on.

Have you had a cold shower yet? Will the new progressive lenses be rose tinted? Will she look even better or progressively worse through the new bins? Looking forward to the next instalment:):) p.s. for those non-English, or English but never been south of Watford - in London slang the word...

Dream on folks - I'm thinking maybe the same as 3 years ago when the reservoir was empty and emergency money was allocated but the only actual work carried out was like Daddy playing on the beach with his Tonka toys. Also I'm slightly confused by this - it presumably means they have already...

Who knows? I live within walking distance - in theory????????? But never in a million years in practice. That very busy crossroads is already a nightmare of trucks turning right past the entrance to the new market; red light running already produces a stream of accidents; car parking and entry...

I absolutely understand what you say, but don't shoot the messenger. I'm only telling people what happened so that they can take all conceivable paperwork with them just in case, even though they might not expect it to be needed. Not everyone lives close to the Immigration office. If you have...

Yesterday I went with my wife to Surin Immigration to apply for a single Thailand re-entry permit. I did it very early, just in case of either having a problem, or that the rules might change, even though the proposed date is next month. As usual, the info I had to supply was not as I had...

Last time when I tried to book the Buriram hotel, I could not do so. The Manager told my wife it was only for V I P visitors !!!! - which I assumed meant connected with the football club or race track. The Land of Smiles ???????

To the delight of tourism operators, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) decided on Thursday to resume the Test & Go scheme but modified it to suit the Omicron situation. That is the current total crap headline of delusion in The Nation: Today's announcements from the CCSA...

Did they catch you?

Are they good or a modern Chinese Trabant?

Did it say "rejected" or "UNSUCCESS"? Unsuccess has much more Thainess.

A young serving police officer needed to certify an alleged former Squadron Leader under suspicion as to who he really is ??? I think I understand that. "These are the times that try men's souls" - Kingston Trio, M. T. A., 1959 - I remember it well

As I don't have any "money in the bank" guarantees, all of this stuff tells me not to trust anything electronic, and that I will just present myself, with wife, at the Surin Immigration Office with a bagful of paperwork, and evidence, and completed forms, and some photographs, and some money...