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  1. Looks as if the tax on imported booze has gone up, but not by that much. https://www.reuters.com/article/thailand-taxes-idUSL4N1LX03R
  2. Remember you need to go down to the lowest level and into the train station concourse. The exchange booths that give the best rate are between the ticket machines and the ticket barrier. The booths before the ramp leading down to the station are part of the airport cartel.
  3. If you just want to monitor the current rate on the street, TT post their rates at start-of-business here https://ttexchange.com/ They don't update it through the day, so you wouldn't catch minor fluctuations, but it might be enough for those of us outside the country.
  4. Is this what your wife was thinking of? https://phuket-go.com/phuket-news/islands/sea-horse-ferry-launches-blue-dolphin-service-between-sattahip-and-koh-samui/
  5. Well, I was there at the time. We flew out of Suvarnabhumi six hours before the airport was shut down This was with Jet airways, so a transit in Mumbai. We left Mumbai four hours before the terrorist attack shut down the airport there.
  6. In my experience (admittedly pushing three years old), the booths in the railway station concourse, past the ticket machines, will give you a rate similar to TT in Pattaya. I would guess that being in the railway station rather than the airport proper, they don't pay airport rents, and don't have to belong to the airport cartel.
  7. Pre-Covid, one could go down to the basement in Suvarnabhumi and into the railway station concourse. Three booths (I think) were sited between the ticket machines and the ticked barriers. These offered a rate similar to the Pattaya TT rate. I assume that this was possible because they were in the railway station, not the airport, and did not have to belong to the airport cartel. Does anyone know if they are still open?
  8. Without doing the maths, it seems to me that once the car was airborne, the gyroscopic effect of the spinning crankshaft/flywheel/gearbox etc and also of the spinning drive wheels would cause the car to twist in midair, so hitting the tree sideways would be qiite possible. As for believing it, I'd believe anything of a seventeen-year-old driving a fast car. It is indeed an absolute tragedy.
  9. That's right - Glitterman. Pre-Covid, he could be seen ocasionally cycling around the Wimbledon/Merton area in South West London.
  10. Or, for that matter, whether she had actually gone to a quarantine hotel or just vanished into a bed-sit sonewhere on the island. That's seriously slack. The interviewer suggested she contact the German embassy and the local consul-general. I wonder what will come of that. The family's story shows an extremely heavy handed approach, and I can see many cancellations once the story hits the western press. No family is going to risk being treated like that.
  11. Exactly. The present system of registration is likely to create a permsnent pool of infection and generate new varianth because those who do get sick will try to tough it out at home. Worst case scenario, of course, but....
  12. I can't see any of the undocumented/illegals coming forward for the vaccine, anyway, for fear of being identified, arrested and deported.
  13. I've seen that somewhere - I think it's on the steps at the beach road end of Mike's Mall, outside the coffee shop.
  14. There may well be a demand for woolly hats in a few months time when the temperature drops. I can remember a coach tour from Chiang Mai when at sunset the temperature in the coach dropped from impossibly hot to merely too hot, and the guide and driver both put on woolly sweaters, and there was a long-tail boat trip from Phuket where the thai companion on one of the other falangs was well wrapped up, including a woolly hat.
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