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by REEM
Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Car auctions
Replies: 13
Views: 787

Re: Car auctions

2017 or 2018. It was metallic red. Anyone can attend these Customs Dept.auctions, and if they still hold them they will be announced on the Customs Dept.website. I attended 3 or 4 times and it was always an interesting experience to watch the characters there. There were the ultra wealthy Thai males...
by REEM
Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Car auctions
Replies: 13
Views: 787

Re: Car auctions

I sometimes used to go with a Thai friend to the auctions at the Customs Department in Khlong Toei in Bangkok. He is a collector of classic Jags and Mercs. As Nereus posted, the auctions are rigged and outsiders stand little chance of picking up a bargain. Prior to the auction there is viewing, but ...
by REEM
Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: South Of Hua Hin
Topic: Khao Tao Lake
Replies: 281
Views: 33873

Re: Khao Tao Lake

Perhaps a local government building?
I walked past it last week and asked one of the workers what they were building.

I was told it is going to be a government building, but he didnt know if it was the local government or the military.
by REEM
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Thai Driving License renewal
Replies: 360
Views: 36263

Re: Thai Driving License renewal

My driving licence, the one that I obtained 5 years ago after starting this thread, expires at the end of this month. I renewed it at Pranburi last week. My retirement visa expired during my stay in the UK during Covid, and since then I have returned to Thailand on 60 day and 90 day tourist e-visas,...
by REEM
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:02 am
Forum: Health Issues
Topic: Biopsy due to possible skin cancer on face
Replies: 20
Views: 2979

Re: Biopsy due to possible skin cancer on face

Report re.Dr Chaisit clinic Soi 35. The other day my wife was seen by Dr Chaisit at her clinic on Soi 35 to have 2 mole like lesions and one dark coloured skin patch examined and identified. The moles were diagnosed as Sebborrhoiec Keratoses and not cancerous, and the dark patch was what is called a...
by REEM
Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:28 pm
Forum: Life In Thailand, Opinion & Relationships
Topic: Thailand Air Quality and Pollution Alerts
Replies: 286
Views: 190569

Re: Thailand Air Quality and Pollution Alerts

How is it in Hua Hin right now ?
by REEM
Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:13 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Thai Driving License renewal
Replies: 360
Views: 36263

Re: Thai Driving License renewal 2019-22

Since Covid, when my non-imm. retirement visa expired I have been coming to Thailand two or three times a year using 60 day tourist visas. My driving licence expires in Feb 2024 and I will need to renew. Will I be able to do this on a tourist visa? (to prove residence I have a yellow book in my name...
by REEM
Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:06 pm
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Golden Place Recommendations
Replies: 5
Views: 805

Re: Golden Place Recommendations

There are certainly no bargains there, but the vegetables and greens are organic and reasonably priced. For those into herbal medicines, soaps and shampoos etc. they have a large but expensive selection. There is also a wide selection of Thai dried fruits, "artisan" rice cracker type stuff...
by REEM
Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:08 pm
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Comparing restaurant prices between Hua Hin and the UK
Replies: 24
Views: 1493

Re: Comparing restaurant prices between Hua Hin and the UK

... a high street fishmonger... Few and far between these days! Not really, certainly less than a few years ago, but they do exist and there are many online coastal fisheries that home deliver inland on a daily basis. Our local market has half a dozen traditional fishmongers, and butchers shops. Fo...
by REEM
Tue Jun 06, 2023 1:48 pm
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Comparing restaurant prices between Hua Hin and the UK
Replies: 24
Views: 1493

Re: Comparing restaurant prices between Hua Hin and the UK

A box of frozen prawns in the UK could easily set you back £50 in the UK.
£12/kilo in Aldi. Tiger king prawns from a high street fishmonger, £25 to £30.
by REEM
Thu May 11, 2023 2:15 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Phone charger destroys car, Sattahip
Replies: 7
Views: 780

Re: Phone charger destroys car, Sattahip

A cheap Chinese replacement battery in a phone will have overheated and caught fire, perhaps it was connected to an even cheaper Chinese powerbank, but once a lithium battery catches fire, run for your life, they are impossible to extinguish. Lithium-ion batteries, found in many popular consumer pro...
by REEM
Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:56 am
Forum: The Beach Bar
Topic: Weather in Hua Hin & Thailand
Replies: 4688
Views: 426453

Re: Weather in Hua Hin & Thailand

A bit windy for 10 minutes, the skies darkened for 5 minutes and it barely drizzled for 2 minutes. Bor Fai, near Toyota.

What a disappointment. Thai weather from December to August is a non stop borefest. Where's the wind, the cloud formations, the rain, the daily changes that make life interesting.
by REEM
Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:46 pm
Forum: Ask The Expats
Topic: Fitting a Bum spray gun in the UK.
Replies: 6
Views: 789

Fitting a Bum spray gun in the UK.

I have become used to the convenience and hygeine of the bum gun and wish to take one back to the UK and ask a plumber to install it in our home there. If anyone has done this, or if anyone is a plumber with knowledge of UK sizes, water pressures and valves, then I would be grateful for some answers...
by REEM
Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:21 am
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: UK banks closing accounts for expats
Replies: 94
Views: 197369

Re: UK bank closing accounts for customers living in Thailand

Try Lloyds International, based in both the Isle of Man and in Jersey.

They have sterling accounts with credit and debit cards for non res UK citizens.
by REEM
Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 3 killed in train crash soi 94
Replies: 41
Views: 3005

Re: 3 killed in train crash soi 94

Investigators are working to ascertain how and why the accident occurred. Don't need Columbo for this one. According to the Bangkok Post link they were returning at 4 a.m. from a party, and so the driver was in all probability intoxicated and the lights of the approaching train will have barely reg...