Keithambrose

So, Thursday is not the new Friday?

It's because you are so good looking!

Interesting that Yakusa dominate the tattoo market in Japan, so to speak. My clients there told me that if you were tattooed, and went to an Onsen, they would not let you in. The other thing to look for, I was told, was missing fingers, punishment if a member did something wrong! Amusingly, I was playing golf at the very upmarket Yokohama Country Club, and my clients cautioned me that my drive must not hit the group in front as 'they were yakusa'. No tattoos visible, and I couldn't drive that far anyway!

Yes, I remember him!

Page doesn't load, at least not for me!

Or Venezuela.

I never saw any mice, plenty of rats, in human form!

I wonder if this is just window dressing! The whole situation was appalling, but very Thailand!

Cape Town used to be very violent, with people living behind barbed wire fences, and signs saying, 'Armed response team in 5 mins'. In our boutique hotel, in a leafy suburb on the way up to Table Mountain, we were advised not to walk 1km to a restaurant, too dangerous they said. The 'township', nearby, which had over one million people, was heartbreaking. Our black waitress, who lived there had sent her 5 year old daughter away, as she was worried that she would be raped! Her husband had been murdered. Have things changed?

Thanks, very helpful. So 'elderly' pax can no longer use Fast Track lane? I usually tavel biz class, so I would be ok, but what about the over 70s in economy?

Any idea where zones 1 and 3 are? Is there a zone 2? Which airlines use which zone? I can't remember zones as such! Just the usual milling around looking for the priority lane!

Indeed, Chinese flags everywhere in the airport, and the new town at the airport has a Chinese name!

Yes, it's 70, and older.

Here's hoping! The business travellers will be royally pissed off. (Pun intended!)

Good points again. In Cambodia, my guide told me that the local economy gains nothing from all the Chinese tourists, who fly on Chinese Airlines, travel on Chinese buses, and stay and eat in Chinese hotels. See discussion in other thread.

Quite right. Chinese are already slowly encroaching into Thailand, and will certainly not give up. If necessary, thick, and thicker, brown envelopes will be deployed. Thailand is a much bigger, and more developed, economy than Lao or Cambodia, and was not devastated by civil war, but that makes it an attractive target for China.itonicallybtge various laws that are seen to bexanti farang, are a useful buffer. However, they may not be enough.

I saw that. Really weird. However it is still there, it seems, and i hope, for the elderly, into which group I fall!

Sounds fairly typical!

Indeed. Weird to think otherwise. Perhaps thaiophilus should read the message again.

It's still very common here in UK. Friends were in bed for a couple of days. And very tired after. For some time. They had 5 jabs. Of course antibiotics don't work, surely one thing everyone knows, is that Covid is a virus.

To be fair, he is citing a continent, not a single country....

The last comment may be a banality, but it is often so!

Hmm, looks like a way out! After a decent interval, the charges can be discreetly dropped. Still at least he expressed regret, more than the Red Bull guy!

I wonder. I hope you are right, but I don't think that the army, or he who can't be named, are influenced by academics. Still I read that General Prawit may be in a spot of bother with his party, so perhaps there is some hope!

That's quite high. Were they all top, or were some vers?