@Kathy ***************

not true please don't give advice if you are not informed

There's a guy in my town who has a huge blue parrot that flies along following him when he rides his motorbike. Once it started circling me and trying to land on me as I was riding along.

@Michael *******

OK thanks I'll try that!

I've had this for months now with google. Even though I have settings set to translate to English, the Google Search is always in Thai, only changes to English after I make a page selection.

@Ken *******

that's interesting I didn't know that was possible.

@Ken *******

my international licence had expired but not my Australian ones when I did the tests.

@Mike ********

no you go to transport not immigration for licenses.

No it's extremely easy if you have a current licence in English from your home country.... They accept it and it's basically just the same as a Thai person renewing their license rather than a new application. Having said that, there's separate car and bike licenses here. I always advise people to obtain their bike licence back home first. If you don't have a bike licence already the process will be longer and require a practical test. Otherwise one can obtain both licenses easily in about 2 -3 hours. Just have to do quick eye test, reflex test and sit through a video in Thai that means nothing if you can't speak the language but they force you sit there anyway, I was lucky they let me leave the video early.

@Oliver *******

yeah Bangkok is like another planet compared to the far south! Each to their own, I can only handle Bangkok for a couple of days myself, I love a good burger too, but a real one, to me Maccas tastes awful.

@Oliver *******

Ao Nang almost all the crappy foreign fast food places are shut the Thai places are doing OK though and there's enough foreigners to keep a quality restaurants open when you need a feed from home or a decent coffee.