Life In Trang

THAILAND CULTURE...

This is Trang...

Beautiful, noisy, sweet tea drinking, hard to understand the accent, southern Thailand town. Rich in culture. Very few westerners. Not at all set up for us. Very few Thais speak English down here. Good place to learn to speak Thai.





By the way, the town is still cut off. Morning I go explore. Nah, no way. Maybe OK in a humvee. Big river across the road. What do you save first? I think precious family belongings, cash, precious stuff, paperwork, photos...

Then the TV if you can carry it. And then the motorbikes. Forget about the rest.

I visit a farang friend. Living with him and his Thai wife is a family. They have a 2 storey home. Floods came quickly. They put everything upstairs, second floor. Gotta be ok, right?

Wrong. Water creeps up to second floor. Got to get everything out of house real fast. Scarey stuff. My heart goes out to them. We need boats down her. :-)

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Stay cool!

Martin

Helicopters Are Us!

THAILAND CULTURE...

I woke up to a sunny day. The dawn looked all warm, bright and alive. People
are up and about. Water is going down...

Still lots of problems about, and repairs to be done. Removing fish from
house. Finding somewhere dry to sit. Doing something about the electrical
system. :-)

The world (you and me) needs to get serious about global warming 'cause baby
I'm sure things like this are from exactly that.

Farangs like me are visa people (VPs). :-) We need to be constantly thinking
about doing 'le border run' which means going outside Thailand borders for
about 10 or so minutes. Stamp the passport in another country, and then walk
back into Thailand again.

I'll go into details later, and give you a pictorial description.

But right now, I can't go to any border unless I've got a helicopter.
They're flying overhead, huge people movers... Beautiful. By the way, if I
overstay the visa, it costs me 200 baht a day (approx usd$5?)

Anyway it's all real good news for the fishermen.

And being sunny today they might even be back cutting rubber...

And it's ok for me because my visa isn't due (yet)...

Enjoy!

Martin