Tag Archives: Bangkok

Celebrating Christmas and happy news… with a six star Christmas dinner

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Choeng Mon beach

Choeng Mon beach

Friday, 23 December 2016 to Thursday, 29 December 2016
For some reason I woke up at 03:00 even though the alarm was set for 04:00, which is when I got up, and we

left for the airport at 4:30. Adri dropped me at the airport by 04:45 and by 05:00 I was seated in the lovely open-air departures area of the Koh Samui Airport. I was on my way to fetch our passports in Bangkok which had been returned to the TLS Contact Centre from the French Embassy, with or without a Schengen Visa, that remained to be seen, but we were of course hoping it would be the former. Continue reading →

Dealing with bureaucracy in Bangkok

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Flying from Chiang Rai to Bangkok

Flying from Chiang Rai to Bangkok

Friday, 9 December 2016 to Thursday, 15 December 2016
We got up leisurely at 06:30 Friday morning and by 09:00 we were fully packed and loaded into the taxi – the start of our trip to Bangkok – and were dropped off at the airport 20 minutes later. By 10:30 we were ready to leave but the plane was not, it was only at 11:00 that we got underway. By 12:00 we picked up our luggage from the carousel at the Don Muang airport and headed out into the arrivals hall where we were greeted with calls of “Taxi taxi!!”

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