On vacation this summer? Then travel wisely
The summer of 2020 will be different than we are used to because of the corona virus. Going on holiday is less obvious this year. For those who go anyway, the government's advice is: prepare well and inform yourself.
Since I take statins for cholesterol (first Chlovas 40, now Mevalotin), I suffer from muscle pains in my arms, cramps in my legs and feet. Furthermore, my blood sugar appears to be out of control: where it used to be 120 before breakfast, it is now 170 at best.
Dutch Embassy Bangkok about traveling to Thailand
Thailand has closed all borders to inbound travelers at least until June 30, except for people of Thai nationality and those with professions in the transport sector such as pilots.
I don't understand why the Thai government gives so little information about when they want to allow foreign tourists again. Not only for the tourists themselves, but also for the Thai people who depend on tourism.
Every day, wherever you walk in, your body temperature is measured here. After all measurements, my temperature varies between 34 and 39.6 degrees, and I enter everywhere. Explaining to the person who has to do the boring job that I look a little less healthy at 34 degrees does not make sense to me. It remains Thailand, so that can be seen as criticism or a loss of face. So I keep my mouth shut.
It's just before 8am and quite a few tired but determined men and women arrive at a bar on Soi 6 of Pattaya. They are not there to drink, to celebrate or to prepare the bar for another day of visitors, but to embark on an intensive but well-spent six to seven hours preparing the daily dispensing of food to less fortunate people.
Do you live, work and/or study abroad? Then from 2 June you can visit nederlandwereldwijd.nl for information about voting abroad, AOW, the Registration of Non-Residents, citizen service number and logging in to the government from abroad.
Several Thai entrepreneurs in the US have been hit by riots, looting and vandalism after the death of black American George Floyd. The Thai owner of a jewelry store in Chicago, which was looted, says she suffered $1 million in damage.
Thai flock to Bang Saen beach on day off
Yesterday it became so busy on Bang Saen beach that the distance rules were no longer observed. Thai had a day off because of the Queen's birthday. The residents of Bangkok therefore flocked to Bang Saen. The parking lots at the beach were overcrowded and traffic jams arose.
Is a Thai motorcycle license with Thai insurance valid in Bali, if a Dutch person rents a scooter there?
We booked tickets with KLM in September 2019 for flights from Amsterdam to Bangkok on June 14 and June 20, 2020. The flight from June 14 has been moved by KLM to June 13.
Blog Ambassador Kees Rade (18)
Thailand has just entered the third phase of the country's reopening. Fortunately, normal life is starting to return more and more. Many shops are open again, many companies have started up again. But this certainly does not mean that we are already back to the situation as it was before the start of the pandemic. The question is whether we will ever go back there again.
After two months of lockdown, street vendors are hoping that tourists will return to Pattaya now that the beaches are accessible again.
Due to the increase in gun violence in the country, the Bangkok Post describes the problem as "Thailand's other pandemic" in an article. According to statistics, firearms are used in more than half of crimes in Thailand. In many cases, people lose their temper, even over minor disagreements, and a gun is reached to solve the problem.
The Ministry of Transport will propose to fully resume public transport throughout the country. There is an exception for provinces that still use a lockdown. The proposal concerns interprovincial bus and train transport and all domestic flights.
I am a man recently 80 years old and reasonably healthy. Usually stay in Isaan/Thailand for half a year and in the Czech Republic (country of residence) for half a year.
Sathorn Unique Tower in Bangkok
The Sathorn Unique Tower in Bangkok is an unfinished skyscraper in the Thai capital Bangkok. Planned as a luxury high-rise complex, construction was halted during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, when it was already about 80 percent complete.