Thai Visa Trip
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 29 Nov 2016 22:57
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Thai Visa Application Trip
 We left Beez bright and
early, left Baby Beez in Straits Quay Marina and called for an Uber
Taxi. A lovely man in a posh car arrived and we soon learned he was on a two
year sabbatical from his Ministerial Department to do an extension degree in
land management, especially reclamation. He drives in the morning and studies in
the afternoon, soon at the Embassy, Bear handed over two pounds in fare and a
smashing man at the gate handed us over to his colleague who put all our papers
in order. A lady took our application and thirty pounds from each of us and bade
us return between two and four the following afternoon, half past nine and a
clear day for tourism ahead. We shocked the taxis waiting outside when we said
we wanted to walk to the Botanic Gardens, off we went passing parsey house after parsey house.
  What we thought was another Embassy
turned out to be a gated community of six apartments,
so the gatekeeper told us. We chatted for a while and on we went.
 We watched a gang
of ants carrying their prize.
 A Dallas style
house.
 Modern and
fresh.
   We stop to watch a
pair of pied naped orioles.
 Sadly, the next house is a wreck of its former glory.
  We leave the posh area, bimble past a
few shops and along the main road, things get more
rustic.
 Our first
temple of the day.
   Opposite, a spring
clean and spruce up is underway.
 Passing our first temple we see just how intricate the carving is.
   A splendid garage
door and I test out a new mode of transport,
all well until a fit of the giggles prevents take
off. I’m staying particularly quiet at this
point......
  We bimble by a
variety of places of ‘therapy’ – mind and body.
   Always pleased to report that ‘you
never know what’s next’. Osprey, caterpillars and a cement
mixer.........
  A beautiful
temple high on a hill.
 A temple gateway under
construction.
 My favourite house of
the day.
 We see a Bee Gallery and nip in for a
look but not before we read Words of Wisdom.
ALL IN ALL A STRAIGHTFORWARD
START TO A COLOURFUL DAY
INCREDIBLY QUICK AND
EASY |