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Nov 5 - Visa Hassles
The pictures below are thumbnails, meaning they are small copies of the real thing. You just click them. The weather in Norway and in Bangkok just now.

Time to get Martin's retirement visa, something Martin expected to give a lot of hassles and rightly so.

	As every morning, Kran is on a rope skipping exercise program, starting with 5 minutes every morning for the first week. Kran ready for the pool seen here with the pool cleaner.
	Martin having his bash in the pool, doing 2000 meters every morning. The water is perfect, 27o Centigrade.
	Martin finished his stint in the pool. Then off to the immigration office in Jomtien.
	After some frustrating paper shuffling, Martin had a beer outside another Norwegian owned bar. The waitress had a .38 Special case around her neck.
	Martin's sun glass flips were all worn out and this sterile sales man gave Martin a pair of polarized flip on's. This Buddha outside the bank is a nice touch.
	The busy streets of Jomtien outside the bank. Then off the the frustrating banks of Thailand. The entrance seen here.
	The hasslers inside the Siam Commercial Bank where they charge you to tell you how much money you have in the bank. Banks of Thailand are very old-fashioned, old-minded, ineffective and not very service minded. They think that you are there to pay their fat salaries. Particularly the management ones. The staff is overworked, underpaid and undertrained. Particularly in the English language. This branch, 0822 serve mostly foreigners and they have only one person with a reasonable knowledge of English. Not good. Martin with an old Rosenborg Football Club scarf. A very nice touch.
	Another of the buzzing streets of Jomtien, Pattaya. Ron from North Dakota. He is 68 and he wants his 4th wife, On, but she wouldn't buy it.
	Martin and Ron having a giggle together.