Category Archives: Thailand

Up your nose

Posted on 13 Sep 2020 by lornaofarabia

  We had our third round of COVID-19 tests today. We’re starting to feel like old pros. If you haven’t experienced this yet, I can say that a lot depends on the person doing the test. The PCR test, which … Continue reading →

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Keeping busy

Posted on 12 Sep 2020 by lornaofarabia

Like many people, we’ve had plenty of practice over the past few months with keeping ourselves entertained at home. The options in a hotel room are limited but somehow we manage to fill the days. I listen to my audio … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Hotel Grand Richmond

Posted on 10 Sep 2020 by lornaofarabia

We are all just prisoners here, of our own device The government of Thailand has had a ban on incoming international passenger flights since April. The only exceptions other than emergency landings are for military planes and repatriation flights chartered … Continue reading →

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Bangkok, at last (part two)

Posted on 4 Sep 2020 by lornaofarabia

Toward the end of June, our moving plans started to get a lot more complicated. The direct flight I had booked on United was cancelled. The Cairo airport was closed until further notice.There were no future commercial flights scheduled from … Continue reading →

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Bangkok, at last (part one)

Posted on 3 Sep 2020 by lornaofarabia

We decided a while back that 2020 would be the year we’d leave Egypt. Andreas would take his retirement and I would find a new job that would take us somewhere new and different. Last fall I spent evenings and … Continue reading →

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