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AMI RESORT｜Moving to Bangkok: the paperwork and the life, in diagrams

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Diagram laying the five ways out of Bangkok's airport along a clock from midnight to midnight. Only two bands run the whole way — the metered taxi and the AOT Limousine. The airport train runs 05:30 to 24:00, the S1 airport bus 04:30 to 22:00 and the Limo Bus 08:00 to 22:00.

A diagram with the single line of address printed on a hotel booking split into 5 parts along the top — 98 RAMA 4 ROAD, SI LOM, BANG RAK, BANGKOK and 10500 — each joined by a line to the matching accommodation field of the Thailand arrival card below: Address, Sub-district, District, Province and Post code. Of the fields below, only Type of accommodation, Address and Province are coloured and marked required; the other 3 are grey and marked optional.

Diagram placing the same 100,000 yen against three outcomes: 21,000 baht at an exchange counter in the city, 20,900 baht at the counter in the airport station, and 20,571 baht at a bank counter. Below are the four ways of doing it — changing at a counter, withdrawing at an ATM, paying by card and sending money.

Diagram of the four steps of the Thai e-Visa application form, numbered and laid out from left to right. Check Your Eligibility, Applicant Information and Travel Information share the same pale blue; only Supporting Documents is pink, marking the one step whose contents change with the visa type.

Diagram of four bands along a days-after-arrival axis: visa-free ran to 60 days until 14 September 2026 and to 30 days from 15 September, while a DTV allows 180 days per entry and 360 days in total after an extension.

A desk in a room facing the sea. A laptop, a pile of books, a handheld console, a mug, a suitcase. Outside the window, sand and water.

I write from this room

I have not settled on a country. I move from hotel to hotel, hand almost all of the work to AI and to people, and go to the pool and the spa.

The paperwork I got through along the way, the amounts I paid, and the record of the blunders — that is what sits here.

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