Our Last Week in Thailand

Our Last Week in Thailand was a strange experience. I had been living in a remote Thai village for 12 years, but was leaving...

Our Last Week in Thailand

When we were in the Spanish Embassy in Bangkok a couple of days ago, a man that I think was in charge of the visa section, said to us: “I am prepared to grant you a ninety-day visa.”

I asked when, he asked when we wanted to leave – the 23rd of January – and he replied, “I can’t see a problem with that”.

We were elated, naturally, after all the hoops we have had to jump through. So, with any luck, we will be flying out in eight days’ time, and we will arrive in Malaga on the 24th to start a new life… like we tried to do there in May, last year. There is a difference though.

Last year, my wife was full of excitement, but when her visa ran out, and she still didn’t have time to apply for residency, she became despondent, and had a nervous breakdown. She is frightened that that is going to happen again this year. She has begged me to stay here.

However, that is not possible, and she knows it. Sometimes, I think I can see in her eyes that she doesn’t want to go through all the stress and indignation of not getting residency again, and I don’t blame her. However, if we don’t try again now, my funds will be exhausted, and we will have to live 5,000 miles apart, and neither of us wants that either.

So, I am confident that she will get a visa, but beyond that the future is still far from certain.

In the meantime, we will stay in the village until Neem is called to Bangkok to collect her visa, and then we will stay with her sister, who lives a mile or two from Suvarnabhumi International Airport.

We both know that the time will fly now, and I share Neem’s anxiety about saying ‘Goodbye’ to everyone, and not forgetting anything essential, because I hope we won’t be coming back again this year.

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Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.