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Corona refugee in Thailand: »I'm still here. And I don't have a return flight "

2021-01-22T06:19:34.222Z


In March 2020, a German is flying to Thailand on vacation. And stays. He studies, buys a moped, becomes a yoga teacher and falls in love. Back home, in the shutdown? D rather not.


"Why don't we just stay here?"

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Beach in Thailand

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"We hardly had any contact with Thai people during the lockdown"

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"That's a sign.

Okay from above.

Now i stay "

"I'm not fed up with all of this - neither the sand nor the sound of the sea"

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