This was my first trip to Bangkok from the US. The year was 2013. I was 56 and had just begun to travel the world and only my second trip to Asia. It was officially a business trip so expenses like hotel and food I had to budget about $100 a day. I had read…
My name is John and I’m a 34 year old American guy. This is my story from my most recent vacation to Thailand. My story begins earlier this year with my first ever trip to Thailand. I was in a relationship for five years prior to this and after feeling ready to begin dating again…
It’s not so much a story as a compilation of what I’ve learned over the last 12 years of living and visiting in Thailand and the Philippines. Being an old dog I can say the more you know the more you know you don’t know. Comparing the Two Countries Since a large part of its…
My name is Kurt and I’m from Germany. I’m 43 years old. I’m living in a suburb of Frankfurt. I work as a controller for several hospitals doing mostly financial and cash flow reports for management. I’m not rich I have a small house and I’m making decent money. I am six feet tall and…
I started going to Thailand about 12 years ago. I love the place. I have experienced many stupid and crazy things over the years and I have traveled a fair bit around the kingdom. In my 35 plus visits to the country I always seem to end up in Pattaya. I took a few beautiful…
The story starts in 1997 when I stopped over in Bangkok. What an assault on the senses that was. I knew basically nothing of Thailand. Thailand back then was very different to it is today not as modern and efficient and definitely more pollution especially in Bangkok. I knew nothing about bars or go go…
I come from a small and poor country in the Balkans. Growing up in a stereotypical ‘rough’ neighborhood being raised by my poor single mum as a teenager learning a martial art was a bare minimum. I had to do it to keep myself safe even returning from school was a challenge. I wanted at…
Seems like these are never ending disaster stories many my own fault. After a couple more disasters lately I think I found a happy ending. I am now 75 still fit and healthy in all ways. I have been coming to Thailand from Australia since 2017 mostly motorcycle riding and other pursuits. Where I left…
I first visited Thailand in March 2015 with a friend who had visited Thailand two or three times over the years prior. We decided we would travel the country spending two or three days in every place that we ended up. We started our holiday in Pattaya and ended in Phuket taking in Koh Samui…