If you’re looking for a way to describe me as a person before all this happened to me, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark if you called me green around the ears when it came to all things Thailand. My story starts when I was 42 years old. I was single. I had…

My friend Dave and I were in Bangkok, and we were going to Hua Hin. We are lazy, so we decided to get a taxi. I know the train and bus are a lot cheaper, so we went to reception at the hotel. They got us a taxi, and we negotiated a price of about…

The 26th of May 2011 was when the Thailand seed was firmly planted in my mind. And before I tell you why this happened, I bet nobody could guess the reason. I was 46 years old in 2011, admittedly feeling well past my prime. And that evening, I was out on a date with a…

I’m a 68 year old male from the UK and now fully retired. I was married for 35 years and about 10 years ago split up from my wife who divorced me. This was the best thing that happened to me although not my choice instigated by my wife, as divorces statistically are started by…

I enlisted in the military in 1966 and volunteered for Vietnam. I had what was called the “John Wayne syndrome” I wanted to go to war, fight, and be a hero. There is a saying in the military that they never give you what you want. Since I volunteered for Vietnam, they sent me to…

The first time I was in Thailand was in 2007. I did not think very much of it back then in some ways, but in others I loved it. That is the truth of it. I was posted there by my company to transition the office in Bangkok out of Thailand to Singapore, and I…

I should start by saying that I have always been someone who knew what he wanted in life. More importantly, I have always been someone who went out and made sure I got it. When I was younger, in my 20s and 30s, I built a successful business in property development back in the UK….

I think that I was having a midlife crisis. I was going on 45 and had recently been made redundant from work, and all I could think about was the feeling that I needed a new purpose, a new meaning, and a new calling in life. I dedicated my whole working life, ever since I…

To the guys who have shared their stories, I feel your pain. I am no different. We all took a leap that most people only fantasise about, but most people do not have the courage to make it. We went for it, but we did not succeed. In my view, the reason came down to…