This is my story of my first trip to the Land of Smiles. A bit of a backstory: my friends and I have been talking about going to Thailand for 5 years, but due to various reasons, it never happened year on year. I was hoping to round up the guys last year for my…
There isn’t a definitive answer to that question because Thailand is no different to any other country. I think what I’ll do first is I’ll tell you a couple of mistakes that foreigners make when they go to Thailand. A lot of them will go on vacation for a couple of weeks, they’ll hit the…
Northern Thailand, where the company I was heading to is located. This meant I had to spend 2 days in Bangkok before flying back to Zambia. Before embarking on this trip, I read a lot about Thailand and, being a curious person, I decided to use the opportunity to explore Bangkok. The city is world-famous…
I am a 53-year-old man from London. My story begins in February 2016. A couple of friends and I were sitting in a pub in London, and one of the boys mentioned that a friend of ours would be out in Pattaya in April did I fancy it? Well, my mother had not long passed…
After years of watching videos and reading forums about Thailand, I finally made the trip myself. I had been working long hours in Dallas, saving up and dreaming of warm nights, cold beers, and the kind of freedom I hadn’t felt since my 20s. Bangkok was the first stop. I had booked 10 nights at…
My first trip to Thailand began April 12th, 2023 in other words, the beginning of the first full blown Songkran Water Festival in Bangkok since before COVID 19. I’m an American who was in his early 60s, retired, and I’ve never visited Southeast Asia. I was planning some of the hotel and city schedule destinations…
I had been going to Thailand for many years before I finally made the decision to move there after I was offered a teaching job on my last visit. The job offer was the final push I needed, as far as I can remember I wanted to get out of my own country, so I…
Although I did not lose a lot of money, mainly because I didn’t have any, I still had a wild ride and I think a story worth telling. I ended up in a relationship with a Thai bar girl that was just filled with nightmare after nightmare, a lot of jealousy, anger and emotional wreckage….
The bar was empty. It was empty. I thought it must have always been empty, and that’s why I went in in the first place. If I saw loads of guys in there, there would have been no chance that I would have bothered going inside. I wasn’t very much of a people person. In…