This story really starts in 2004 when I took my wife and four kids to Thailand and the tsunami hit. We ran up a hill, we were fine, but very shaken up. When we got back to England, my wife was a changed woman. Nothing was ever right, and we argued constantly until we decided…
The core problem is that it stopped feeling real. Pattaya built its reputation on this illusion cheap, fun, easy companionship with a hint of maybe she actually likes me. The illusion is getting harder to maintain. Even researchers have found that many women actively target foreign men as financial security strategies rather than for romance….
Number 1 and it is an obvious one. When guys are talking to bar girls: “I’m not married. I don’t have a girlfriend.” Okay, that’s kicked it off. Number 2 guys who go around telling everybody they’re rich when actually they don’t have anything. Or on the other flip side of the coin, you’ve got…
when I initially got this lump come up, being a little bit lazy, I went to the nearest hospital to me which is a very, very top hospital in Bangkok because I live near Nana BTS station right in the heart of Sukhumvit. And that’s just a convenient place to go. So I had the…
First of all, my age. I’m getting older now. I’m still physically fit as fit as I can be for my age. But, you know, I spent a lot of my younger years traveling the world. I worked for a hotel company. I’ve been all over the world, the Middle East, and the Far East….
In Hua Hin, for instance, one thing I’ve noticed that wasn’t here a while ago is the railway line that runs from Hua Hin railway station all the way up to Bangkok and beyond. There are actually concrete pylons that run side by side next to the railway lines. And I’ve just found out that…
Now, Mark was in a company that would move him around Asia, particularly places like Cambodia and the Philippines, Myanmar. It was computers, IT, that sort of thing. He’d never been to Thailand before. I don’t know why you’d think Thailand would have been quite high up on the list of destinations for that kind…
I’m going to tell you another true story from my days in Bangkok when I lived there. It’s another story about a Thai girl and a foreign man. The man was from the UK. No real names, as always we’ll call the lady Far, which is quite a common Thai girl’s name, and we’ll call…
The One That Got Away Most of the time, Thai bar girls are just playing games and nine times out of ten they aren’t serious. But once in a blue moon, you can meet one who is truly different and has her head screwed on. After I was let go from my job with a…