First Trip To Thailand My name is Jonathan and my story begins with my second trip to Thailand with my brother. I was a divorced teacher in California when my brother called me one day in October 2012. He told me he had already bought me a ticket to Thailand for November and that it…
If you have spent any amount of time in Thailand, you have probably noticed something that feels different. It is not the food, it is not the weather, and it is not even the language. It is the people. You will often meet someone here who is incredibly polite, speaks softly, smiles constantly, and almost…
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…