After many years of wanting to visit China and Shanghai in particular I finally started the process of applying for a visa. This meant jumping through many hoops including an interview and significant expenses. However I managed to secure my visitor’s visa. Fast forward to March 2019 and I flew to Shanghai. I took a…

I have been to Thailand many times but I always say it takes at least three visits to learn the basics such as how to deal with bar girls avoid scams and know where to go and where not to go. By ‘where not to go’ I don’t just mean safety as Pattaya is relatively…

I planned a trip to Tokyo Bangkok and Pattaya. It was the worst trip I’ve ever had. I’ll skip the Tokyo leg and go straight into the Bangkok and Pattaya leg. I landed in Bangkok literally one week ago as I wrote this. My driver took me to my hotel on Sukhumvit Road. I checked…

I’d like to go back to 2010 when I had been single for two years after getting divorced. I went to work every day trudging along with my life having a few dates but none of them giving me any kind of spark. There were a couple of guys I worked with who were regular…

I stayed on Sukhumvit Soi. After spending my first day being a tourist I got myself ready to go out to Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy. I first walked around the plaza trying to spot the one I wanted to spend my time with. Unfortunately nothing really jumped out at me so I took a…

I am a teacher by trade starting my teaching career in 1999 when I was only 18. I taught for over six non consecutive years in the U.S. before getting sick of the lack of pay teaching in California. One night I had a dream about teaching in Japan. I got up in the middle…

I’m quite young compared to your average story hero. I’m now in my late 20s and I haven’t been to the Thailand bar scene before. I have never paid for girls directly in my life and I don’t drink much. I work out and I’m fit. I have a full head of hair there’s nothing…

I was born in Southampton Hampshire UK and lived my early nightlife in Southampton until I moved to Sydney in 1994. Over the last three decades I visited Bangkok many times for work conferences but usually it was a fly in get brainwashed with corporate Kool Aid and fly out certainly no time to relax…

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…