Welcome to the Thailand stories category of the site. Here you will find all different types of stories from the Land of Smiles.
From newbies first experiences in the Thailand night life, the old timers tales from Pattaya and even successful marriage stories with Thai women.
A Holiday That Changed Everything One day I was living my normal life without any expectations that I was going to do anything different. Yet when I went on holiday to Thailand back in the year 2008, that’s when everything completely changed for me. If I think about it properly, I don’t think I should…
I never really thought it would come to this, but here I am anyway. Thailand, a country that I loved so much, became a country that I despised more than anywhere else. I guess that’s why I’m writing this in the first place. But while I went and fell in love with the country or…
I arrived in Thailand just after the end of the global pandemic, surviving on YouTube videos and the dream of a different life. I knew that I needed to do something different. I’d worked all my life and had just turned 52. And while I didn’t have enough money to retire, I thought I’d have…
I had been visiting Thailand every year since I was 10 years old. My mom and dad got divorced and my dad remarried to a Thai lady and moved to Thailand which meant I visited him every year. The first time I visited Thailand, it was far removed from what I was used to and…
My first trip to Thailand cost me my family. I wasn’t going on holiday. I wasn’t even going for pleasure. I was in business with one of my close friends. We just started it 6 months prior and we were looking for a distributor of certain products. This sent us on a whirlwind trip to…
I was from the United Kingdom and I moved to Thailand in 2016. I spent the years before that traveling around different countries in Southeast Asia. I wanted to find the one that I liked the most. I think that’s what many people do when you’re looking to retire in a different country. I thought…
I think the first thing I need to say is that I really did like Thailand. I enjoyed visiting and spending my time there and I thought I would want to go again until I could finally retire. I’ve not yet made my mind up if I want to retire to Thailand or if I…
You’d probably refer to me as a two-week millionaire. The guy that works all year, saves as hard as he can, and flies to Thailand with a lot of money in his pocket and a lot of steam to get off his chest. I’d be happy if he referred to me as that, but that’s…
You will always come last in Thailand. You will always be an outsider looking in on the periphery of society. And it took me many years of living in Thailand to come to this understanding. In the West, we’re told to accept people into our countries for who they are. Different cultures, different ways of…