Reader-submitted Thailand stories covering first trips, nightlife, Pattaya experiences, relationships, expat life and successful marriages. Real experiences from visitors and long-time Thailand regulars.
I visited Phuket last October but never made it to Bangla Road as I had a broken leg and did not feel like walking that much. I fell in love with Thailand and plan on going back this October and spending some more time checking out a few different places. I recently broke up with…
I was 39 living in England and bored of life. I desperately wanted to do something different, to have a change, and that’s when I started looking at the possibility of working overseas. I had quite a good job in England. I was fortunate enough that my job was paid well enough that I could…
I am in a bit of a situation with a bar girl I met in Thailand, and it has crossed my mind whether I should take the plunge and marry her. Background and Life in the UK I’m in my fifties and from the UK. For the past 15 years, I’ve been with a woman,…
When I was flying out of Thailand about 5 years ago, knowing that I would never see the country I spent so many years of my life in ever again, it was initially a bitter pill to swallow. But I came to the understanding all too late, unfortunately, that I was never welcome in Thailand….
One big mistake. That’s how I would sum up my life up until this moment in time. A mistake. Not just one mistake, though, I suppose, but a multitude of different mistakes, one after the other, not even knowing at the time that they were mistakes until the culmination, which happened to me when I…
My first trip to Thailand was in 2016 when I was 35 years of age. I’m from Bury St Edmunds in England and left school at 16. Like many my age, I got married far too early. It was okay at first, but after the birth of my first child, my wife morphed into your…
Story One: The Engagement That Wasn’t Listening to Your Gut The year must have been 2012. I lived in South Australia. I had just broken up with my fiancée and was feeling quite shattered about it. I was 34 at the time. A slightly older workmate in his mid 40s encouraged me to pack up…
Story 1 The Reality of Family Responsibility Lessons from a Filipino Marriage I was married to a Filipina for 20 years, and I’m very familiar with the duties and expectations when marrying into a different culture. It seems that many stories show men being shocked at what is expected of them with their wife’s family…
Retirement was a thing I’d worked all my life for, but I found it was always just out of reach. I’m from England originally, and I started going to Thailand a very, very long time ago. Thailand became my yearly escape. It was a place where I could rewind after a really difficult year, and…