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.
David wasn’t an old guy. He was only about 32 or 33 years old. He had a small apartment above a shop. He bought it and had a mortgage on it, but it wasn’t a huge mortgage. He had managed to save quite a bit. He was single. He had had one or two serious…
Your dream Thailand beach trip can quickly turn into a travel nightmare. There’s a lot that can go wrong at the beach in Thailand, but if you’re prepared, you can avoid all the hassle. Choose the Right Thailand Beach or Island So, the one mistake that could easily ruin your beach trip before it even…
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 bought my first condo in Thailand, more specifically in Bangkok, back in 2009. That first condo was the start of my transition from a UK-centric to a Thailand-centric investment portfolio. The first time I was in Thailand was 2 years before this. That’s when I met my wife who was from Thailand. She was…
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…