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.
As far as the Thais are concerned that is not so much a holiday but a time to catch up with mother and the family renew driver’s licenses Thai passport transfer blocks of land vehicles etc. into their names that had been purchased by mother with the money the wife saved up and paid for…
It was COVID and they had just opened the Phuket Sandbox which was a great relief for me because I knew I did not have to do quarantine. And at this time Bangkok had been locked down meaning I would have quarantined into a lockdown. I’d been working hard all through COVID I was very…
My name is John and I am currently living in Japan for the last 6 years. After 6 years in Japan I came to a fork in the road in my life. I was not happy with my work in Japan and I broke up with a Japanese girlfriend of three years the year prior….
From a Factory Job to a First Thailand Adventure The place I was working at hired a new guy named John. John was a little older than me but he began telling me stories about Thailand. I’ve always wanted to travel but never enough to actually start saving up. After talking to John everything changed….
Story 1 Falling for a Professional My story begins in the height of the pandemic September 2021. As an American citizen our travel options were limited to Mexico or Thailand. I have visited Bangkok a few times before and it seemed like a much better option. I opted for the Sandbox scheme that let you…
We have traveled extensively in Africa Asia the Middle East as well as Europe. Often we’re assumed to be an old gay couple. This assumption is okay in Europe and can actually get you special treatment but in some countries not so much. Just before COVID we decided to go to Cambodia and explore Angkor…
This is a story from a few years ago. When I was 26 years old I’m Scandinavian I had decided to go on a kite surfing week long course about 30 kilometers from Hua Hin in a rural area. This was my first time in Thailand and from the moment I set foot outside the…
A bit of background I’m in my early 30s and have been traveling to Thailand since 2015. This is going to be two stories packed into one starting in the Philippines and the second part is kind of related to it happening in Thailand. In 2018 I was on my regular summer trip to Bangkok…
Way back in the mid 1980s I was going to college in the San Francisco Bay Area and I had to work a couple of part time jobs to pay for it. One of my jobs was at a local cable TV company in a town south of San Francisco. I worked with a small…