If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Sometime ago I went to a complex of temples in Bangkok. There was a religious festival going on. After having seen the sights, I went to an outdoors restaurant right outside one of the temples. I ended up chatting with [...]

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I went on a slight bender the other day. Usually, I don’t flirt with girls too much, when I go for the beer. But it so happened, I ended up on Soi Cowboy sitting in one of the outside bars. I did some people watching and spotted a few Ronald McBoyfriends, and what looked to [...]

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After doing the normal tourist thing in Thailand I did as many men do and I began to pine for meeting a nice, normal Thai girl.  But how was a tourist, who only visits Thailand a few times a year, supposed to find such an elusive girl?
I tried meeting girls online and then going out [...]

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Today’s blog is about the most embarrassing thing I ever remember happening to me.
Every story starts somewhere, and choosing the beginning is sometimes the most difficult part of telling a story. I think I’ll start mine on Saturday night to put it in context of a long and often unpleasant weekend.
On Saturday night I was [...]

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It’s the cool season in Bangkok. I know that because bargirls are shivering outside the bars as well as in. It’s about twenty four degrees centigrade and they’ve got goose bumps. My first night back in Bangkok and I’m welcomed with open legs as always at my favourite little bar on Soi Cowboy. Five girls [...]

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Let me echo the words of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, “If you don’t help to make democracy move forward, it will be the country’s downfall.”
These words first uttered in April of 2006 and repeated by the king several times since were aimed at the judiciary branch of the government.  King Bhumibol seems to be a wise [...]

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8 July 2008
Well, we’ve always known what the PAD was against; they’ve always been opposed to the government of the day if it was elected (but it did not oppose the government of Surayud which was appointed by the military).
It has always been difficult, though, to know quite what they stood for. IN 2006, [...]

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On pretty much any morning in Jomtien Beach, you can take an early stroll on the beach and find it carpeted with garbage. On Pattaya Beach, schools of dead fish and jellyfish have been washing up on shore for the past several weeks. Even seas off of Pattaya’s Near Islands are lime green and frothing [...]

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On winter nights at home in England, when the rain outside was horizontal, those of us who had been to Thailand would be cackling in corners at a local pub. Stories we’d each told a thousand times before, of various mis-adventures in The City of Angels, were all enjoyed again as though heard for [...]

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Okay so you’ve taken the Spot a Lady Boy Test and perhaps you didn’t score as highly as you thought you should have. What now? Avoid Thailand?
Fortunately, there are some signs to look for that can help keep you from accidently going home with a man packaged as a woman.
Here are the Top [...]

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