I had just arrived into Bangkok one evening and after checking into the hotel, showering, and grabbing a bite I went out to grab a few cold ones before closing time. I wandered into a place off of Sukhumvit past Asoke but I can’t remember the name nor have I ever been able to find …
On my last trip to Bangkok I had gone and run some early morning errands and was on my way back to my hotel on Soi 11. It was, as usual, hot as hell out and by the time I had made it up around Hillary II Bar I didn’t need much of an excuse …
Je suis de retour à Phuket. Nous sommes le 11 novembre. Ce matin le ciel est voilé, la température ne dépasse pas un très raisonnable 25°C et il y a une petite brise qui fait bruisser les palmes des cocotiers juste à côté. La saison touristique commence tout juste et l’ambiance est bien plus détendue …
“Eh ! Toi ! Le Farang [charabia incompréhensible] boum boum crac-crac [charabia incompréhensible]…” hurle une voix éraillée quelque part sur ma gauche. Je ne réalise pas immédiatement que ces cris me sont adressés mais je tourne néanmoins la tête de façon automatique dans la direction d’où ils proviennent. Dans mon champ de vision au premier plan je …
Sometimes when I am out at a farang party, which includes lots of Thai women but no Thai men, I feel undesirable, invisible, and at times just like one of the guys. Most farang men will not attempt to strike up a conversation or even glance my way because they already have a Thai woman …
BARGIRLS’ MOBILE PHONES: Have you ever met a bargirl whose phone does not have Bluetooth, email, digital camera, WAP, GSM, HSCSD, GPRS, SyncML, J2ME, MMS and a whole lot more unintelligible acronyms? Neither have I. It always puzzles me why anyone financing an extended family in Isaan, various unwell buffaloes and a Thai boyfriend would …
I was blessed with my dad’s sense of humour – “you’d laugh if your bum was on fire” – my mum would snarl at him, in times of anger and frustration. Perhaps because of this I have found travelling in Asia a wonderful source of hilarity. However at times, it has been a double edged …
THE PISS ARTISTS: Happily, they are a dying breed, but all farangs will have come across them in go-go bar toilets. A Thai male lies in wait for the unwary pisser, armed with hot towels and debatable massage skills. It happened to me in Rainbow 1 in Nana Plaza recently. As I aimed my appendage …
THAI COUPLES: I can still remember the sense of shock I felt at seeing a Thai couple walking hand in hand for the first time. It was my third visit to Thailand and I had never witnessed this phenomenon before. On reflection, there is absolutely no reason why people of the same race, nationality, age, …
Expensive plane tickets to Thailand are becoming something from the past. In the past years more and more Low Cost and Budget Airlines are expanding their route to many destination in Asia and Australia. Nok Air is a Thai Low Cost Budget Airline just opened the first international daily flights connecting Bangalore (India) with Bangkok …
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