Thai Girls

The Oil Patch

“Man down in the bell, man down in the bell, this is not a drill”. I was woken out of my early morning weariness by the supervisors’ voice coming down the paging comms system. I looked up at the monitor, which had a live picture of the bell, and could only the back of Shane, …

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Dim By Name…

This story goes back to the days when I first came to live in Thailand, some eleven years ago now. I lived in a large three bedroom condo in Silom paid for by the company. I was not married at the time. ————————- Origami – the Japanese art of folding paper. She spent a minute …

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Money troubles

There is no such thing as free sex in Thailand or anywhere else in the world. You probably knew that already, but this tale emphasises the point that, here in this crazy, upside-down country, good girls can be more expensive than bad girls. I met Som in Ayutthaya in January last year. She was in …

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A 5 Baht Dance

  Where: Thailand, Phuket Island, Patong When: end of winter 2007 It is 10 pm now. Disorientated, dog-tired, overwhelmed by the suffocating humid heat that hit us in the face like the breath of a furious beast and with dry mouths from too much crappy airline food with coppery aftertaste, we are cruising Bangla Road …

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