Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
Yesterday was Halloween.
Pattaya celebrated the old Celtic festival of Samhain with a singularly Thai flavor. Bar girls dressed in skimpy dresses and go-go girls painted fake blood on their faces. Farangs drank more than normal nights. It’s a pagan holiday and nothing says pagan better than sex go-go girls beer and a devilish hang-over the […]
Train workers walked off the job this morning to protest the threatened privatization of the State Railways of Thailand (SRT). Service halts on the long lines to Chiang Mai, the South and Northeast forced travelers off the trains onto station platforms. The labor union said the work stoppage will continue until the Prime Minister withdraws the legislation to sell […]
The cold season has arrived in Thailand right before Loi Krathong. Thais are bundling up in the North and even Pattaya locals are complaining about the change in the weather. They grabbed their arms with a shiver. “Nao.”
“Cold? I’ll tell you about cold. When I was a kid, you had to put anti-freeze in your […]
The Golden Triangle has been a source of opium since the 1800s. Tribesmen in the mountains grew it for a cash crop as well as a source of comfort after a long day in the rice fields. The French controlled the overseas trade until the Commies took over in China. Mao had the opium dealers […]
The Thai word for humid is choom or cheun.
In French it’s lourde or heavy.
Either way the days in Pattaya have exorcised a sweaty demon from my flesh. This loss of water weight has my neighbors and mia noi remarking that I look a little thinner.
Down to 85 kilos and a BMI of 25.7
The very bottom […]
For the past three years Interpol had been seeking a pedophile who had brazenly been posting his Southeast Asia exploits with young boys on the web. The chickenhawk had hoped to safeguard his identity with a CGI mask over his face. Interpol deciphered the disguise and issued an arrest warrant for the 13th most wanted […]
Yesterday I watched the final game of the 2007 World Series at Donovan’s Sports Bar on 3rd Road. The only other person in the newly opened restaurant was the Thai waitress filing her nails. She had no interest in baseball and even less in a farang nursing a cappuccino. I was on my own, because […]
This monring 2bangkok.com posted an article from Travelling Board about the most dangerous roads in the world.
http://travellingboard.net/travel-guides/the-most-dangerous-roads-in-the-world/
The winner was the ‘Road of Death’ or North Yungas Road in in Bolivia.
The winding mountain ‘highway’ covers about 70 km. through the Bolivian Andes from La Paz to Coroico. Heavily traveled the route reaps from 100-200 souls every year. The […]
There are actually two Jomtien Beaches. The better known is the thin strand of sand bordered by the Jomtien Road running south from the police box for several kilometers, however another Jomtien Beach exists north of the police box. No jet skis or rumbling buses, since cars and motorcycles are banned from 8am to 6pm thus bestowing […]
I took a train to Yala City in 1994. My friend, Michel Fagot, was teaching English to teenagers and adults. The Frenchman spoke English like Pep Pee Le Phew, the cartoon skunk. His accent was better than the local teachers according to his Thai wife, who worked at a private school.
The head mistress was an old woman […]
