Category Archives: Bangkok

Thailiban hunt Thai Valentine Lovers -2008

February 13, 2025 – 11:10 pm

Saudi Arabia banned Valentine’s Day as an anathema against the Wahabi sects strictures on love and romance. No flowers. No cards. No hearts. Or Else.   And ’or else’ in the Saudi Kingdom could earn punishments ranging from a stern lecture to a beheading depending on the temperment of the judges, who regard man and woman alone as a […]

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May 30 1992 – Bangkok – Journal

November 10, 2024 – 10:49 am

Two mornings ago I making a call at the overseas phone booth in the Malaysia Hotel. A young bearded man entered the lobby. We had last seen each other in Kathmandu 1990 after a trek to Lantang Glacier. Upon departure westward to Europe I had told Dice, if he was in Bangkok, then you should […]

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Bangkok 1928

April 23, 2024 – 8:11 am

Back in 2009 www.2bangkok.com put this 1928 French map of Bangkok online. The city has certainly changed considerably in the last century. No more klongs or trolleys or trees, but then the old are always saying, “You should have been here before.” As a young man I thought they were full of cow paddy, but […]

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Lobstah on Patpong – 1990s

February 1, 2024 – 11:10 am

Back in the 1990s I was in Bangkok s Patpong gogo zone. I was standing at the bar and heard a younger man order a beer. “Are you from Maine?” “Lewiston.” “Falmouth Foresides. We must be the largest gathering of Maine people in Asia.” We clinked beers and he shook his head, saying, “Those two […]

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Mona Lisa Massage Bangkok

July 17, 2023 – 2:41 am

Teenage boys in the early 70s were not supposed to like Joni Mitchell, but once I loved to France in 1982, I loved the line from FREE MAN IN PARIS. “I was a free man in Paris.” My freedom remained unfettered throughout the next two decades and while living in Thailand, I changed the lyrics […]

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