Tag Archives: Pattaya

Toilet Marathon

June 12, 2017 – 12:29 pm

One early Sunday morning in 2007 the police blocked Pattaya’s major streets for the annual marathon. Runners started before dawn to escape the enervating powers of the tropical sun, otherwise the twenty-six miles would be shortened to a single kilometer. When I was in high school, I ran cross-country. 5K-10K. Not anymore. My friends and […]

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Circus Life in Thailand

February 12, 2017 – 12:12 am

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Un Fils De Charleroi

February 7, 2017 – 7:59 pm

My nephew Fabo is back in Pattaya. On his last trip I wobbled off the motorsai taxi. He lost a lot of teeth. Fabo is from Charleroi. People don” need much teeth in that city. Beer doesn’t acquire chewing. I wish I was in Pattaya with him. I like drinking beer too, but not Heiniken.

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Jan. 2, 2007 Going Home

January 2, 2017 – 3:41 am

It was still dark yesterday morning, when my wife terminated her holiday stay in Pattaya. She packed the car with my daughter, my adopted niece, her sister, my dog, and about three weeks of food whch would be comsumed during the five our journey to Ban Nok outside of Chai-nat. Nu was no longer angry. […]

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Russian Supermodel Copycats Pattaya Farangs

December 12, 2016 – 10:24 am

Pattaya probably leads the world for most suicides by tourists. Every week the city’s newspapers report another fatal plunge from a condo balcony. No one ever calls for the landlords to place a sticker on the railing saying, “Falls from this height could be dangerous.” because the suicides are usually considered to be losers, however […]

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