Tag Archives: Pattaya

MENAGE A TROIS A LA THAI by Peter Nolan Smith

September 6, 2014 – 2:15 pm

Western press continually brattles on how Muslim suicide bombers are rewarded for their ultimate sacrifice with seventy-seven virgins, even though virgins are not renown for their sexual prowess and this generous gift for their ultimate sacrifice has seemed more a curse to me, then again most western men fantasize about a dirty weekend in a […]

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Leaving Pattaya The Hard Way

September 4, 2014 – 2:14 pm

The NY Times regularly published a list of why Americans die. The leading causes of fatality come as no surprise; heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, in that order. Almost all of them are related to either environment, bad food, obesity, or a cocktail of the three. You are […]

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HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S MY BROTHER by the Hollies

August 21, 2014 – 7:35 pm

That 1960s Hollies hit gets plenty of play in Pattaya, only bargirls have changed to words to suit their need for subterfuge. “He not boyfriend. He my brother.” The tenacles of an extended Thai family are more tangled than a cluster of fornicating rattlesnakes. The second cousin of a third aunt from your sister’s second marriage is […]

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Pattaya Walking Street 1987

June 21, 2014 – 8:21 pm

I wish I had a time machine to go back to 1987. I was living in New York doing blow. I can’t even remember if I was working. Walking Street would have been so much fun. The one-way ticket to Thailand couldn’t have cost more than $600, but I got it together by 1990. I […]

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No More Mr. Nice Guy

May 20, 2014 – 11:56 am

The short-time bars of Soi 6 and go-go bars of Walking Street are not the only tourist attractions of Pattaya. Farangs and Thais travel down from Bangkok to lounge on the beach, dine at the thousands of restaurants, shop at street markets, and take in the sights. Several years ago Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks promoted its […]

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