Tag Archives: Pattaya

Loy Krathong 2000

November 15, 2024 – 8:06 pm

Loy Krathong 2001 I spent the festival of light with the worst girlfriend of Pattaya. Three months earlier Mam and I met at a bar. I only had another week in Thailand. My next stop was Kathmandu. In bed Maam said sadly, “Why you go mountains, when you can climb me?” There were a thousands […]

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Loy Krathong 2000

November 15, 2024 – 5:52 am

Loy Krathong 2000 I spent the festival of light with the worst girlfriend of Pattaya. Three months ago I met Mam and at a bar on Soi 3. I only had another week in Thailand. My next stop was Kathmandu. The Himalayas. As we lay in bed Maam said sadly, “Why you go mountains, when […]

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The Missing Of Loy Krathong

November 15, 2024 – 1:40 am

Written 2013 The most beautiful holidays in the world are the Hindu Diwali and Thailand’s Loy Krathong. These festivals of light celebrate the full moon night of the twelfth lunar month. I have celebrated Diwali in Lhasa Tibet with the Indian cooks of the Snow Dragon Hotel and Loy Krathong with my wives and children. […]

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Berlin Wall a la Pattaya

October 22, 2024 – 7:51 am

The Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989. Several years ago a German expat in Pattaya tried to recreate one of many escape attempts over the infamous barrier between East and West by trying to evade police by leaping over a concrete wall topped by barbed wire in a state of nakedness. Stasi Police would […]

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THE PIGPEN A GO GO by Peter Nolan Smith

September 11, 2024 – 1:34 pm

Life is the sum of a person’s experiences. Work and family dominate the sculpting of a soul. Days are defined by routine and years by the seasons and weather. En masse we are the same, but different thanks to our participation in special events liberating our souls from the shackles of perpetual monotony. Woodstock lasted […]

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