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Bangkok Pattaya Samui 2001

The usual suspects + one

Bangkok Pattaya

Bangkok Pattaya Samui 2001 combined with an around the world trip including Cuba, Spain, Venezuela, Los Angeles & finally one trip to Sydney. From the left we have Tony Murphy, Mike Dowd, John Sinclair, Rung and yours truly.

Nana Plaza

Bangkok Pattaya

Her name is Phung but to me she will always be Cleopatra, after meeting in 2001 I would hook up with her each time I came to Bangkok over the next 6 or 7 years.

Phung aka Cleopatra

Bangkok Pattaya

I believe she now lives with a guy in Switzerland, one of the best Thai ladies I ever knew.

Nana Plaza

Bangkok Pattaya

Not much has changed in Nana Plaza over the years, except now in 2016 there are a lot more LadyBoys which does not suit me at all. 🙂

Nana Plaza

Bangkok Pattaya

John Sinclair aka Secrets & John Martin at Nana Plaza, these days Martin is called Pothole he is such a pest he needs to be avoided at all costs. 🙂

Bangkok Pattaya always a lovely Thai smile.

Bangkok Pattaya

Her name is Beer, you gotta love that. 🙂

Girl from the Busstop Soi 4 Nana

Bangkok Pattaya

Come to bed eyes, so I did. 🙂

Beautiful Thai smile

Bangkok Pattaya

December in Koh Samui, what a pretty lady.

Koh Samui bungalows

Bangkok Pattaya

I have fond memories of these bungalows.

Relaxing at Koh Samui

Bangkok Pattaya

A very sweet lady with Pothole in the background.

Chaweng beach Koh Samui

Bangkok Koh Samui sexy babes

As you can see the photo quality is not so good in the early days of digital cameras. See the difference in the photo below which was scanned from a print.

Dining on Chaweng beach Koh Samui

Bangkok Pattaya

One of the great pleasures of staying on Chaweng beach is having dinner on the beach and watching the sunset.

Nice butt in Koh Samui

Bangkok Pattaya

Jump forward to 2016 and see how Samui has changed.

Two more nice Thai girls

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Thailand certainly is a paradise for men.

New Years Eve in Pattaya

Bangkok Pattaya

We left Koh Samui & headed to Pattaya for some New Years Eve action, here I am with Pothole the village idiot. 🙂 Bangkok Pattaya continued to be a regular destination for me right up until October 2011 when I finally left Australia & retired in Thailand.                           

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Check out Koh Chang which is the 2nd largest Thai island after Phuket.

 

You may like to see my post on Krabi as well.

 

Counter only started June 16 2020.

Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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