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Three Thailand trips 2009

Is Thailand fun? You bet it is. 🙂

Three Thailand trips

Three Thailand trips

 Three Thailand trips in February April and July. The best was certainly in July when my good friend Phil Thomson arrived with his 21 yo son Michael to introduce him to life in Thailand. Michael’s mother is Japanese and he speaks the language fluently. Being a young good looking guy the girls in the bar made quite a fuss of him.

The two girls above are Anne & Jaeb from the Cherry Bar.

This post focuses on the July trip with Phil & Michael Thomson.

Michael, Jan & Phil

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I think Dad is having more fun than Michael. 🙂

Yes here is proof Michael’s dad is a party animal

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Of course Dad had no fun at all. 🙂

Anne and Michael

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Anne was so pleased to find some young fresh meat she latched on for a few days.

Nana Plaza and everyone is happy.

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We found Muk in “The Office” off Soi 33.

Pizza in Soi 33

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Good Italian food here, about 200 meters along Soi 33 on the right.

I met this lovely lady in Soi 33

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Her name is Muk and she now works in the country at a 7 11 shop, we sometimes chat on Facebook.

Nana Plaza, game on.

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Michael is very happy to be introduced to Nana Plaza.

A rainy night in Soi 33

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Nice Ferrari outside the Office.

This cheeky lady is named Ice.

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I met Ice a couple of years ago when she was dancing in a club  in Nana Plaza, I try to catch up with her each time I come to Thailand.

Herbie and the Thomsons at the Mantra

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Herbie Pastor is a very interesting guy from Las Vegas who now lives in Pattaya. He has some terrific stories from his days of owning a casino there as well as a well known New Orleans strip club.

The Honey Pot in Soi 2

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This was one of my favorite drinking holes, air conditioned and great music. Sadly now in 2014 along with all the other Soi bars it has closed.

Another reason I liked the Honey Pot.

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I rest my case.

 While we are on the subject

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  I can never show too much of Jan, in my eyes she was the most gorgeous Thai girl I knew.

Did I hear you say you wanted more of Jan?

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Well so did I, more & more. 🙂

Near the Dusit hotel

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Now in 2016 the footpath around the rock wall has totally collapsed.

Dusit at North Pattaya

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  You can see the Cove under construction behind the Dusit Hotel

 The Grand Palace in Bangkok

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A must for anybody visiting Bangkok.

Manhattan’s steakhouse with Trevor.

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This was one of Pattaya’s best restaurants, sadly it closed it’s doors in 2014.

 

Cherry bar with Pothole and Greg Clee

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Greg Clee is a partner in a go go bar in Walking St Pattaya, Pothole aka John Martin is I a guy I have know for many years. 🙂 Three Thailand trips in 2009 was a lead up to me moving there from Australia in October 2011.                     

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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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