Well, it's been confirmed, I am not only still a hansum man, but at least two ladies addressed me as young man. After nearly a year away from Thailand I had begun to wonder, but now that I've returned, I can see my worrying was all for naught.
Of course when I hear "Hey young man, where you go?" I always look behind me, affect a bewildered look and say "What? Where is there a young man? I don't see any young man. You ting tong."
I'm a card like that.
I've also been a long-time lurker here, but never posted -- I'm more of an antisocial networker, I guess. But as I've drawn a lot of good info and advice over the years from this and other forums, mainly TLB, I figured it was time to pay it back -- or is that forward -- with a trip report. I used to live in Thailand once upon a time and have mongered much in Bangkok, Chiang
Mai and Hua Hin (props for Mr. BB for turning me onto this awesome laid-back beach town -- sort of the anti-Pattaya). But somehow never made it Pattaya.
Well, after some time at home I've returned to Southeast Asia, and before I settle down to work, I thought a holiday in Thailand was in order, and that perhaps it was time to see Sewage-on-Sea (I believe Jimbo of C&D's coined that bon mot).
After my first 24 hours or so here, it doesn't strike me as any worse than any other Thai town for its size, in terms of cleanliness, but then Pattaya must reign supreme on the cheese-and-sleaze factor. In other words, I think I like it.
My first evening I was pretty fagged (heh) as the Brits say, jet lagged and whatnot (I usually break up the flights over here, but I didn't this time -- ugh, never again). So I took a nap and then went out to reconnoiter a bit before coming back to my room to crash. Mostly just located several places I wanted to check out tonight and ensuing nights, getting the lay of the land and whatnot, but I did stop in at Koyo 7 and played several games of pool with the bodacious and bootylicious
Bell. I will definitely be heading back to bar fine her at some point soon; she is a sweet girl, good fun and easy on the eyes, if you like the bombshell type, and I do. I also like the petite/hormone titties type too -- variety is the spice of life and all that. But I should add that
Bell didn't even hint at a hard sell either the whole time we were hanging out playing pool -- not even when I went to leave because I was dead on my feet. This is a huge plus in my book.
I also stopped at Stringfellows on the way home, just before they closed, because even though I don't have a list, per se, the lovely Jen has always caught my eye in other's reports and the Stringfellow's thread/forum. Alas, she is back home in Laos visiting the peeps, doing a visa run or both -- the girl I spoke with didn't have the best English, and it's a bit loud in there. And there are many other lovely ladies in there, but man, some of them are queens of the hard sell.
Ann, for example, a lovely example of feminine pulchritude, who just wouldn't let it go -- she was playful about it, but still. I realize it's low season, and apparently a tough one at that, from what I hear, and further realize that this is their job and whatnot, so it doesn't really bother me too much, but for anyone new to this place who doesn't like the hard sell, well, consider yourself warned.
I'm afraid I don't have any pix yet, but I'll post some eventually -- funny, I've always been quite the shutterbug, but then I tend toward "making art," as high-falutin' as that sounds, and am pretty lazy about taking snapshops. Particularly when it means dragging a camera body and a couple of lenses and a flash around -- meh. But I picked up a Canon G12 recently and it's pretty cool; basically a DSLR with a fixed lens. I'm curious to see how it does with low-light portraits and whatnot.
So anyway, to all the regulars here, thanks again for all the good info over the years; hopefully this read will end up being mildly entertaining at the least. And if anyone who reads this is out and about in Pattaya right now, or Bankgok in a couple weeks -- there's a few ladies up there I have to get reaquainted with before I move on -- first round is on me; just let me know where to find you (and if it's Famous Bar, you might have to draw me a map). And any nooberts out there reading this, I hope you can glean some useful information from my forthcoming reporting.
Well, time for a nap prior to tonights festivities. Ta for now.
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