Sean Kjetil Nordbo Private Dancer, the book by Stephen Leather
(BOOK REVIEW) Private Dancer, written by well known author Stephen Leather, is not available for sale, but is available from this website (and the authors) as a free download! At…
Cost of Living in Pattaya
Some time ago, I came up with the theory that it would be possible to live comfortably in Pattaya for 1000 Baht per day. In order to test it, since…
Dive Sites of Thailand
Pattaya – Reputed to be the two best dive destinations in the area are a pair of shipwrecks: the Hardeep and the Bremen. But the Hardeep is numero uno. It…
Bangkok Downtown
Silom – Surawong – Sathon From end to end, these parallel streets are full of big blocks of multi-story buildings, housing many banks, finance firms, insurance companies, export-import houses, hotels,…
Buddhism in Thailand
Sukhothai Period Although animistic beliefs remained potent in Sukhothai, King Ramkhamhaeng and his successors were all devout Buddhist rulers who made merit on a large scale. The major cities of…
Elephantine Museum in Samut Prakarn
On the left side of the main highway towards Samut Prakarn is an awe-striking image of a three-headed elephant almost the size of a football field. The new structure, said…
Bangkok – Inside Out
This is a Book Review! Bangkok Inside Out was co-authored by Daniel Ziv (a seasoned peripathic) and Guy Sharett who has managed to sit still long enough to put down…
Build it and they will come in Thailand
Pattaya in Thailand has been in the throes of a building boom not seen anywhere on the planet since Harry Truman decided to level Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a matching…
The Death of Innocence by Will Patching
(BOOK REVIEW) The theme of this fast-paced novel is the murky world of wealthy men who have secret lives as child molesters. For most people the very thought of sexually…
Sex at Dawn
(BOOK REVIEW) Pattaya is, as anyone’s who’s either visited or lived here for more than five minutes well knows, a place with a reputation for providing pleasures of the flesh,…