Centre Hotel Pattaya

... enjoy doing nothing.

My original plan was to go to the south, until I realized that unlike the rest of the country, which is having a cooler dry season, the weather in the southern part of Thailand is quite rainy. So I went east, to a town south of Pattaya, where a mile-long beach is found; a very nice aircon room just 50 yards from the beach costs less than $20; a whole day rental of a set of umbrella-beach chair on the beach ...

... was much clearer than where I live but there was still trash in it.  We also witnessed a baptism to and older Chinese woman. which was pretty cool. One note about the beach: I will never understand why Thai's wear their clothes swimming and not a bathing suit.

After our relaxing we got back on the ferry to the mainland to catch a bus that would bring us to Pattaya. Unfortunately all the space on the outside of the boat was occupied so Katie and ...

... in my head while we dash out of Krung Thep, motorbike taxis flash by the cab`s window wringling in between nooks and criches of a mad antheap of human life enclosed in mindless iron bodies invented by mankind to move but hopelessly lost in between the likewise.

From the perspective of my drunk mind I experience it all feeling out of touch with my bearings, traffic lights lighting up the taxi`s insides rattling me back from my Chang beer induced slumber where ...

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We left the next day for 1 night in Bangkok before flying home , When we get home we will sort out what all we have seen & been told the last 2 weeks but feel as a church to look after girls rescued from sexual exploitation & trafficking.

... The temple has some aspects of Indian and Chinese Buddhism as well as Thai Buddhism. There is a statue of the bearded ascetic Buddha, a statue of the fat Chinese Buddha (not the actual historical Buddha, contrary to some peoples belief) and a Taoist shrine. There is also a gigantic gold Buddha statue at the top of the stairs, a neat site to take in. We then headed back into town and went to the main temple where the celebrations were taking place. It ...

... to see the comings and goings, but why take your 6 year old kid with you? Admittedly you cannot see any nudity from the street, but if you are staring at lecherous old men with their arms around 19 year old girls then so is your son or daughter. Nice life lesson there, well thought through. Now, this is a year off to find myself. So the big question: should I get a tattoo? It feels like the right thing to do, very mid-life crisis. But I have ...

... round their neck and a cowboy hat! After the night wore on they started lassooeing the customers with ropes and hauling the unlucky ones onstage to have their tops taken off then smothered in baby oil! needless to say i was not intent on being captured and stayed vigilant all evening in case i got lassooed by a 'cowboy', i did get this one 'cowboy' who tried a couple of times to ensnare me but i managed to duck and wriggle out of being snared by the rope. All night i was stalked ...

... haben! Heute Fortsetzung der Reise bei Dauerregen nach Pattaya. XXXXX While my stay in Sihanoukville I didn't see and do very much as it was sometimes strong raining and I had fever from a bad stomach. So I took the chance of the yesterday's sunny wheather to get finally to Thailand on dry roads. The road up to Koh Kong is still under construction but most of it was good for travelling ...

... because it was too much to handle (like the man with hearing aid nibbling on some pretty young thing) but mostly because it just felt so icky-sticky-wrong. One time I made eye contact with one of the middle-agers who gave me the knowing nod, as if to say "Good going, mate. Have a great time!" Yeesh. I told Eva often how I felt, but she retained a truly remarkable outlook. "Don't you care that everyone here thinks you're a prostitute?" I asked her ...

... stay open until 2am. I went to the Ploy Thalay bar after Hans retired and had a few drinks with some guys from Birmingham. 30th January Managed to completely ignore the construction workers and have a good lie in. Construction here is a little low tech and hence their is less noisy machinery. One thing struck me and that was half of the construction workers were women covered in muck. Spent most of the day lounging on a deckchair and swimming in the sea. Samet's Saikeaw beach ...