Songkhran: Thailand’s Joyful Water Festival
Songkhran is the Thai New Year, which is is sometimes referred to as the Thai Water Festival. It is much more than that though. Read on…
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Looking Behind the Smile
Discovering Lek’s Story in Daddy’s Hobby… If you’re looking for a thought-provoking read that offers a deep dive into a world many have heard of but few truly understand, Daddy’s Hobby is a book you won’t want to miss. It’s the first volume in the series Behind the Smile, and it tells the captivating story
Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones
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Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones is the first novel from this Welsh writer. It explores why so many girls work in Pattaya and how they fare
My Village Pub Crawl
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A Village Pub Crawl is often the highlight of my social life in the village. I don’t speak Thai well enough to hold a decent conversation, but I do like to say ‘Hello’ as I wander around the village.
Mushrooms in Thailand
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If you know any ex-pats who live in Thailand, you might sometimes hear them referring to themselves strangely as ‘mushrooms’…
Side-effects of COVID-19
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There have been several medical side-effects of COVID 19 noted, but I want to talk about social side-effects.
My Covid-19 Vaccination Experience In Thailand
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My wife has had Chinese Sinovacs, European AstraZeneca and American Pfizer injections, and that seems to me to give the best protection from Covid 19 you can get! I’ve had three Pfizers.
My Visa Application 2022
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Nobody likes to have to renew their visa, even if it does have to be done only once a year.
Daddy’s Hobby Previews
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This blog post contains Daddy’s Hobby Previews in all the languages I have available. BEHIND THE SMILE – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya” volume 1.
Thailand – Free Audiobooks
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Thailand vol 1 is a professionally narrated collection of 15 short stories by Owen Jones, who spent 12 years in his Thai wife’s remote northern village.
Daddy’s Hobby – Hinter ihrem Lächeln
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Lek ist als Älteste von vier Geschwistern in eine typische Familie von Reisbauern hineingeboren worden. Sie hatte nie erwartet, dass sich ihr Leben anders entwickeln würde als das ihrer Klassenkameradinnen in ihrem Dorf im Norden Thailands. Aber…
Behind The Smile – Daddy’s Hobby
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Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand six hundred kilometres north of Pattaya.
Fourth of July
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Fourth of July From the thirteenth of September, 2004 to the fourth of July, 2005, we slept on my mother-in-law’s floor in the small, rice-growing village where we live in northern Thailand, while we were waiting for our own house to be completed. However, after a party at a friend’s that finished after midnight on
Residence Permit for Spain (final part)
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Residence Permit for Spain (final part) We applied for my wife’s residence permit for Spain on February 14th. 2017, although we had been working on it for a year before that. When we left Thailand in May 2016, the Spanish Embassy had assured us that we had all the paperwork we needed for my wife
Lek – The Beginning – Review
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The Beginning Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya (volume 7) by Owen Jones Review by Barry Boy The Beginning is volume seven in the much-liked series Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya by Owen Jones. Volume One in the series began
Thai Catering Services in Fuengirola
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Travel Bloggers and Book-Sellers
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Our Last Night in Thailand
Our Last Night in Thailand was a strange affair. I was convinced that I would never see my lovely Thai in-laws again, but…