Does Your Thai Partner Enjoy Trips To Your Home Country?

[garro]

Does your Thai partner enjoy trips to your home country?

What does she/he like about it there?

What does he/she dislike?

[ZukiSuzuki]

Generaly educated internationaly aware people enjoy traveling overseas, learning about other cultures and people. Country bumkin types usally find it difficult and an awkward experience. Scratching around for a bowl of somtam because they refuse to try the local food.

[thomo]

OMG!!!

Ciao.

[sbk]

Nosy one, aren't you garro?

Just kidding, personally, I think its a valid question and for me, it matters that my husband enjoys my country.

He loves going there but doesn't love the price of the air tickets ($1500 each now) or the cost of living there. We earn baht so its difficult to come to terms with how much things cost while there. He doesn't like to go if he can't have a good time and buy the things he wants. So, he doesn't go as often as I do. But, he does love it.

Likes are the food (he loves to try everything and loves the variety of food there), the roads and the fact that people generally follow the rules of the road when driving.

Dislikes would mainly have to be cost.

Having lived in the US when we first got married and having been there often enough, he can appreciate who I am and where I come from, he understands me alot better by seeing what my life is like there. This has helped him to understand me and how I react and how I behave far better. It also has given him the ability to see his own country through a different set of eyes -- and is often disappointed by what he sees, I think.

[kmart]

Yes, too much really. I have to put her on a treadmill when we get back here, after Xmas & New Year over there.

[GuestHouse]

My wife loves the UK, but she also enjoyed Singapore and deeply misses Rome.

I'd list the things she likes but that would only lead to a bun fight with missfits desputing what is in the end only someone's opinion.

[Captain Chaos]

Generaly educated internationaly aware people enjoy traveling overseas, learning about other cultures and people. Country bumkin types usally find it difficult and an awkward experience. Scratching around for a bowl of somtam because they refuse to try the local food.

There's always one ...

[Captain Chaos]

Does your Thai partner enjoy trips to your home country?

YES

What does she/he like about it there?

LIKES: food, travelling around the place looking at exotic things like canal locks and sheep , pork scratchings, pub lunches, crimbo lights and being cold (if it's a winter trip)

What does he/she dislike?

DISLIKES: General levels of 'paeng maak', small North Sea shrimp do not make good Tom Yam apparently, arriving in summer 2006 in the middle of a 30 celsius plus heatwave

We're already planning summer hols 2008

Edited November 16, 2007 by Captain Chaos

[technocracy]

Generaly educated internationaly aware people enjoy traveling overseas, learning about other cultures and people. Country bumkin types usally find it difficult and an awkward experience. Scratching around for a bowl of somtam because they refuse to try the local food.

There's always one ...

Captain - my thoughts exactly.

The opinion of ZukiSuzuki can also be referred to 'Expats' who come to SE Asia then have to go 'scratching' around Tesco, Carrefour, Big C etc. buy their western food then whinging because they can't get the same brand they buy at home. I guess these would be commonly known as knuckledraggers.

Does your Thai partner enjoy trips to your home country?

Well my Lao partner spent 11 month with me in the UK . . she enjoyed it for the novelty and see new things but the weather was something she couldn't get used to and the fact that everything is inside - you cannot sit outside anywhere without freezing or getting rained on!

What does she/he like about it there?

Scenary . . . the organised approach to everything not the 'Lao Chaos theory'

What does he/she dislike?

Bars ('full of fat ugly rude people' as she puts it!), the weather, everything is sooo expensive, not easy buy clothes as she is diddy - UK size 6 often to big.

Edited November 16, 2007 by technocracy

[Momo8]

Trips back home?

Depends if we go back to Switzerland/France to visit my aunts/uncles/cousins where everyone is kissing him on the cheek and hugging him or back to Australia where he loves the beaches and the clean air.He's pretty adaptable my darling though,having lived abroad and knows more people than I do through business connections than I do.

Was funny though the first time we went back to Oz to see the look on his face when he tried Vegemite for the first time or the time he got dumped by a wave or in Paris when my aunt who has trouble fitting through doors pounced on him and kissed and hugged him lol he has a lot to put up with my culture.

Other than that he loves any kind of food (not the prices as someone else mentioned) and all things different.He won't swap living in HK or China though,this is the best place in the world.

[Jim's_a_Thai_Fox]

I envy you guys a lot... I'd love to be able to take my GF back to the UK for a bit - she's be shell shocked to be out of her safe, Thai enclosure, but she'd love it soon enough... air fare for two is the issue though (and getting enough time off work to make a real trip out of it)...

[nidge]

My girl worked in Bahrain for 6 years and enjoyed that but 5 days in the UK and she was almost dragging me to the airport to go home. Main complaint was the 'flavour free" food.

[mrtoad]

Does your Thai partner enjoy trips to your home country?

YES

What does she/he like about it there?

LIKES: food, travelling around the place looking at exotic things like canal locks and sheep , pork scratchings, pub lunches, crimbo lights and being cold (if it's a winter trip)

What does he/she dislike?

DISLIKES: General levels of 'paeng maak', small North Sea shrimp do not make good Tom Yam apparently, arriving in summer 2006 in the middle of a 30 celsius plus heatwave

We're already planning summer hols 2008

CC, funny you should mention the pork scratchings. MrsT has a thing for them, and when she was in the UK with me I ended up buying the whole card of them at the local wholesaler, something like 24 packets on it. She still asks my Mum to send over packets even to this day. As for the cold, she liked the snow, but not the wind chill. Also took a bit of a liking to the cider and roast dinners. She also enjoyed the Christmas festiviites and the countryside. In fact, if we went back to the UK, she would be more than happy living there again, more so than me.

Edited November 16, 2007 by mrtoad

[mrbojangles]

Generaly educated internationaly aware people enjoy traveling overseas, learning about other cultures and people. Country bumkin types usally find it difficult and an awkward experience. Scratching around for a bowl of somtam because they refuse to try the local food.

There's always one ...

Yep, unfortunately

As for my Mrs she loves going back to Thailand and now, she loves coming back to England even more. It's worrying cos my plans are to retire in Thailand and i'm just hoping she will still want to come back with me.

[garro]

Generaly educated internationaly aware people enjoy traveling overseas, learning about other cultures and people. Country bumkin types usally find it difficult and an awkward experience. Scratching around for a bowl of somtam because they refuse to try the local food.

There's always one ...

Yep, unfortunately

As for my Mrs she loves going back to Thailand and now, she loves coming back to England even more. It's worrying cos my plans are to retire in Thailand and i'm just hoping she will still want to come back with me.

Have you brought her to Ireland yet Mr bojangles?

I seem to remember you were trying to blag your way into getting an Irish passport.

Edited November 16, 2007 by garro

[TheEmperorOfTheNorth]

Mine is kind of 50-50 about it.. She loves to travel, but by now she doesn't want to visit my home country all the time. (And I completely agree with her It's boring as <deleted>, that's why I here after all..

She'd like to visit different places, Rome, Paris.. though in the current economic climate I think the USA is turning into a bit of a bargain.

[hullmonkey1]

Took my GF to the UK for a 6 month hol. She hated the cold, the boiled to death food, the sat night punch-ups in the city centre pubs, planning a BBQ and then seeing it piss down on the day ..but in the end she got used to it and nearly 7 years later with a wedding ring on her finger and a UK passport in her pocket she started to like it and was against coming back to live in thailand A year down the line she is happy with living in thailand again and visiting the UK once ayear

[Captain Chaos]

Does your Thai partner enjoy trips to your home country?

YES

What does she/he like about it there?

LIKES: food, travelling around the place looking at exotic things like canal locks and sheep , pork scratchings, pub lunches, crimbo lights and being cold (if it's a winter trip)

What does he/she dislike?

DISLIKES: General levels of 'paeng maak', small North Sea shrimp do not make good Tom Yam apparently, arriving in summer 2006 in the middle of a 30 celsius plus heatwave

We're already planning summer hols 2008

CC, funny you should mention the pork scratchings. MrsT has a thing for them, and when she was in the UK with me I ended up buying the whole card of them at the local wholesaler, something like 24 packets on it. She still asks my Mum to send over packets even to this day. As for the cold, she liked the snow, but not the wind chill. Also took a bit of a liking to the cider and roast dinners. She also enjoyed the Christmas festiviites and the countryside. In fact, if we went back to the UK, she would be more than happy living there again, more so than me.

A frequent argument in the Chaos household is whether pork scratchings are more 'aroi' than Thai style 'ket moo' .... you can probably guess how the voting splits down

[mrbojangles]

Generaly educated internationaly aware people enjoy traveling overseas, learning about other cultures and people. Country bumkin types usally find it difficult and an awkward experience. Scratching around for a bowl of somtam because they refuse to try the local food.

There's always one ...

Yep, unfortunately

As for my Mrs she loves going back to Thailand and now, she loves coming back to England even more. It's worrying cos my plans are to retire in Thailand and i'm just hoping she will still want to come back with me.

Have you brought her to Ireland yet Mr bojangles?

I seem to remember you were trying to blag your way into getting an Irish passport.

Haven't taken her to Ireland yet Garro but i was successful in blagging my Irish passport :D

[tingtong]

I think she generally enjoy to go there. everybody friendly to her, a little cooler weather is fun for a while, and she like some of the food.

but, doesnt take long to her to miss thai food, thai life, and of course thai tv. also, miss being home, as there we stay with my parents usually.

[bottleymike]

I can only speak for myself and my Thai wife.

We lived in england for three years after I married her. Then I unexpectedly got an offer for early retitement at 52. Previously I and my wife expected to live and work in England until I was at least 60.

I ripped their arms off for the offer and was living, retired in Thailand within two months.

I love it, whilst my wife would prefer to live in England.

it takes all sorts as they say.