Poolside in Nong Bunmak District, once a dream and now a reality !

[scoooooby]

I started the L.O.S. visits some 12 years ago with a hastily booked solo flight to BKK after too many beers on a winters night in Blighty. Was fed up with the miserable weather and the depression upon everyone around me. Seems like life in the UK is a dream of a 2 week summer vacation and the rest is a blur of stressing about time, mortgages, work, friends/family and the onslaught of increased cost of living due to a crazy Government providing ridiculous social benefits for the bus loads of Eastern Europeans that turn up every hour.....oh, and of course that dreaded CSA !!!!!

Well anyway, I booked the flight, took some forum advice on where to visit/stay and had that first 2 weeks of what could only be described as heaven ! Bangkok was a blur of crazy shopping, traffic, bars and wow there is a reason why everyone told me to leave all my inhibition's at home!!!!...One night in Nana plaza and my head was spinning!....Spent a couple of nights in BKK then off to Phuket for a week, great beaches, lots of sun and Bangla Road haha....travelled back to BKK and someone told me I should visit Pattaya....what was this place....had a day there before I left and it was like Blackpool on acid !

What started out as a lone trip turned into 2/3 visits a year...just saving in UK to spend my cash in Thailand visiting Islands and haemorrhaging cash in Pattaya, as you do... Took a few years and a painful experience of owning a Pattaya Bar to focus on getting to see the real Thailand.... A few years later and have the house in Nong Bunmak District.....A great solid house (avoided the wooden hut scenario), plenty of land and a fantastic pool....was a dream 10 years ago and now a reality....just need to get some finances sorted and it will be a full time dream....

Returning in December for most of the month....can enjoy the Thai sun and relaxed culture and avoid the UK weather and western commercial Christmas season !.....YIPPEEEE....

If there is anyone else in the area during this time please shout and we can have our own mini festive celebration over a cool beer or a whisky and think of all those poor sods stuck at home moaning about western life !

E N J O Y :-)

[Boo]

oh, and of course that dreaded CSA !!!!!

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[scoooooby]

oh, and of course that dreaded CSA !!!!!

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Child Support Agency ! :-(