Harking back to around 2007, and not the years way before then which some of the other guys are talking about and which sounds very interesting, and really does mirror the Joni Mitchell song, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" although not sure it was paradise back then.

Anyway off track – – so back onto it, whilst I was in Phuket town having lunch with my daughter in Black Canyon in Lotus's I came across a figure from those early days of mine, in the form of "Eric" of Soi Eric who was at the same place having lunch with his wife. So I stopped and chatted briefly and we reminisced about those good old days and he said he was pleased he was out of it now and that "they" have spoilt what was once a good Soi and it seemed like he didn't know that they were planning a nightclub/conglomeration in what was once Soi Eric!!

I know time moves on, but IMO Bangla life was a lot happier back in the early days of Soi Eric et al. or maybe I'm just getting old!?

Change, can’t stop it !

For good or bad…

It was either Soi Eric or Crocodile 2001 or so, I'm in the toilets in back having a wiz when a guy with LB comes in and he/she pull up the urinal next to me. LB extracts his unit he's having a pee, they are laughing when under my breath I say "ladyboy", make a clearing my throat noise and say it again as the guy looks at me and eyes sort of open.

Later, punter had hightailed it, I was sitting on a stool rapping with friend bar owner, LB walks by and gives me a solid kidney punch. Lucky I wasn't stabbed, shoulda kept my mouth shut, not my business......Bangla lessons learned.