It was sweet, oh so sweet. Going on a holiday and being paid for it. That`s how life should be.
Thailand, a land full of contradictions, 9 star resorts and as neighbour a shed fabricated out of garbage. A family town in daylight that transforms by night into a place where even a priest become a hunter or pray of the beautiful Thai ladies or lady boys. It`s a place where a single man lays on the beach in the day and burn wounds been taken care of during the nightly hours. The place to celebrate my delayed birthday as a single man. How the path of life change. One moment you are making plans to extend the family, and the next day you are in the middle of an ex(r)otic nightlife, suppressing your midlife crisis.
Thailand, a land full of contradictions, 9 star resorts and as neighbour a shed fabricated out of garbage. A family town in daylight that transforms by night into a place where even a priest become a hunter or pray of the beautiful Thai ladies or lady boys. It`s a place where a single man lays on the beach in the day and burn wounds been taken care of during the nightly hours. The place to celebrate my delayed birthday as a single man. How the path of life change. One moment you are making plans to extend the family, and the next day you are in the middle of an ex(r)otic nightlife, suppressing your midlife crisis.
Acting as a young boy, i went canooing around the 1253 little islands around the mainland, see the famous "man with the golden gun" island. Going on ATV (4wd scooter)tour in the green wilderness, doing rafting in the Thai jungle, with as result that the next day you are confronted with the real age of your muscles. But no worries, they have thought about that. The Thai massage ladies have developed a second sense to pick out the rafting causalities. Picking them out the crowd and offering them a massage. And who would refuse when you are struggling to getting around and in mind the prospect of the nightlife that still has to come.
Night time, where the dead town turns in a wild turbulent life. Where were all the people hiding themselves during the day. I still don`t have a clue.
It`s pretty exhausted exploring the late hours, being hold up by every tailor man , who wants to have a chat and convince you should wear a suite, that he could make for you. Every restaurant offering you a meal . Walking souvenir shops who trying to sell `the made in china `useless accessories . From every bar beautiful ladies calling you to have a drink or a challenging game.
So after one hour walking about 24 metres, you are happy that you didn`t refuse the Thai massage . So you are ready to take the next metres without a problem.
But after a while you get thirsty, so after 169 times refusing the bar ladies, it`s time to say yes.
Dragged into the bar , you order your first drink for you and the lady that managed to get you in the bar. Having a chat in very prehistoric English with support of strange sign or body languages they managed you to play little bar games, what extend your time in the bar. Games like 4 on a road, domino, `loser pays a drink` games,etc. And as an ignorant tourist you win the first games, but than you suddenly start loosing from the daily trained lady. Hurt in your male pride , you play again, and again still hoping you`ll finally win a game. Frustrated , you take a run out of the bar. Time to walk another 5 metres, ending up , playing another game . This time you managed to play with 5 ladies at a time, building all kind of weird constructions with those little wooden blocks. With new energy, 1 to 5 changes you have to pay, thinking about winning my drinks back. You devoted yourself to the new game. Only one little detail, you lose, you pay the participants a drink, you win you receive one drink. No worries, 1 to 5, i can`t be that bad in the game. I never saw constructions like this before, ignoring gravity and insulting every physical law. (normally one game exist about 50 blocks i think, can`t remember the name of the game, so if somebody knows , but the bar use like 4 individual games to play one big game).
There goes my male pride again, so your are ending up in the early mornings,(maybe one of the reasons why there is nobody around during daylights) provided the half bar with free drinks for the night and hoping for a revenge the next day.
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