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**u2ZQGC6b** · 02-07-2007, 04:37 AM

My first impressions of Thailand were not good... My first experience was via a brief stop-over on a trip to Vietnam in 2002, on the way out no-one came to assist me off the plane (I use a wheelchair) and so only saw Thailand through through the aircraft window. On the return trip I was suffering from a bout of food poisoning and remember little else than being very ill in the rest room...

And so to my first proper visit in August/September 2004. I stayed in the Pattaya/Naklua/Jomtien area and first impressions were not good. I had had a bad flight out, my luggage missed the connection in Amsterdam, and I decided that Pattaya was the worst place on earth (something that hasn't changed). I had planed for a number of years that I would spend my 40th birthday scuba diving and wrtiting in Cambodia but when came to make the plans found it was the closed season so decided on Thailand instead.

Three weeks there and my impression of the country didn't improve much, however I did like the people and the food. And more immportantly in the first couple of days I me a wonderfull waitress who was to become my constant companion for the next month.

Three weeks down the line we relocated to Bangkok for my final week which I found more pleasant but didn't really think in normal curcumstances it would be somewhere I would wish to return to. But that waitress was ÍØºÅÇÃÃ³ and I decided my love for her was greater than my dislike for the Thailand I had experienced so return I did after three months.

On my second visit she took me to meet her family in Buriram province and that is when I fell in love with the country. Last month I made my third visit and whilst I had the worst time of my life (documented elsewhere) I also had a wonderful week living in a small village in Buriram as part of a Thai family (that of ÍØºÅÇÃÃ³ eldest sister).

So I think I was very lucky on that first visit, not only did I meet a lovelly lady with whom I have shared many wonderfull moments, but had I not have done I probably would never have returned and discovered that 'Paradise on Earth' that is Buriram province.

David

02-07-2007, 04:37 AM	#10
u2ZQGC6b Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 452 Senior Member	My first impressions of Thailand were not good... My first experience was via a brief stop-over on a trip to Vietnam in 2002, on the way out no-one came to assist me off the plane (I use a wheelchair) and so only saw Thailand through through the aircraft window. On the return trip I was suffering from a bout of food poisoning and remember little else than being very ill in the rest room... And so to my first proper visit in August/September 2004. I stayed in the Pattaya/Naklua/Jomtien area and first impressions were not good. I had had a bad flight out, my luggage missed the connection in Amsterdam, and I decided that Pattaya was the worst place on earth (something that hasn't changed). I had planed for a number of years that I would spend my 40th birthday scuba diving and wrtiting in Cambodia but when came to make the plans found it was the closed season so decided on Thailand instead. Three weeks there and my impression of the country didn't improve much, however I did like the people and the food. And more immportantly in the first couple of days I me a wonderfull waitress who was to become my constant companion for the next month. Three weeks down the line we relocated to Bangkok for my final week which I found more pleasant but didn't really think in normal curcumstances it would be somewhere I would wish to return to. But that waitress was ÍØºÅÇÃÃ³ and I decided my love for her was greater than my dislike for the Thailand I had experienced so return I did after three months. On my second visit she took me to meet her family in Buriram province and that is when I fell in love with the country. Last month I made my third visit and whilst I had the worst time of my life (documented elsewhere) I also had a wonderful week living in a small village in Buriram as part of a Thai family (that of ÍØºÅÇÃÃ³ eldest sister). So I think I was very lucky on that first visit, not only did I meet a lovelly lady with whom I have shared many wonderfull moments, but had I not have done I probably would never have returned and discovered that 'Paradise on Earth' that is Buriram province. David
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