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Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones

Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones is the first novel from this Welsh writer. It explores why so many girls work in Pattaya and how they fare

My Village Pub Crawl

A Village Pub Crawl is often the highlight of my social life in the village. I don’t speak Thai well enough to hold a decent conversation, but I do like to say ‘Hello’ as I wander around the village.

Mushrooms in Thailand

If you know any ex-pats who live in Thailand, you might sometimes hear them referring to themselves strangely as ‘mushrooms’…

Side-effects of COVID-19

There have been several medical side-effects of COVID 19 noted, but I want to talk about social side-effects.

My Covid-19 Vaccination Experience In Thailand

My wife has had Chinese Sinovacs, European AstraZeneca and American Pfizer injections, and that seems to me to give the best protection from Covid 19 you can get! I’ve had three Pfizers.

My Visa Application 2022

Nobody likes to have to renew their visa, even if it does have to be done only once a year.

Daddy’s Hobby Previews

This blog post contains Daddy’s Hobby Previews in all the languages I have available. BEHIND THE SMILE – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya” volume 1.

Daddy's Hobby Previews in all the languages I have available. BEHIND THE SMILE - The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya

Daddy’s Hobby – Hinter ihrem Lächeln

Lek ist als Älteste von vier Geschwistern in eine typische Familie von Reisbauern hineingeboren worden. Sie hatte nie erwartet, dass sich ihr Leben anders entwickeln würde als das ihrer Klassenkameradinnen in ihrem Dorf im Norden Thailands. Aber…

Behind The Smile – Daddy’s Hobby

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand six hundred kilometres north of Pattaya.

Fourth of July

Fourth of July

Fourth of July From the thirteenth of September, 2004 to the fourth of July, 2005, we slept on my mother-in-law’s floor in the small, rice-growing village where we live in northern Thailand, while we were waiting for our own house to be completed. However, after a party at a friend’s that finished after midnight on …

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Residence Permit for Spain (final part)

Residence Permit for Spain (final part)

Residence Permit for Spain (final part) We applied for my wife’s residence permit for Spain on February 14th. 2017, although we had been working on it for a year before that. When we left Thailand in May 2016, the Spanish Embassy had assured us that we had all the paperwork we needed for my wife …

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The Beginning - volume 7 in the series Behind The Smile

Lek – The Beginning – Review

The Beginning Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya (volume 7) by Owen Jones Review by Barry Boy The Beginning is volume seven in the much-liked series Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya by Owen Jones. Volume One in the series began …

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