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If you see a bright yellow Hummer H1 off-road vehicle driving anywhere in Thailand, especially in or around Udon Thani, it is most likely blog reader Pieter Dirk Smit. His hobby is cars, cars and more cars. Read his story about how he developed this hobby further in Thailand and enjoys it a lot.
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Well, there she goes! Phetraa Phetraa on its way to the Netherlands, you were able to read a story about it yesterday. The flight is different than usual, but you can expect that in this time of corona crisis.
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A few days ago we had a story from Jose Sleegers with her heartfelt cry to go to Thailand as soon as possible. Today Phetraa Phetraa, who wants to stay in Thailand, but unfortunately for her, has to return to the Netherlands. She ponders below about what it is like in Thailand, what it will be like in the Netherlands and when she can come back to Thailand.
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Frans de Beer, who has lived in a house with his wife for many years in Nakhon Sawan, experienced something special in Thailand with a plumber. Frans wrote the following story about it.
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A blog reader, who calls himself Hendrik Jan de Tuinman, couldn't help but intervene when he took a look at the disastrous state of the garden around the swimming pool at his condo complex. He wrote a beautiful story about it in 2017 and we are happy to include it in our series.
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Every foreigner, who falls in love with a Thai beauty, has to deal with it at some point. At least, if the love is mutual and the relationship develops into a more or less serious relationship. When the lady starts talking about a visit to her village in Isaan to introduce the good man to the parents, you have to be careful. An important event for her, something for him to be amazed again about Isan life. Blog administrator Peter (formerly Khun) happened quite a few years ago, wrote a story about it, which fits nicely in our series.
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Today a story by Lung Lala, which will be recognizable to many. You are sitting somewhere, for example on a terrace and somehow someone catches your attention. You immediately have a certain impression of that person, but is that impression correct? Lung Lala wrote down his experience of such an encounter in 2016, which we found interesting enough to include in this series.
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About a week ago, Johnny BG wrote a nice story about the Tam Nak Thai restaurant and wondered if this restaurant has been forgotten or if there are people who still remember that restaurant. Christaan responded to this and sent us the following reminder.
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Blog reader Peter Lenaers has traveled extensively through Asian countries, but has now been living in the Isan village of Ban Na So in the province of Bueng Kan for 14 years. He previously told a story about his friend playing a prank on lottery numbers (see episode 56) and now comes with an anecdote about eating his breakfast
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In an earlier story in this series, blog reader and writer Dick Koger talked about his friend Dolf Ricks. Dick made many trips in Thailand with him in the eighties and nineties, about which he wrote stories for the Newsletter of the Dutch Association of Thailand in Pattaya. Today the story about a visit to Ban Muang in Yasaton.
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A loyal blog reader, who has been living in Laos for more than 10 years, is Jan Dekkers. He looks forward to the new stories on the blog every day. He also has a story, but wondered if he could submit it from Laos.
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In Thailand you often come across fortune tellers and... let's be honest, for just 100 baht you can get a glimpse into the future, who wouldn't want that? Have you ever tried it and…..did it work out?
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Today Flemish Michel dreams away with memories of how he received his first geography lessons as a "snotter", a wonderful story!
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After the story about Dolf Riks, this is the second time that Dick Koger speaks in the series “You experience all sorts of things in Thailand”. He experiences a Thai marriage in Isaan and wrote the following story about it:
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Leprosy? It is relatively uncommon in the world today, but it happened to blog reader Jan Si Thep and his wife here in Thailand. Read his story of this dire event, which also demonstrates the family's determination and willpower to overcome. All due respect! You'll experience it!
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If you drive somewhere in Thailand by car or motorbike - usually in a city - it can regularly happen that you pass a mobile barbecue, on which something is being roasted. If you're unlucky, you have to drive through a black cloud of smoke, which you not only smell, but also linger in the car and get into your clothes.
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You go to Thailand on holiday and meet a lady in a bar, with whom you have a drink and who then stays in your company for the entire holiday. And…, as Keespattaya says herself, one thing leads to another. A romance is born. How that continued and eventually came to an end, Keespattaya tells in the story below.