No bkkguy. Your black Benz will be of little use (perhaps even a hindrance) unless you show said guard your collection of portraits of George Washington, Queen Elizabeth or Europa.
No bkkguy. Your black Benz will be of little use (perhaps even a hindrance) unless you show said guard your collection of portraits of George Washington, Queen Elizabeth or Europa.
Ah Gerefan, the film is never as good as the book. And besides, the board will be littered with spoilers.
I have a Lao boyfriend, does that count ? We went to the go-go bars a few times, just to see the show. Can't be bothered nowadays, as drinking prices are simply not what I am prepared to pay.
You are now moving to Vientiane ? Wow much better idea then Chiang Mai. You will have to sort out the visa though, and remember doing a monthly visa run into Thailand might not be feasible, because you are now limited to only two overland exempt stamps in a calender year. Having said that, the Lao most likely still allow you to purchase a 30 day visa each time, so it might actually work, you'll have a bunch of entry refused stamps from Thailand this way
sglad (September 12th, 2017)
I would think "the boys" don't like gogo bars, since (i) they don't need to go there to see guys of their own age in speedos & (ii) there is always the risk of their farang friend finding a new boy.
Moving to Vientiane solves the gogo problem, since there aren't any.
I thought Laos had some reasonable rules for farang to get visas for business, or something. But could be mistaken.
As for heavily fortified border, well a lot of it is river & there are many boats around. I wouldn't want to cross it illegally, but it can hardly be like the iron curtain.
(iii) the more intelligent boys - especially the many who have been brought up by the country's education system to see Thailand as the "best" country in the world - will find it demeaning, shaming and an affront to their beliefs to see their countrymen openly bought and sold at the whim of capricious foreigners,
(iv) anyone who, like me, prefers to have a heterosexual (though accommodating) temporary holiday companion will know that a straight boy understandably finds boy go go bars simply boring.
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
For fuck sake ... now this Canadian nut job is going to move to Laos after begging for help and assurance that his upcoming move to Chiang Mai was a done deal, cut in stone, the end game, while at the same time going blinder and blinder by the minute, knowing full well that it's hard to see those pesky land mines strewn through the dark back alleys of Vientiane even when one is 20/20.
An amazing tour de force of utter bunkum (also known as 100% bullshit). H L Mencken would be all over this nonsense.
christianpfc (September 14th, 2017)