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Is Pattaya More Than Its Seedy Reputation?

As a 60-something tourist explains, “All tourists spend money and get exactly what they want in return. I just happen to come to Pattaya to fuck.”

“Usually,” Bianca said, “Swiss people sit as far away from others as they can. The train is completely full now, so that’s really not possible.”

An old Middle Eastern woman named Rabeeha told me everything I needed to know about romantic writing when I met her in Amman, Jordan in 2010.

A humorous account of my June 18, 2010 flight on Spring Airways, China’s first (and, thankfully, only) low-cost carrier, from Xi’an to Shanghai.