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The care home to which- if all goes well- Wendy will be conducting Terry is on the outskirts of Pattaya. Pattaya, just a name to me- so I looked it up.
Pattaya- like Brighton, like Eastbourne- started out as a fishing village. Then US military personnel started going there for R & R during the era of the Vietnam War and one thing led to another and now it's a huge city with a beautiful botanical garden, an enormous golden Buddha -in fact two enormous golden Buddhas- one of them an 18 metre high statue and the other incised into the side of a rocky hill- and- what mostly draws the crowds- the most rambunctious red light district in the world. The Thai government says Walking Street is entirely respectable and if local women happen to fall in love with western tourists that's their own affair. Apparently you have to keep a close eye on the ladyboys because a lot of them would pick your pocket.....
Pattaya- like Brighton, like Eastbourne- started out as a fishing village. Then US military personnel started going there for R & R during the era of the Vietnam War and one thing led to another and now it's a huge city with a beautiful botanical garden, an enormous golden Buddha -in fact two enormous golden Buddhas- one of them an 18 metre high statue and the other incised into the side of a rocky hill- and- what mostly draws the crowds- the most rambunctious red light district in the world. The Thai government says Walking Street is entirely respectable and if local women happen to fall in love with western tourists that's their own affair. Apparently you have to keep a close eye on the ladyboys because a lot of them would pick your pocket.....
