I Walked Away: An Expatriate’s Guide to Living Cheaply in Thailand by Michael Ziesing

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I Walked Away: An Expatriate’s Guide to Living Cheaply in Thailand by Michael Ziesing

Throbbing lights throwing primary coloured tones over passing revellers. Pulsating music gushing from bars and vibrating in stone like a million heartbeats vying to be heard. Glimpses through briefly opened doorways of a women jostling nakedly against each other on narrow stages. Skin brushing against skin. The smell of perfume and hair lacquer flooding bars that are starting to fill with customers. Entreating touts sometimes accompanied by sangthip-coke swilling bargirls. “Come and look inside.” It’s an intoxicating atmosphere even for those already drunk on it or suffering from expat hangovers. Nanaplaza was just starting to out-Patpong Patpong.
It had been threatening to do so for a while and now it was working.