View From The Bar

A collection of Blogs and Stories from Thailand

The Red Lights Of Bangkok

30 Sep 2018

The great city of Bangkok has three western oriented red light districts: Soi Cowboy, Nana Plaza, and Patpong. Whilst all three have some similarities, they all

Red-light Morning to Night: Patpong

9 Sep 2018

Hey there. I’m Seven. I live the dream in case you can’t. This is the first in yet another series I’m doing called “Red-light Morning to

Finding a Wife or Girlfriend?

2 Sep 2018

10 Top 10: Finding a Wife (1-5) or Girlfriend (6-10) Behold the next installment of Seven’s 10 Top 10. It’s a doozy. So, as you may

The Red – Light is a puzzle

22 Jul 2018

And every girl is a piece When Electric Blue closed in Patpong and became The Steakhouse Co., it sent shockwaves through the red-light. Girls who had

The unbearable politeness of being

17 Jul 2018

I think the British, for the most part, believe they always have to be. Canadians actually enjoy it, even when they’re being duplicitous pricks. Aussies take

Confessions of a Red-Light Addict

8 Jul 2018

Part 3: Nana as Methadone It’s 7:40 on a Monday night. It’s pissing down rain. I’m having an argument with myself in the mirror…..”Yeah, I know

A Bar Girl Intervention

21 Jun 2018

When should you conduct an intervention for a bar girl? I mean, their job consists of drinking and dancing for a living. Can you really have

Where to Take a girl in Bangkok

11 Jun 2018

Bangkok can be a uniquely romantic and intoxicating city when you get here you can becomeoverwhelmed with the choices at your feet. If you’re already planning

Cheating on a bar girl

11 Jun 2018

2 Wrongs — Cheating on a Bar Girl I know what you’re thinking. A bar girl is someone you cheat with, not on. But that’s because you’re not

The Strip Patpong

10 Jun 2018

Back From the Brink? t seems like the climate of Patpong is in such a state of flux that by the time a blog is published

The Death of the Personal Ad

2 Jun 2018

It’s 2018—the age of PC nonsense, where women in the West can claim sexual assault for having an unsatisfying one-night stand, and all personal ads are

A gogo dancer’s hard lesson

31 May 2018

Last week I got caught in a sudden rain shower while walking down Patpong Soi 1 in the early evening. No gogos were open yet, so

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