Barry’s visit to Bangkok in 2004 is back Online April 21, 2005
Posted by Martin in : Thailand , trackbackHaving had some major updates to his excellent blog site, my good friend Barry Price has re-published his comprehensive diary about when he came to visit me in Bangkok during March 2004.
Barry’s intelligent prose, odorous humour and his siamese-twin-like attachment to me for nearly 2 weeks means that readers can experience a fortnight of my life without me having to write anything.
Barry’s diary covers nearly everything. There’s a few incidents which he has presumably cut from his brain. I guess it takes anybody but Barry to appreciate the look of sheer terror and disgust on his face when a Nana Plaza go-go girl tried to impress him by dropping her panties to the floor and grinning like a child who’s just realized the humour in saying ‘poo-poo’ to everything.
Barry mysteriously has forgotton how being heckled by bar girls as we walk around Sukumvit I am addressed as a ‘handsome man’ whereas he is regarded merely as a ‘young boy’. Considering Barry superlatises me in height, weight, girth and age I was quite flattered to be mistaken as the older man of the pair.
I’ve had a number of friends come to visit me but I’d say that Barry’s visit in 2004 was one of the best times I’ve had out here. What topped the enjoyment for me above much else was the fact that Barry and I had lived quite separate lives for the last 9 years or so. Rekindling a friendship after all that time, learning all the gossip, reliving the good old days and mocking his bowling-pin physique was presumably a reason why Barry returned 12 months later to visit me again.
Barry has just told me that he’s soon to update his site with his diary for his Thailand 2005 trip which was last February. I’m looking forward to that.
You can read Barry’s Thailand Diary 2004 Here.
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