It is just me or everybody just went crazy? All my life I dreamed of visiting Asia. I was and am in love with its culture, food, religion and I promised to myself I will one day visit it, country by country. Finally I decided to start with Thailand simply because my boss lives there. He’s an American married with a Thai girl who settled there years back. He was telling me about his home there, the country and habits and I just had to see it. So I booked the flight and the hotel, 5 nights in Bangkok, 9 in Pattaya with a plan to visit all the palaces, temples and whatever else is to see in each of the locations. I would have thought my parents would be happy for me, but no, they are more worried about me being alone there. I am alone everywhere I go anyway, when embarking the ship, when visiting my friends… Talking about friends….I got a strange reaction from them too. They all think that Thailand is the land of sex and that’s it. When I tell them about the things you can see there all I get back are smiles and the annoying “yeah, yeah!” reply. Last friend I told about it advised me to buy a lot of condoms and have fun…. What’s wrong with you guys??? Can I help but thinking this is the same situation that happens to Romania as well. Foreigners who never visited it imagine that Romania is a poor country where everybody abandons their kids because they have nothing to feed them with and the women sell themselves for pennies. How wrong! Anyway, just had to relieve so steam, that idiot friend of mine with the condom comment really pissed me off.Labels: home, travel |
