South-East Asia Destination

By: Daniel Jowssey

If you have ever gone to Pattaya, Thailand you know what the Pattaya blues are.

When I talk about the Pattaya blues I am not referring to music. I am talking about the feeling of remorse you have after you have just spent the best three weeks of your life.

Every single man who has ever experienced Pattaya knows this feeling. The symptoms usually start two to three days before your flight back home.

You have been having a blast partying day and night for a few weeks and the reality of going back home is starting to sink in. You realize that in a matter of days you will be back to your miserable town, your terrible job, and cold weather in winter.

You start to realize that you won't be able to get great meals for a few dollars. You are going to miss all of those lovely lasses and their Thai smiles. You will really miss the laid back, mai pen rai attitude that everyone in Thailand has.

With the blues setting in, you will try to live your last couple of days in Pattaya to the fullest. You will go out and eat, drink and be crazy. You will do all of the shopping that you should have done the first two weeks. You will try to cram another two weeks of fun into your last two days.

And then the fateful day will come. You will have to face the eventuality that you have to go back to Bangkok and catch your flight back home. You will plan your last night to go everywhere and do everything. There will be a lot of ""good-bye's"" and farewell toasts. You will visit all of your favorite bars and try to decide what you will wind up doing on your last night in fun city.

And then the taxi arrives and you mope all the way to the airport. You will fondly remember all the good times and snap back to reality and remember that you are going back to the real world.

On the plane you will relive every moment of the past few weeks. The good, bad, and possibly ugly. And then you will start to think about your return trip. You will try to figure out how you can get two vacations in one year instead of just one. How you can earn extra money so you can get back to Pattaya as soon as possible.

Landing at your home airport will jolt you back to reality. You will clear customs and head home. You may spend time looking at your vacation pictures and surfing the net for Pattaya pages.

You will go to forums to post your trip report and tell others about your great vacation. You will listen to Thai music and watch some of the videos you bought. You will tell your friends and co-workers tales of your trip that they won't believe in a million years.

You will search for a cure for the Pattaya Blues and one day you will realize that the only cure is to return. There is no other medicine, drug, or magic potion that will cure you. You have to return. So you do the math, check with the boss, work the overtime and buy your return ticket.

You are not cured yet, but you are starting to feel better. The symptoms will stay with you right up until you board the plane for your flight to Pattaya, Thailand. Then you will finally be cured, or will you?

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