So I just got back from playing Tour Guide for MyTGF as we spent a two week holiday together in Melbourne and surrounds. It was her first time overseas

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I was sitting in what must be the only non-gay bar on Oxford Street, quietly nursing my $7.70 glass of Asahi when I was hit on by a 45 year old junkie hooker who kept insisting she wasn’t a hooker.

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Holy crap! I’ve just been told I have three days to leave the country! No, I have not insulted the Kings’ daughters, I did not pee on the tires of the Prime Ministers’ car, and I have not made enemies with the local mafia.

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The highlight of last weekend was going to see the long-anticipated release of Thai action star Tony Jaa’s follow-up to Ong-Bak

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MyTGF has never so much as been on a plane before in her life, let alone travelled overseas. I’m not sure who’s more excited, me or her.

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Last Saturday I had the unenviable task of having to meet MyTGF’s mum for the first time.

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MyTGF related the teary-eyed story of how when she was a youngster she would stand tip-toed at the edge of the table and peer over the top as her (now-departed) father and older brother played chess.

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Last weekend YMOTG and MyTGF decided to go upmarket for dinner – the usual 100 baht for 3 courses of gristley beef and chicken-with-chillis-stuffed-with-chillis-in-chilli-sauce just wasn’t doing it for me

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Well well well. One year ago today I left the not so sunny shores of ye olde Melbourne towne for the adventure of a lifetime – living and working in Thailand.

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Day 2 of our Vietnam Odyssey saw us sitting on a bus for four hours as we made our way to Ha Long Bay, all the while listening to our tour guide who was enraptured by the sound of her own voice.

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