Tarts, Touts & Temples

[Pattaya One]

The title says it all.

From the Hanoi Hilton to ‘Pussy’ Mountain and beyond…

Southeast Asia oozes exoticism, and has done for centuries. This attraction might explain why Britain, France, the United States, and others spent so much energy attempting to turn the region into a tropical version of their own backyard.

Nowadays, it attracts travellers from everywhere, all keen on testing their capacity to withstand stomach bugs, olfactory odours of a pungency not known since the last time they changed a babies nappies, and visual sights that have them thinking they really shouldn’t have experimented quite so liberally with illegal substances in their youth.

In Tarts, Touts and Temples, I have recounted a series of trips and adventures to which many who have been to Southeast Asia can relate. All are true, even if some sound fanciful or a bit too true to be believed.

The book is available as an Amazon Kindle, on Smashwords, and from Thailand’s leading on-line bookseller DCO by following the link:  http://ebooks.dco.co.th/history/view_document/43-tarts-touts-and-temples.html

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