Another excuse to loiter on Pattaya Beach Road

[Pattaya One]

It is easy to stroll down Pattaya Beach Road (PBR), glowering at the jet ski scammers, avoiding the cross-eyed gaze of the blowzy harlots, being accosted by dodgy tattooed drug dealers and staring, astonished, at some of the flotsam of Pattaya’s lowest end tourists of all nationalities, as they shamefully try to haggle down the price of an already cheap bunk-up with some nasty old crone.

Most people think PBR is a horrible place, ugly, dirty and dangerous.

And it is.

But it is also a walkway full of public art, much of it, surprisingly in this over-scammed town, of decent quality, and most of it certainly deserves to be looked at more by passing tourists, although it is often easy to overlook it as ones' eyes wander elswehere.

In an attempt to put this right, I thought we should focus on some of the public art on display on the beachside of PBR.

All those in favour of starting a jet ski business when we get older raise their hands.

There is some good art on PBR (most of it, relatively speaking) and some bad (eg, the appalling, spalling concrete fountain).

A lot of things caught my attention once I started looking closely.

You will see it on lamp posts:

Lamp post: Girl Riding a Fish

Lamp post: Girl on a chicken

On raised platforms which many don't bother walking on, such as these opposite Mike's Plaza:

Can you hear the sea in your shell? No I’m on my mobile.

Or to the side of the road, either hidden behind shrubbery like the main photo, or in the dirt or concrete blocks like those below.

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