Siem Reap, Cambodia to Bangkok, Thailand and on to Koh Samui island off the Sea of Thailand.
US$80/night but we have a 3-bed bungalow on the beach. It’s late when we arrive but it’s Xmas Eve and we want some company and so we take a walk down the beach and Find- “Marie’s- A Bar Sometimes” Luckily it’s a bar right now (Marie, a 50 something Swedish lady in good shape) lives here and she has about a dozen Norwegians and Swedes as guests and she invites us to join them. Everyone is pretty smashed, Xmas lights are strung between two palm trees, there’s a guy wearing not much more than a stuck-on pony tail dancing on the sand with Marie and Marie’s house-companion (“Call me San”) comes over to join Christine, Sarah and me for drinks. She’s Thai and tells us that she lives by impersonating Cher on stage at various clubs. She’s pretty good looking and we all have a good time with good music, plenty of drink and the ocean lapping at the foot of the palm trees.
I go over to try and start a fight between the Norwegians and the Swedish people by innocently asking them which is the best country to live in. (I have never visited either of them). It works and a drink fuelled passionate argument breaks out (the Swedish party and the Norwegian group have never met before tonight), then I go back to Christine, San and Sarah. Then San moves on and Sarah and I enjoy telling an astonished (at first unbelieving) Christine that “San” is really a guy and is a transvestite.
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