I’ve lived in Bangkok since 2018. Eight years in a city that is loud, chaotic, unapologetically itself, and doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t. I respect that.
This is where I write about life here — the festivals, the food, the expat experience, the things that delight me and the things that don’t. First-person, unfiltered, from someone who actually lives here rather than passing through.
Je vis à Bangkok depuis 2018. Huit ans dans ce pays. J’aime la Thaïlande, j’aime les Thaïlandais, et j’aime aussi beaucoup de Français qui vivent ici ou qui viennent en visite. La communauté française en Thaïlande est diverse, active, et…
Songkran is Thailand’s New Year festival and, in Bangkok, it lasts three days. Not one. Three. The entire city becomes a water fight that nobody specifically asked to join but in which everyone participates regardless. Tourists plan for it. Locals…