LEAVING THE ELEPHANT: AN ODE TO A HOME
October 3, 2015, 11:33 am
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Filed under: Expat life, People, Relationships | Tags: alcohol, Bangkok, Bangkok Shutdown, Beer, boxing, cockroaches, coup, Dr Seuss, Elephant Tower, elephants, Expat life, expats, floods, Gameboy, gym, Health, infidelity, internet, London, Phahon Yothin, prostitutes, Ratchayothin, red Shirt protests, Red Shirts, swimming, terrorism, Thai girls, Thai politics, Thailand, video games, wrestling, Yellow Shirt protests, yellow shirts
People were incredulous when I told them I lived in an elephant’s leg, but I was neither lying nor quoting from a Dr Seuss book. No, for more than seven years I lived in a building called the Elephant Tower, so named because of its unmistakeable shape. See for yourself:
I lived in the back legs of that building, about halfway up. Thus, I named my blog Elephant’s Leg because that had been my perspective point for most of the time I have lived in Thailand. Seven years and three months, in fact. My childhood home aside, it was the longest consecutive time I had stayed in one place.
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