🌊 Life of a Farang in Thailand
One Man’s Journal from Patong Beach
Author: David Hibbins
Location: Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand
Started: April 2025
Updated: 17 April 2025
🪷 About This Journal
After years of working too hard, losing too many weekends, and surviving a near-fatal car accident, I made a decision: time to rewrite the script. I swapped spreadsheets for sunsets, boardrooms for beach bars — and now I live semi-retired in Patong Beach, Phuket.
These days, I run a little bar and guesthouse, drink too much iced coffee, and try to remember people’s names in Thai. Alongside that, I write — partly for the joy of storytelling, partly to support my creative ventures in travel, photography, and passion-fueled projects.
This journal is my honest, often humorous, and occasionally reflective take on life as a long-term farang in Thailand. Some entries are lighthearted. Some are thoughtful. Some are just about the strange, beautiful rhythm of living in a place like this.
One rule: I only write when something stands out — big or small. No brushing teeth entries. Probably.
📘 Farang Journal Entries
Part 1
👉 Life of a Farang in Thailand: Cliffside Cocktails & Stormy Beginnings
A soft landing… until the sky fell in.
Part 2
👉 Life of a Farang in Thailand: Baptized by Songkran
When sunscreen meets water buckets, it’s a spiritual awakening.
Part 3
👉 Life of a Farang in Thailand: Too Late for Foam, Right on Time for Madness
Missed the foam party. Made it for the revenge soaking.
Part 4
👉 Life of a Farang in Thailand: The Cat, the Tap, and the Doughnut That Saved the Day
Songkran Hangover Phase 3… with carbs and unexpected plumbing.
Part 5
👉 Life of a Farang in Thailand: Sausage Toe, Seafood Plans & Laundry Karma
Some days you conquer the world. Some days the clothes rack does.
🆕 New entries added when life happens — not just when the calendar says so.
Come back often, laugh with me (or at me), and take a little stroll through this beautifully strange journey.
— David
🌏 Explore More of the Journey
If you’ve made it this far… you’re probably one of us. Curious. A little restless. Maybe looking for something real. Here’s where the story continues:
📸 Reflections Photography
- Sunset Light – Thailand’s golden hours, captured with silence.
- Island Mood – Palms, boats, and barefoot wanderings.
- People & Place – Faces, moments, market scenes.
- Quiet Streets – Life behind the tourist lens.
- Sacred Spaces – Temples, candles, and calm.
See what I see when the noise fades.
👉 Explore the Photo Galleries
📚 Shadow Drift – The Book Series
Meet Cole Rainer — ex-SAS, now a wanderer caught between paradise and chaos.
He came to Thailand to disappear. But trouble, like shadows, follows.
📘 Read the Shadow Drift Series
🧭 Resurgence Travel
Craving something softer than the city?
Let us take you off-grid — Phi Phi, Racha, and places most maps ignore.
