| Author: | Jacqueline Stewart | ISBN: | 9781370590001 |
| Publisher: | Jacqueline Stewart | Publication: | April 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jacqueline Stewart |
| ISBN: | 9781370590001 |
| Publisher: | Jacqueline Stewart |
| Publication: | April 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
When she first heard of her husband’s posting to Bangkok, Jacqui’s reaction was panic. How on earth would she manage with three small children? Typhoid, cholera, smallpox were just a few of the things to worry about, not to mention the language and the fact they didn’t know anything about Thailand at all.
They arrive in Bangkok in April, the hottest month. With no air conditioning, the heat is indescribable. But within a week Jacqui and Neil, her husband, had bought an old Ford Zephyr, rented a two-storied house and hired a gardener, cook and wash girl.
But after her first taxi ride when the driver runs over and kills a dog, Jacqui decides to be independent and braves the morning traffic behind the wheel of their new car. It’s chaotic. Road rules are non-existent but she survives.
With the children safely in school and her husband busy at work, Jacqui, a teacher, starts offering English lessons by day while attending a number of social functions by night. Then In the middle of a dinner party her cook is stabbed. Her comfortable existence is rocked further when her husband starts leaving home each night to buy cigarettes…or so he says.
So begins Jacqui’s riveting account of her life in Thailand discovering Nakorn Patom, Bang Pa In, Hua Pin and Pattaya long before the tourists find them.
When she first heard of her husband’s posting to Bangkok, Jacqui’s reaction was panic. How on earth would she manage with three small children? Typhoid, cholera, smallpox were just a few of the things to worry about, not to mention the language and the fact they didn’t know anything about Thailand at all.
They arrive in Bangkok in April, the hottest month. With no air conditioning, the heat is indescribable. But within a week Jacqui and Neil, her husband, had bought an old Ford Zephyr, rented a two-storied house and hired a gardener, cook and wash girl.
But after her first taxi ride when the driver runs over and kills a dog, Jacqui decides to be independent and braves the morning traffic behind the wheel of their new car. It’s chaotic. Road rules are non-existent but she survives.
With the children safely in school and her husband busy at work, Jacqui, a teacher, starts offering English lessons by day while attending a number of social functions by night. Then In the middle of a dinner party her cook is stabbed. Her comfortable existence is rocked further when her husband starts leaving home each night to buy cigarettes…or so he says.
So begins Jacqui’s riveting account of her life in Thailand discovering Nakorn Patom, Bang Pa In, Hua Pin and Pattaya long before the tourists find them.
