Day 20/21: Back to Pattaya
Buses now depart from outside SM Mall in Angeles and go directly to the airport using Manila's excellent expressway. My bus departed at 9. 30 am and pulled up infront of Terminal 1 at 11.20 am, less than two hours later (and that included a ten minute drop-off at Terminal 3). It cost 410 pesos and I would highly recommend it. Buses depart at half past the hour from from 2. 30 am to 10.30 pm.
The ride gave me a good opportunity to reflect on my time in Angeles. I enjoyed visiting a year ago but now more bars are open and there are lots more girls. I barfined some absolute gems, some of the best girls I've been with in Philippines. The girls from Genesis, Dollhouse and Avalon were spectacular. Perimeter Road is opening up again and there is a reasonable freelance scene too. The place is on an upwards trajectory. Whenever people use a word to describe Angeles the only adjective they seem to be able to find is 'shithole'. It isn't that bad. The place doesn't have much ambiance and there's little to do apart from girlie action but if you pick a nice hotel, you can have a great time in Angeles. It's a sweet shop.
My flight took three hours and included possibly the worst turbulence I've ever encountered as we approached Bangkok. At first people ignored it but then it got worse and there was nervous laughter, then the plane started being buffeted all over the place and my empty cup was thrown from my table. I was pleased to reach terra firma and the immigration queue at Suvanarbhumi was surprisingly small. I got a yellow taxi outside to take me to Pattaya.
Once again I'm staying at Vogue Hotel. The location is great, just off soi Lengkee, the rooms are spacious and clean and they always seem to have good deals on Agoda. My room is costing about 800 baht a night.
The time was 7. 40 pm and ordinarily I'd have been keen to bounce straight back out but I'd been feeling ropy all day and as the day progressed felt progressively worse. I've been feeling run down the past few days, going out every night for three weeks drinking alcohol has caught up with me. I've also got an annoying cough due to all of the cigarette smoke in bars. I went to a local pharmacy and bought some medicine and decided to take the evening off.
Next day I still felt rough. I've noticed I often pick things up in Philippines. I spent a lazy afternoon reading and watching YouTube on my phone but as it started to get dark outside I began to feel considerably better. My cough was gone, largely thanks to the honey and lemon ice tea I bought from a 7 Eleven. I felt fit enough to find a girl.
However, I had to be sensible. Visiting smoky bars would almost certainly set my chest off again and I didn't want to consume any alcohol for the same reason.
For a brief period I thought I'd lined up a Tinder meet, a curvy black girl with outrageously large blowjob lips, but she quoted 3000 short-time, aka gogo prices! My top level for freelancers is 1500, which is what I paid for the tall Nigerian I met earlier in the trip, who was easily on par. She came down to 2000 but wouldn't go any lower.
There was only one thing for it, a trip to soi Honey. Although I've taken two nice girls from this street earlier on the trip, I've probably walked up the street 10 further times and been underwhelmed. On those occasions it didn't matter as I had plenty of other options, like soi 6 for example, but tonight I didn't have the luxury of a backup plan. It was soi Honey or nothing.
A cluster of eager girls were sat outside Paradise and Up to You next door. I continued walking and saw girls sat outside Runway and Pink Lady. These are essentially soi 6 bars on soi Honey, with short-time rooms upstairs. One girl made me hesitate. She was youngish and a definite contender. I wasn't in the hunt for perfection tonight, I just wanted a quick fuck with a reasonably pretty girl. And that's exactly what I found a little further up the road, a curvy Lao girl with a nice smile. The cost was 1300 all-in.
There was no pretense at a massage. She rubbed oil on my chest and immediately began stroking Lancelot junior. She gave an excellent blow-job and then we had sex in a few positions, always awkward on a hard single bed. So much so I took the condom off and she finished me off with an excellent handjob.
Not only was it an enjoyable quickie, I felt absolutely fine throughout. If this was a fitness test, I'd passed with flying colours.
I've got eight more nights in Pattaya before I fly home to England.