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After two children and four trips to Thailand with them as my research assistants, these are some of the tales that
we share at the dinner table when they feel like going on a memory walkabout.
'My son's last visit to Thailand was when he was four and we researched the eastern seaboard together. At the
time his highlights were the hotels that had two complimentary soaps (four-year-olds are easily impressed);
7-Elevens, where his babysitter would buy him cookies; and pineapple ('Dad, have you ever heard of pineapple
before?' he asked during a phone call home). The mosquito net we slept under in Ko Kut became our very own
bat cave. And his great triumph was when he outran the Thai ladies on the beach who wanted to shower him with
love pinches.
On my most recent trip, I brought my one-year-old daughter along to break in her passport. We were based in
Chiang Mai and she loved all of Thailand's cats and dogs, waved at passersby and was well photographed by
Thais and Chinese tourists. She screeched wildly for noodles and protested violently when I didn't get off at
every stop on Bangkok's BTS. She was surprised when we returned home that strangers didn't want to hold her.'
By Lonely Planet Thailand guidebook author, China Williams
