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Lol, some farang input into that text me thinks :)

Some final shots of the changing face of this famous street, along with some beach front photos of how it is today.

Great detective there PG. Now that I see your map the location of Soi Croc makes more sense. From my night time visit I could see any obvious LB venues, a shame if there aren’t any now on Bangla, maybe they are on other nearby Sois. Interestingly there is a still a Tiger Complex in Patong. This incarnation is on the Soi behind JungCeylon. Again if memory serves me well, it was the Tiger Complex on Soi Bangla where the original smaller CnDs was located, this was before Jimbo turned up on the scene and it became the cabaret venue most are familiar with.

Went back one afternoon as the missus wanted to see Patong again in daylight. From what I recall Cocktails n Dreams was somewhere in this area on the left, very different now.. And the podium and Soi Crocodile were somewhere to the right of this Irish bar

One for the diary

Lol no it’s a fair comment and basically I was capturing how the street is today…if there had been ladyboys dancing on podiums for sure there would have been a shit load of pics, but sadly no. The photos reflect the reality of this famous street in its current state, warts and all 100% :)

Thanks Dan, this whole trip has been tinged with nostalgia for me. Been mulling a lot over how the scene has developed over the years I have been coming here, bars that came and went and good guys no longer around for whatever reason. Years ago I was always so eager to be out and about at night and in the mix of it all, whereas nowadays I feel quite detached from the bar scene, almost like a newbie when I go to the various LB venues with friends who are in town.

Spending a week in Phuket and managed to make a flying visit to Patong the other night, my first time back there in almost 18 years. We spent most of our time on Bangla Road and some time down on the beach. It certainly seemed to be busier than I remember, and like Walking St these days, it took me some time to place where the old familiar venues used to be located. One thing that struck me was how open the bars were, plenty of girls dancing for the whole street to see. Alas Soi Crocodile is no more, there is a bar complex on the site, but the famous podium is gone, lord knows when it disappeared. Still plenty of LBs lining the street, but I think the talent was better back in the day also. Doubt I’ll ever go back again, a nice bit of nostalgia for a brief time, but I’m a different man today to that younger version who left there in the spring of ‘07 :)

We had a quiet one on the hill last night as both Jimslim and I are flying today alas.

He seemed to be in good spirits. A good old evening in the bar, cheers to Petesie, New and the gang :)

Always happy to take them Emmy

A fun, late night in the bar last night :)

Diamond and Biwty playing up for the camera last night..

Sounds like she revs your engineer there Woodie :)

Was in town on one of my rare visits last night, think the last time I was actually in Delirious was about 4 weeks ago, my now the weeks are flying. No name alas