00:00¿Qué es eso?
00:30All we had to go on were maps and atlases.
00:32And Phuket seemed like a long way away.
00:35We also had in our head references like Apocalypse Now.
00:39Actually, when I thought of my brother John back then,
00:42I did think about Kurtz.
00:44I mean, I hadn't seen John since he disappeared off to Thailand,
00:48and I always wondered, what was it like there?
00:51When we finally arrived in Pathang, it was something of a shock.
00:55I don't mean the food or the heat or the monsoon rains,
00:59but it was more the culture around John and Guy's bar,
01:02a culture shared with all the other bars in Pathang.
01:06The clearest image from that trip in the late 1990s
01:10was of men travelling to Pathang alone
01:13with the aim of finding a girlfriend and going on a bender.
01:18Actually, we too went on a kind of bender.
01:21Maybe we were trying to understand that world,
01:24and perhaps the only way to comprehend it was by being drunk.
01:29Thanks.
01:29We'll see you next week.
01:31You know,
01:31we're going to get to the lake here.
01:31You're welcome.
01:31You're welcome.
