Trip report April / September 2025 – Da Nang & beyond – Research if an elderly gay retiree can live comfortably in Da Nang, Vietnam

[Olddaddy]

Gyms in Da Nang ?

Are you going to review any?

[bkkmfj2648]

1 hour ago, Olddaddy said:

Gyms in Da Nang ?

My favorite Da Nang YouTuber (please don't tell Social Samy) is Travis, and he recently published a very good review of 4 of the Da Nang gyms that farangs would most likely go to.

 

1 hour ago, Olddaddy said:

Are you going to review any?

Probably not.  After I left Jomtien for Cebu at the end of December, I stopped my gym routine acter 7 months.

I'm just not in the mood at the moment.

Perhaps, when I return to Jomtien in September I can restart. 🤞🤞💪

 

[vinapu]

7 hours ago, PeterRS said:

 bared my soul a few times in this forum and it is amazing how understanding members here are.

or skilfully  hiding their glee  thinking ' if somebody has to have misfortune, it's better him then me " 

[bkkmfj2648]

Day 25 in Da Nang – 18 May 2025

 

Wake up with slight nausea again.  Am I pregnant and I don’t realize it? 🤔

This morning is the next instalment of the    meet up – but I am just not in the mood so I skip it.

 

Eat my daily yoghurt and addictive wasabi covered cashew nuts.

Respond to some not so easy posts and DMs and post my 17 May trip report updates.

By 1:30pm, I am back at    and the Vietnamese guy that I have a crush on is working today.  He is adorable and soo my type and he is super friendly – but that friendliness is offered to all of the customers of Gordon’s.  I sneak a few photos of him when he is not looking – but I won’t post them here as I would like to respect his privacy.  Also, this guy (kid) makes the BEST salt coffee out of all of the staff – as the way he makes it so creamy is unique and lustful.  I eat my usual chicken club sandwich on a poppy seed bagel.

The sun is extreme today and in full force (but I am wearing my Crocodile Dundee hat to protect my scalp) and I decide to walk in a nearby neighborhood where they are constructing a new condo building that is on the beach that I really like as I like its form and  huge balconies that overlook the sea.  It is still in one of my 2 favorite neighborhoods, My Khe and is about a 10 minute walk northbound from where I am located now.  My understanding is that it will be a mixed use Hotel/Condotel type of complex and should be ready for occupation towards the end of this year. 

It’s name is:     My Khe T50 – being build by Sunjin Vietnam.

 

Walk along the enchanting beach promenade to my favorite place to drink my salt coffee physically on the beach at: 

Today, I get to sit in one of the lovely blue wooden beach chairs  (normally they are fully occupied), instead of having to sit on the traditional fragile low to the ground typical Vietnamese beach chairs  where I can sip my yummy iced salt coffee  

Afterwards, when I get home, I realize that some of the blue paint from those wooden beach chairs is now on my white Cebu tourist shirt  and I wash it and it won’t come out.  So, I guess for my future visits to Caribou that I will need to sit my fat ass on those flimsy low to the ground Vietnamese beach chairs and hope that it does not break  -  hahaha…

I get a craving for a massage and I look in Heesay (formerly BLUED) and I see profile = msaaassssssa and so I write to him asking if he makes massages – but as massage is a blacklisted word, I use the Vietnamese equivalent of mátxa .

He sends me his photo on  – very manly – and I tell him to come to my condo room at 6:30pm.

I now tell the massage guys to come directly upstairs to my room because the security downstairs is similar to the security back in Jomtien and they rarely stop or question anyone.  Also, in this Da Nang condo building you need an electronic key fob to use the elevator – but I have witnessed several times now that other inhabitants here in this big condo complex don’t use the key fob – and their strategy is to wait until someone enters the elevator and beeps his/her key fob on the scanner and then EVERYONE in the elevator is free to push his/her desired floor.  So, now the massage guys follow this routine and I don’t need to go downstairs to get them and/or wait for them.  So, this is a BIG win in my opinion, when I compare retiree life with that I found in Cebu with strict security controls, ID deposits, and signature books – and the security team knowing all about your private business.  So, this Da Nang condo is similar to my retiree live in my VT building back in Jomtien where I can maintain my privacy.

He arrives 20 minutes early and I let him in and he gives me a big octopus type of hug – and I think to myself – yuck – as I generally don’t like guys who are too touchy feely.  But he only did that upon entering and upon leaving.  In between he was a professional masculine masseur – so my fears of having to fight off an octopus were not realized.  I offer him a drink and he wants to go out onto the balcony to see the beautiful 33^rd floor amazing view and he asks me to take several photos of him looking at the sea from my balcony.  It was fun.

Afterwards we get naked and he starts his massage and it is truly professional and after like 30 minutes I caught myself falling asleep when one of my snores woke me up and we had a good laugh.  I am truly enjoying his massage.  At around the 45 minute mark he asks me to turn over and he starts licking my nipples and then moves to give me a really good BJ, but I can rarely get off from a BJ so I grab my special edging lotion and then I show him how to slowly edge the gland part of my cock – as that is my G-spot and he does a very good job and after like 20 minutes the happy ending arrives.  He takes a shower and I gather the money to pay his requested fee of 1,400,000 VND (around $54 USD) for a 90 minute massage, but I don’t have the correct change – so I give him three 500,000 VND bank notes for 1,500,000 VND and I tell him to keep the change, which is around $3.85 USD.

I take a shower and as per the suggestion of forum member, @aussie_ (see 18 May trip update comment) and I head over to:

 

https://www.facebook.com/thenomadkitchendn/

which is nearby, but on a small street, An Thuong 32, which I have never ventured into.  I wanted to get the Buffalo dinner as suggested by @aussie_ but they had a special Sunday menu that featured lamb leg, which I really like so I went with that special, which was truly enjoyable with a nice cool and refreshing San Miguel beer.

The Nomad Kitchen menu can be found here at: https://9717abe07c8547378adf392fdf7cd220.sapofnb.vn/

I cannot wait to return so that I can try the buffalo meal – as I used to often eat buffalo when I lived in Denver, Colorado.

I return back to my condo and I chat with my boyfriend and I try to boost his morale, with this Thai cartoon meme:

as it is another slow night at the market as the rain is off-and-on, thus few customers.

Fast asleep after the completion of a satisfying retiree day.

 

End of day 25 in Da Nang – 18 May 2025

 

[floridarob]

I never thought to ask .... do you cook at all?

[bkkmfj2648]

Just now, floridarob said:

I never thought to ask .... do you cook at all?

I know how to cook a very limited set of dishes.

But I don't like to cook, as going out to eat for me is an opportunity to socialize and meet new people.

As I don't really like to sit and drink (I am not big on alcohol, as alcoholism was a nasty affair in my childhood, so being near alcohol can sometimes bring back some wicked memories) - I find it boring - going out to eat is my substitute for that activity.

[spoon]

Paint thinner might help removing those blue paint

[vinapu]

8 hours ago, spoon said:

Paint thinner might help removing those blue paint

and may even fend off covid, ask current POTUS or his Health Secretary

[vinapu]

15 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

 

Wake up with slight nausea again.  Am I pregnant and I don’t realize it? 🤔

 

yes

[bkkmfj2648]

Day 26 in Da Nang – 19 May 2025

 

Woke up without nausea today – yahoo – I am not pregnant!!

Eat breakfast in condo and complete yesterday’s trip report update.

It’s already twoish, so I head back to:

And it is quite busy – so I am happy that their new business has taken off.

I decide to try the Safari Signature Breakfast:

As you can see, it is a vegetarian dish and very delicious, but I am still hungry, so I order their famous French Toast with Banana and Ice Cream plate:

This was truly a delight to eat.

I chat up the 1 Vietnamese barista / waiter, as it seems obvious that he is gay, and I compliment his salt coffee and I tell him that there are big variations between the salt coffees here in Da Nang and I tell him that his is one of the best, other than the one at Gordon’s Bagel shop.

As it is now just a little after 3pm, I decide to walk (as the sun starts to weaken around now) to the far away ATM machine that can dispense 10,000,000 VND in one go.  This walk takes 40 minutes and is a good way to try to stay healthy.  Afterwards, I walk over to the beach promenade, which takes another 30 minutes.

This part of my trip report I dedicate to our @Olddaddy

Why?

Our Olddaddy has often complained about horns and street noises in his travels.  Here in Da Nang there are also daily noises and other than the constant car honking, I have encountered 2 additional noises that are unique here:

1.     This is the noise that the Bánh Bao vendors make with the megaphones that are attached to their motorbikes.  Here is a YouTube video to this annoying sound – where this YouTuber takes it to the NEXT level and creates a disco song from this Bánh Bao vendor sound.  Quite unique. 

 

So Olddaddy – could you get used to this noise – the part before the disco part starts ?  There are at least 12 of these Bánh Bao vendors driving around all day and all night.

  2.)  Today on the beach I heard a NEW unique noise – it was the sound of a wailing siren that was emitting from a policeman’s megaphone on the beach.  The Da Nang municipality takes very seriously to keep the Da Nang beach and adjacent promenade to be clean, curated, beautiful, and orderly.  So, these police saw a bunch of motorbikes illegally parked and so they set off this weird siren noise to alert everyone that they would be moving the disorderly parked motorbikes to the nearby orderly area.  The minute that sound initiated, flocks of people ran to their respective motorbikes to put them where they belong.

The irony of all of this is that the Vietnamese people are notorious for parking their motorbikes all over the pedestrian sidewalks over in the city and I can say also in all of the other Vietnamese cities that I have visited.  So, I was impressed that the police are willing to keep the beach promenade orderly but perplexed as to why they don’t also do it over in the city part of Da Nang?

 Anybody know why?

I stop by to visit my favorite place to have a coffee on the beach: 

 

for a wonderful salt coffee and to watch some new type of team building event that is taking place on the beach:

Head back to my room to do some laundry and chat with my BF who is in better spirits – as it is not raining back in Pattaya in this moment and there is a decent amount of foot traffic in the food market where his shop is located.

I take a nap and afterwards I head over to a Japanese ramen restaurant:

https://www.facebook.com/yoshinoshotendanang/

 

You may remember that I took a fancy to Japanese ramen when I was in Cebu for 2 months earlier this year.  Prior to going to Cebu I had never eaten Japanese ramen – so I was very pleased to discover this ramen restaurant here in Da Nang.

I ordered the “beef bone and thick white chicken broth based soy sauce ramen” and a side dish of gyoza with a cold Sapporo beer – this is how it was written on the menu.

For me, this meal was outstanding and so tasty and delicious.  I truly enjoyed my meal here and I will definitely be returning.

I share with all of you a TikTok video of what I believe is the Japanese owner showing how his Japanese ramen is made and served – very impressive:

 

Before heading back to my room I stop for a durian + coconut shavings ice cream:

 

at the ice cream cart that is near my condo

Chat with my BF and then watch some YouTube videos and then call it a night.

 

End of day 26 in Da Nang – 19 May 2025

 

[KeepItReal]

8 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

 

 

 

Chat with my BF and then watch some YouTube videos and then call it a night.

 

End of day 26 in Da Nang – 19 May 2025

 

I see "ex boyfriend" is now "boyfriend" again.  We are happy for you! 

[bkkmfj2648]

1 hour ago, KeepItReal said:

I see "ex boyfriend" is now "boyfriend" again.  We are happy for you! 

I thank you for enjoying my soap opera.

Fingers crossed that for this 2nd time it will really work 🤞🤞

[vinapu]

10 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

 

Woke up without nausea today – yahoo – I am not pregnant!!

 

nothing short of miracle

[vinapu]

with all those delicious food you are showing us and eating you better invest in some scales and check your weight along with belt size

[PeterRS]

9 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

Fingers crossed that for this 2nd time it will really work 🤞🤞

There is no playbook for affairs of the heart for virtually anyone, especially two people from different countries and cultures. There are really ony signs which can be difficult to interpret unless both parties are somehow able to be 100% honest with each other - and that is never easy.

Seeing the major change in your feelings - sadness and weeping in the first couple of days to certainly hope that it will all work out again now - do you have a plan B? I know it's a rather silly question because I don't think I ever had a plan B. Fortunately I had a very good friend who would always listen to the tales of my latest romantic tragedy and then tell me I'd been stupid (although not always true)! But in a sense that kept me grounded.

[bkkmfj2648]

2 hours ago, PeterRS said:

do you have a plan B? I know it's a rather silly question because I don't think I ever had a plan B.

Thanks for your concerns and great question.

In my prior careers in banking and then at the UN, I was always creating ways to mitigate potential problems, consequently I was always creating plan(s) B, C, D, E, etc.  So, this is part of my DNA.

I believe that I already stated my plan B (without calling it as such) in an earlier thread.  If it does not work out, my plan B is to move on and to start dating other guys.  The pain to activate plan B will be less - as I already invested too much sorry and tears and pain during the original breakup.

This is not my first encounter with "second chances" in my life, as I have implemented them back in the USA, Italy, Hungary, and in Thailand (boyfriend prior to this one).  Obviously they all failed - otherwise I would still now be with the guy that I gave a second chance to.

Why do I do this then if I already know the outcome?

Because I need to cancel in my brain and heart any doubts that it could have worked and that I gave said relationship all of my best efforts.

Once I know this - it makes it much easier to walk away.

I am not there yet - as I want to see if this plan B might work.  🤞

[bkkmfj2648]

11 hours ago, vinapu said:

with all those delicious food you are showing us and eating you better invest in some scales and check your weight along with belt size

Yes, my belly and waist size has grown - unfortunately.

I will probably need to return to the in Pattaya - the place where I did all of that crazy Focus Shockwave therapy for Erectile Dysfunction which I documented in our forum at:

 

Before I left for Cebu, I had some belly fat reduction sessions that they refer to as:

  

https://www.doctoryadaclinic.com/บริการที่เรามีให้คุณ-2/coolsculpting/

So, there is always a solution in today's world....

[bkkmfj2648]

Day 27 in Da Nang – 20 May 2025

 

I wake up at 6:30am sweating and I don’t understand what is going on.  I notice that the air conditioner is off and I try to turn it back on, and then I realize that there is NO electricity in my condo.  I try to make myself sleep some more and I toss and turn until around 7:30am my landlord sends me the below WhatsApp message:

So puzzle solved.  It is useless to try to sleep some more and I get up and eat breakfast.

Back in Jomtien where I live at VT, they also have scheduled power outages for maintenance purposes.  To date, there have been no power brownouts here in Da Nang, and I can say the same for Cebu and Jomtien.

So, this morning I am limited to using just my laptop with its small screen until the power runs out – but I think that it will last until the return of the electricity scheduled for 2pm.

I receive a sad email from AFICS-T

https://www.aficsthailand.com/

which is an association for us retirees based in Bangkok – mainly for ex UN staff.  When I separated from the UN in March 2022, I joined  which is the association for us retirees – but mainly with a focus on those retirees residing in Italy.  Shortly after I arrived in Thailand, I joined AFICS-T, as I wanted to be kept up to date about retiree life in Thailand – as the FFOA does not really offer much for those of us in Asia.

 

It seems that there are no volunteers putting themselves forward to serve on the Executive Board and as per their by-laws they may need to shut down.

In addition, another email arrives from the AFICS-T sub-group, known as FLiT (Foreigner Living in Thailand) that they are disbanding FLiT due to the above possible shut down of AFICS-T.

So, I spend a good part of the morning to see if AFICS-T may be able to salvage itself – as this is disheartening if it cannot be saved, especially in light of the ongoing UN80 turmoil:

https://www.crisisgroup.org/global-united-states/doing-less-with-less-un

 

So, not a good start to today’s morning.

I post yesterday’s trip report update.

Around 1:10pm, there is a beeping sound and the return of the electricity – yahoo!!!  I close all of the windows and reactivate the airconditioning.

Around 2pm I head back to   for my usual – but today I have a purpose to break the ice with that cute Vietnamese barista that I have a crush on.  When I arrive, we are already like family and before I can open my mouth they tell me that I would like to order a salt coffee with a chicken club sesame seed bagel.  We all laugh as I tell them – oops, I always eat a poppy seed bagel.

I eat my meal and I wait until the guys are bored and there are no other customers and I walk over to all of them and I say:  “Have you seen the Bánh Bao dance beat?”  They don’t understand me and ask me if I want to eat a  I say no, wait a minute and I show them the Bánh Bao YouTube dance video (that I posted in my yesterday trip report update).  They all start laughing and are amazed that some crazy foreigner mixed that annoying Bánh Bao sound into a disco dance beat.  I try to get closer to the sexy barista but the kind-of-cute male cashier tries instead to get my attention.  He is nice but not what I desire.  So, I then decide to leave and now I can have the freedom to tease the cute barista (when he is alone) with the Bánh Bao disco dance.

All happy and elated with my sinister plot I decide that today is a good day to walk to the end of Da Nang city – on the beach.  It is a very tiring walk (beach sand) but I need some good exercise and the constant wind coming off of the sea is refreshing – even if the intense sun can be annoying – but I am armed with my Crocodile Dundee hat.

I reach the point where the beach promenade stops, and the beach road narrows and curves, and starts it assent up into Sơn Trà Mountain (aka Monkey Mountain).  I take some photos of the iconic “thung chai” = “basket boats” that the local fisherman use here.

Here in Da Nang, the fishermen use these basket boats to oar out to their anchored fishing boats.  In the video below, you can see one in action.

Now totally dehydrated and exhausted I call a Grab car to take me back to my AirBnB. The Grab driver speaks great English and he makes me laugh, so I show him the Bánh Bao dance video on YouTube and he is in awe that some foreigner took this mundane annoying sound and turned it into a song.  He gets the YouTube information so that he can show it to his friends.  I really enjoyed my time with him and he gives me his business card – where on the back are 4 distinct QR codes for , , , and .  

This is EXACTLY what I want for my BF’s to-be-created business cards where instead of chat apps they would be food delivery apps.  I decide that I might hire this Grab driver when I will need to go to the airport to pickup my BF when he arrives from Thailand.

I chat with BF and then I fall asleep for a short nap.  Wake up and I feel hungry for Middle Eastern food and I walk around until I find:

https://www.facebook.com/zzeytun.nha.hang

 

There is a very sexy HOT arab looking man sitting at one of the other tables and after I ordered I understood that he was the cook – as he disappeared into the kitchen after my order was taken.

I order the lamb shish kebab with kabsa rice and a plate of falafels with hummus dip and salad.

The rice and the hummus were great.  However, the lamb was overcooked and tough, and the pita bread was too hard.

So, out of 10, I would give tonight’s meal a vote of 6.  And perhaps a 12, if I was allowed to get on my knees and worship the hot Arab chef, who I later found out is from Lebanon.  I can only imagine what was hiding in his pants – but he was very heterosexual and the female Vietnamese owner has him on a tight leash.

I had seen the below post by our forum member = @alexch, and I imagined that the Arab chef had the same tool as in alexch’s post:

 

What a piece of Arab meat in that post - thank you alexch.  Mamma mia!!!

Afterwards, while I am walking towards my favorite coconut ice cream food cart – a very sexy 20 year old Vietnamese kid, decides to chat me up with the excuse of wanting to practice his English.  I already knew that this would be a scam or sales pitch for something else – as this already happened to me by 2 other paired Vietnamese university students who got me to buy some unneeded Vietnamese coffee – but I enjoyed my time with them.

So, this kid tells me he is a university student in Economics and he needs to practice his English with real foreigners like me, because he will have an oral English proficiency exam at his university.  He is truly adorable, manly, but very much a Fonzie type of Vietnamese kid. Anyway, he finally arrives at the true purpose of his approach when he finally asks me a dangerous question:

“Can you guess what I want from you?”

After the previous Arab chef meeting – I had to force myself to respond with, “you want to sell me something….” (I really wanted to say, can I bring you to my bed in my nearby condo?).  He laughs – and says yes, but you have to guess what it is.  Well he did not have any coffee products like the other university students that I encountered days ago, so I was perplexed.  I said, No – what is it you want to sell me?  He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a pen – but this pen has a thick inkwell – which I really like as I hate when my favorite pen runs out of ink.  So, I ask him the price.  He says, that he normally sells it for 30k, but today because he really likes me I can have it for 20k (around $0.77 USD).  So, I give him 50k and I tell him to keep the change.  He turns bright red – I guess he never met a crazy gullible stupid American before.

In the interval, I show the kid the Bánh Bao dance video on YouTube and he is amazed and really likes it.  He takes the information about the video so that he can show his friends – he even makes some sexy dance moves to the video.

After his redness passes, he tells me that his university gives him a quota to sell 2 pens per day and he only sold 1 pen for today.  So, I give him another 50K for the 2^nd pen and tell him to keep the change.  Now he is flabbergasted and he insists on buying me something to eat – I tell him – no thanks, I already ate my dinner and I am on my way to get a coconut durian ice cream and I ask him if he also wants one.  He says yes and I order us 2 of them.  The shop already knows me, but I can sense that they are perplexed as to why a 63 year old foreigner is with a 20 year old Vietnamese kid – this is definitely NOT Pattaya.

Then off in the distance I see Samy Social (the YouTube blogger) approaching, and I turn my back, so he won’t see me, as I don’t want this recorded on his YouTube broadcast.

So, we finish our ice creams and part ways and that was definitely an enjoyable interaction.

I head back to my room exhausted – it is now 11pm and I chat with my BF as he is closing his shop 30 minutes early tonight because – AGAIN – it is raining in Pattaya and the market is completely empty.  I try to cheer him up.

Afterwards, I can’t get that hot Arab chef out of my mind, so I fire up some Arab porn and I go to town until the resulting 🍆💦💦

 

End of day 27 in Da Nang – 20 May 2025

[vinapu]

10 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

 

So, out of 10, I would give tonight’s meal a vote of 6.  And perhaps a 12, if I was allowed to get on my knees and worship the hot Arab chef, who I later found out is from Lebanon.  I can only imagine what was hiding in his pants – but he was very heterosexual

don't Lebanese hetero men working in Da Nang need money I wonder

[Olddaddy]

Well at least you like Da Nang far more than Cebu....and frankly who can blame you 😉😉

[PeterRS]

11 hours ago, vinapu said:

don't Lebanese hetero men working in Da Nang need money I wonder

You do realise, don't you, that the vast majority of men are heterosexual and money certainly does not buy everything. Da nang is nothing like Pattaya.

[vinapu]

31 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

 the vast majority of men are heterosexual 

shock for me

[vinapu]

39 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

 Da nang is nothing like Pattaya.

while you are 127.63% right , as we know bkkmfj  on this trip already received out of blue proposal and I told my story from Hoi An when I got the same.

Money doesn't buy everything but at the same time many things people are a paying for still can be had for free by others , more lucky.

[bkkmfj2648]

Day 28 in Da Nang – 21 May 2025

 

Check my emails and I see a reply from the AFICS-T, FLiT (Foreigners Living in Thailand) where they share something with me that I was not aware of within the Thai Revenue Department (RD).  The former RD Chief is no longer in power.  Hallelujah!!  She is the one who drafted the proposal that scared away many of us residents in Thailand with her proposal to tax our foreign income even if NOT brought into Thailand.

Link to a scathing article written by Benjamin Hart from Integrity Legal - written last year when the former RD Chief proposed amending Section 41 of the Thai Revenue Code:

https://www.legal.co.th/resources/corporate-and-tax-advisory/thailand-tax-law/thailand-needs-stop-and-think-about-changes-tax-policy/

This positive news from FLiT put me in such a good mood – as this RD threat has been lurking in the background and was the secondary purpose of my year 2025 trips to Cebu and now Da Nang – to see and learn if I could live in these places as a retiree had the Thai RD gone forward with their threat to implement a global taxation scheme.  So, FLiT has allayed my fears that I would need to vacate Thailand.

Now we await for the Thai Finance Minister, Pichai Chunhavajira

to submit the new decree, which would grant tax-free status on remitted money into Thailand, as long as this transfer is completed within 1 year.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2025/05/19/thai-revenue-planning-new-decree-making-remitted-foreign-funds-within-one-year-tax-free-for-residents/#google_vignette

Thailand has admitted that the prior September 2023 tax change that became effective 01-Jan-2024, has had the “unintended” consequences of decreasing incoming foreign fund inflows (FDI) into the country, and now Thailand is hungry to resolve this problem, as it is having a negative impact on the Thai GDP and economy.  This new tax legislation will become a Royal Decree, then it has to be voted on by the Thai Parliament, and then issued in the Royal Gazette, when it would then become law.

I am so happy that Thailand is finally moving in the right direction.  But, this being Thailand (TiT), we need to await to see the actual words that will appear in the Royal Gazette to understand if this new Royal Decree will be financially positive for us tax residents in Thailand – as we all know:

Post my 21 May trip report updates, and eat some yoghurt.

There was so much information to assimilate this morning – time flies when you are having fun – it is already 3:30pm and I haven’t had a proper meal yet.

So, I look at Samy Social’s Da Nang Treasure map and I chose a new all day breakfast place:

https://www.facebook.com/brecocoffee

This place is on the An Thuong 2 street that is primarily the hub of the digital nomads and surfer crowd and sure enough the place is full with this type of crowd.  It reminds me of my high school years, when there were the “athletic sport jocks” and the “nerds” – of which I was apart of the nerd crowd.  Some of the guys are truly stunning and you can see that their life is only sport.

I order my usual salt coffee with a chicken omelet and a pumpkin soup.

The omelet was awesome and full of super fresh vegetables.  The pumpkin soup was not very impressive – as if it probably came from a can of soup.

What is cool about this place is that the “kitchen” is located squarely in the center of the restaurant – more like the luncheonettes we had back home.

It makes it noisy but also it is interesting watching 5 to 6 ladies work in that small space to prepare all of our wonderful food.

So, I eat a great brunch and enjoy the eye candy without being too obvious.

By now it is almost 4:45pm, which is an excellent time to go to the beach and watch all of the going ons and athletes playing volleyball, jogging, swimming, working out, etc.

I settle in at my favorite coffee shop on the beach

https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/109739121673546/caribou-food-truck/

 

And I take a front row seat to watch the nearby volleyball and drink my 2nd salt coffee, and long and behold – one of the surfer guy hotties that I saw back in the Bréco restaurant is now at the beach warming up to play volleyball:

 

Now I reflect on my Jomtien beach time versus my Da Nang beach time and I have to say that Da Nang has the better looking men – although, I would say that 99% are not available for sex.  However, in Jomtien, we do have sometimes good looking athletic men like the one in this photo and sometimes they can be had for sex – as I was able to get 2 super sexy Russian footballers from Jomtien into my bed – only because I befriended 1 that was a MB on Hornet and then once I won over his trust I asked him to involve another guy from the local Russian football team for some more fun in my bed.  I just can’t see that being possible here in Da Nang – as I comb the apps every day and the few MBs that do exist are 99% Vietnamese.  Don’t get me wrong, I do like the Vietnamese guys – I am just noting the difference in the MB experience of Da Nang versus Jomtien.  I leave Cebu out of this discussion because there are no open free beaches in Cebu like we have in Da Nang and in Jomtien.

Around 7pm I head back to my room and around 9pm I head over to

https://www.facebook.com/flyburgersvietnam/

for a nice blue cheese burger with fries with a banana-mango shake.

No coconut ice cream tonight (I'm stuffed) – but 2 different Vietnamese guys solicit me for boom-boom – but I say no – as I am pretty sure that they take you to a shop where you can have sex with a woman = no thank you.  I am getting familiar with these barkers as they tend to congregate in front of this place:

So, one night when I am feeling more brave I will ask them if they have male VIP on offer.

Head back to my room and chat with my boyfriend who is in an ok mood as the rain today back in Pattaya has been off and on and has allowed him to have some foot traffic sales.  I use this as an opportunity to remind him that this is why the resolution of this QR code dilemma is super important – because when it is raining the customers can order from one of the food app delivery services and not need to venture out into the rain and get wet.

Before falling asleep, I take a quick look on the apps and I see a Vietnamese MB who has a 21cm cock – of which I downloaded and would love to post it here in this post – but perhaps it would not be in good taste??  I ask him if he makes massage and he replies no and that instead of a massage he can pound my ass with his 21cm – I decline.

 

End of day 28 in Da Nang – 21 May 2025

[floridarob]

15 hours ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

instead of a massage he can pound my ass with his 21cm – I decline.

I'm going to have to block you 😝

@Olddaddy what would you have done in this situation?