With names like Oops, Beavers and Cheeky Monkey, it’s clear the dive bars along Soi 80 in the coastal city of Hua Hin, Thailand, offer more than just a cheap drink. Then again, with dozens of scantily clad women advertising their wares from mid-morning to the early hours, this notoriously seedy strip hardly prizes subtlety.
And yet, the clients here aren’t just looking for sex – they’re longing for love.
For Hua Hin now boasts one of the fastest growing expat communities anywhere in the world – including more than 1,000 Brits – the vast majority of whom are elderly single men hoping
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