Gayadas de Caliman13: Retiro Rosado.

Travel.

Good start at the first gay residence
for senior citizens in Pattaya
By Armin Grebe, Pattaya
Published: Issue of May, 2008.

If you want to try it, you now get 35% discount

After we moved into our residence beginning of February we made many smaller and bigger changes and redecorated things. During our trip to Chiang Mai we bought many decorative items and additional furniture, so now every studio has its own character and distinct color. Khun Rewat, our new staff member, who speaks English and German well, took active part in our many endeavors. Presently he lives here too, in order to water the garden before sunset and preparing breakfast for our guests.

Because of his side job as gardener, Rewat has bought a special hat to protect him from the sun. The color of his hat is pink, of course. He now walks proudly through our garden and watches his successes in gardening.

In the mean time the first visitors have arrived for a trial period. First came an elderly gay man from Germany who is married for thirty years. He came with his wife who cannot travel alone anymore after undergoing several head surgeries. Both enjoyed their time here and relaxed completely. They were happy to have found a possibility to spend time in Thailand in a friendly and careing environment, where they had nothing to worry about. They preferred that to an anonymous stay at an impersonal hotel.

They liked very much to take a nude swim early morning and they mostly did the same again after sunset. We even could convince them to take up excursions around Pattaya. Rewat even took them out to Boyztown, a venture the lady would not have dared taking up alone being feeble and she was not at all jealous when the husband naturally had some additional fun that night.

They took much advantage of our driving services and appreciated the German speaking companion since both of them spoke hardly any English.

As next visitor we had an elderly gay man who lives in Thailand for a long time already. He is in ill health after several operations and a stroke and can hardly live alone any longer. He has an unreliable houseboy who constantly is after his money but delivers little care. Rewat looked after him very well. The guest suffered of sleeplessness caused by anxiety, he does not feel secure in his house alone any longer.

The third night here he slept right through after we had convinced him not to drink a liter of milk before going to bed which is certainly not good for health and not good for his weight, too.

He enjoyed his first cup of tea in the pool before breakfast and loved watching two humming birds taking over an abandoned nest and changing it for their needs. And he also fed the night guard, Nicknoy, the baby cat.

Staying with us he got to know a seventy year old lesbian who had fled Pattaya during the water battles of Songkran. They befriended each other, spent a lot of time together and will stay in touch even after their departure. To the dinners Rewat never appeared without having put on fresh powder on his face. Whole life stories were exchanged after dinner, we played games or just enjoyed a glass of wine, the casual and amicable meetings often lasted till midnight. Rewat ended the day mostly by taking up another swim. We tried hard to change his strange swimming method, but he felt his way (like a dog) was far superior to ours (like frogs). After that remark of his all the farangs tried his method, but went under.

In the mornings our guests took up a lot of activities. One took his swim in the pool, there were discussions where breakfast should be served, either on the terrace, the Club House or on our lake beach. Our female guest watered the garden before sunrise together with Rewat and cut lovingly some flowers in the garden; as a former florist she knew exactly what she was doing and decorated all of our rooms with flowers. Rewat feared, she would undo all his planting endeavors in the garden.

At night Nicknoy could be convinced to sleep in her bed, so she proudly announced next morning that she did not have had to sleep alone again. While our guests stayed with us we often had interested visitors who wanted to get to know us and our project. We surely had an entertaining and interesting starting up phase. And, when our first guest finally left, we felt a bit sad, too.

After a long preparation period our project for a gay residence for the elderly has taken off well. To celebrate this we will give discounts of 35 % for people interested in trial periods with us. Hopefully, we can welcome you with us soon.

Warm welcome, Armin Grebe und Juergen Diederichs, Gaydreamresidence Morning Cloud, Huay Yai, Thailand