Category: Myanmar and Thailand 2019
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Mandalay day 2
Today was temple, palace and pagoda day. Steve and I walked along the side of the palace moat, watching large catfish and carp swimming about in the muddy waters. Some young lads caught a really large fish with a hand line. They were a bit shifty as there were signs up saying no fishing. The…
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Bangkok/Mandalay
The last time we came to Bangkok there were protests and the roads around the area we stayed in were closed. Instead of cars there were activists in tents. We didn’t realise quite how blissfully quiet that made it at the time. Roll forward 5 years and Sukhumvit feels a very different place. I’m not…
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On the Road to Mandalay
Did you know Rudyard Kipling never actually went to Mandalay? So his poem was in fact conjecture even though he does make exceedingly good cakes. We, on the other hand, are the real deal and will be physically present in Mandalay and many other Burmese places. Our motley crew of battle scarred road warriors (bit…
Middle-aged flash packers 