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Three hours’ sleep later I staggered out to wash. The water from my new room’s sink flowed down over my feet to exit via a convenient hole in the …
In the town I met a girl I had spoken to in passing the day before a poet from Luxembourg. I stopped and had some local coffee with her …
Waiting for the return boat, Emily and I sat at a table under big flame trees by the landing and drank fresh mango juice. Emily, although of a different …
I began my way to town again and eventually arrived at Komtar, the transport centre from where I had started the day before. Close by I caught the free …
I took the bus four stops in the town direction to the surgery where I was shown immediately into the dentist’s chair. And I was out and fixed in …
At train time I took a horse cart, the local means of transport, to the station. It had poured rain for the last two hours and I had sat …
At dinner I made the fatal mistake of thinking it was a good idea to try something Western on the menu before I left. It was not. I ordered …
Maymyo, now Pyin U Lwin, was a British hill station established on the site of a small village in 1896 as a place for the colonial government administration to …