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By five in the afernoon we were at Georgetown, the capital of Penang Island. The bridge crossing had been a breeze and I marvelled at the engineering feat that …
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 …
That evening, collected and delivered to the wharf, I was welcomed onto the Buxstar again. The captain, who was going on leave, was handing the ship over to a …
By the time I left him the taxi driver and I had spent two hours together. Unusually for Burma he had a fair command of English and we had …
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 …
A day later I boarded the train to the south, very glad to leave Bangkok, especially Kao San Street the tourists there were mostly an embarrassment. I had bought …