Tag Archives: Burma

A quick update – dateline Yangon

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Mike

To repeat a Kipling quote from my last post, This is Burma, and it is quite unlike any place you know about I am in Yangon now, where the Internet is slightly above snail pace, so time for an update … Continue reading →

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Burmese Days – Mandalay

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Mike

It is a rather disagreeable town-it is dusty and intolerably hot,and is said to have five main products beginning with P,namely, pagodas, pariahs, pigs, priests and prostitutes. So said George Orwell of Mandalay (in his early novel Burmese Days) ,when … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year !

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Mike

  สุขสันต์วันปีใหม่   Suk san wan pee mai  2558, or Happy New Year’s Day for the year BE 2558 on Thailand’s Buddhist era calendar. I barely made it to midnight last night, I was having a couple of very quiet drinks … Continue reading →

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