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A quick update – dateline Yangon
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
Posted in Myanmar (Burma), Travel
Tagged Bagan, Buddhism, Burma, Myanmar, temples, Yangon
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Burmese Days – Mandalay
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
Happy New Year !
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