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  • Wandering Around

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    I hadn’t heard noticed initially, but my cough got a whole lot better when I got here, which might be because of air quality? Less vehicles, maybe. Anyway, the air is clearer, as are my airways. Breakfast from the place beside the hostel, where I tried an Orange Americano; Orange Juice & Unsweetened Black Iced…

  • Regretting The Night Move?

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    Yeah, that one was weak. My review of the night bus to Chiang Mai is “probably don’t”. Got into CM even earlier than I expected, at 5:30 or so, and ran into the problem that almost nothing, including the hostel reception, would be open for hours. So I did the sensible thing & sat there…

  • As Far As The Bangkok to Chiang Mai Bus

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    Probably my earliest start of Thailand today, mostly because I set an alarm to make sure I wasn’t packing in a hurry. The hostel had a very relaxed attitude to people hanging out after checkout, and a bag store, so I was able to spend a chunk of the day wandering around. At a canal…

  • Last Night In Bangkok

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    Is he referencing the musical “Chess”? Who can tell anymore? No updates for a while, because there’s not been too much to say. Bangkok, sadly, hasn’t been great. I’ve been mildly unwell, not to the point of needing a doctor but at the This Is Really Annoying level, and I’ve found Bangkok to just be…

  • Bangkok, Day 2 & 3

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    Day two could accurately be described as “Lacking Momentum”. Took me a long-ass time to transition from ‘bed’ to ‘outside’ states, and I just couldn’t quite get enough forward momentum to do much with the day. That’s OK, I think; It’s something I expected to happen at some point, and this is over a month…

  • Bangkok, Day One

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    Nothing particularly significant happened today, more or less by design. I slept in, wandered around the area to see what I could find, had breakfast at a cafe with pictures of cats on the counter … The usual. There are so many weed shops & cafes here. I tried to look up what the Thai…

  • Siem Reap to Bangkok

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    Slept fairly well, unexpectedly, up until the 5am alarm. I’d done all the packing I possibly could last night, so the morning process & final pack didn’t take very long at all. Partially because I’m getting better at it, and partially because I don’t have that much stuff. I’d arranged, by which I mean I…

  • Last Day In Siem Reap

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    I’m aware that the really image heavy posts aren’t loading properly; I’ll divide them up more, into maybe 15-20 images per post, to see if it helps, because I think it’s the number of images that’s causing WordPress some issues Another quiet day. I’m less & less sure that the coughing thing was entirely Aircon…

  • Ooof. Not A Good Day

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    Felt like I spent the night, those bits I remember waking up for, coughing my lungs out. The original plan for the day had been to rent a bike & go back out to Angkor, but that’s about 7km each way, plus whatever riding around would happen, and … That doesn’t seem like a sensible…

  • Small Day Follows Big Day

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    Yesterday was an enormous day, so today was a small one. There was an older American accented white guy in monks robes standing near the bar at breakfast, who wished me a good day & I think gave one of the staff a blessing? It was an odd moment. I did laundry. I slept in…