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From 10,000 hellos to one final goodbye!
A defining feature of our whole trip has been the way in which people along the roadsides have responded to to us hurtling (or often, meandering) past. This is particularly the case with kids. In Thailand, perhaps due to having a higher number of foreigners, or falang, most do not really react although we do hear a couple of shouts and certainly when we stop at a roadside eatery people are more interested and will often engage in conversation - usually to find out where we are from and what ...
Queues, boats and barbacues
... that was the issue. We were dropped at the Cambodia/Thailand boader at around 11am. We queued for our departure stamp on the Cambodian side in a very Un-English way; no formal lanes/good manners/organisation, but on the whole it wasn't too bad and we were through in around 20 minutes. Having spent 8 weeks in this region we had learnt the art of strategical queue manouvering and put our talent to good use. The variables to be assessed are: speed of queue ...
Man on Fire
... embarking a tired, slow ferry we are ushered to a sparkling white speedboat. At first we are skeptical and assume that we will be stung for an additional fee, but once we have been assured this is not the case, we happily climb aboard, all feeling this is where we truly belong. However, it takes about a minute of being bumped and thrown around at high speed to realise this is not the suave, elegant way to travel it may appear in the movies and in the Monte Carlo crowd, ...
Life's A Beach
... of all, many of the performers were just kids - as young as ten! I'm sure they were breaking all kinds of child labor laws, but those kids were incredible! Imagine a ten year old rotating a flaming hula hoop around his neck! We watched them do back flips and stand on each others shoulders, breath fire out of their mouths, and take the show out into the dark ocean. At some points, they would even attach sparkling fireworks to their batons and toss those around! It was ...
Island Life
... me in the eye like I was worse and started talking to one of his mates who looked at me and laughed. It wasn’t a nice laugh. I knew that I shouldn’t give a **** but I was drunk and my first instinct was to slap him. Luckily my second instinct was not to get a kicking from ten Thai’s in a Thai club in front of a girl who I fancied. I just grinned my biggest grin and wandered off to the dance floor again. I was expecting Yah Tee to come over and dance again but somehow ...
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