Padded coach, conversing via Google Translate, dinner with President Obama (ish) Day 11. Tuesday 28 May 2024 [No day 10 entry due to being on a coach all day and being knackered that evening and not wanting to write while sitting on a rock-hard mattress] I’m sitting in Si Coffee Stories, a coffee shop in […]
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Cockroach, funny turn, FOMO Day 9. Sunday 26 May 2024 It’s 08:27 and I’m already very sweaty. Plus, this very white café, called The Lab, is very hot and the air conditioning is not on. I got in to Huế at about 15:00 yesterday. The train station was busy with taxi touts. I ignored everyone
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Train: replacement bus, the dreaded loo, intermittent air con, food trolley, fellow passengers Day 8. Saturday 25 May 2024 I may have expressed some misguided enthusiasm for this train journey. All enthusiasm has melted into a pool of sweat. It’s been almost 21 hours, and another two-and-three-quarter hours or so remaining. One train has been
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Yuzu ice cream, charcoal matcha croissant, dinner trolley on the train Day 7. Friday 24 May 2024 I finally finished Really Good, Actually. The character became a much more pleasant and relatable person but I never felt a consistency with her, though I know it’s a book about her bad year in the aftermath of
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Bespoke coffee, French bull dog guards, pedestrian/train travel/cash anxiety Day 6. Thursday 23 May 2024 I’m in what in the UK would be a very busy, very Instagrammy café, Cà Phê X, with more than a suggestion of pretension. I knew a bit about the concept before I came to this particular café so I
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Death-defying road crossing, chihuahua in a t-shirt, failing to buy a stamp in a post office Day 5. Wednesday 22 May 2024 I have a pen problem. I can’t stop myself buying them. This latest one (which is disappointingly unappreciateable [so not a word according to Word, but it is according to my handwritten version]
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