Upset tummy, AK47s, another pork overload (now temporarily vegetarian) 10:35. I definitely have a slightly delicate stomach (by which I mean bowel). Nothing restrictive, but I’m aware it could go in a direction I’m not keen on. My plan for an early walk/museum/coffee/breakfast went to plan but I got distracted when I got back to […]
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Road-crossing assistance, cat-paw chair socks, banh mi/pork overload Day 3. Monday 20 May 2024 16:15. So much for a half day out. But I’m certainly not complaining, I’m having a lovely day, which is also my birthday. I had a hot Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk at a coffee shop I sought out, Cheo Leo.
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Monsoon rain, fart flurry, Biscoff incident Day 2. Sunday 19 May 2024 20:43. I’m feeling surprisingly fine considering I spent approximately 23 hours travelling, door-to-door, to get here yesterday. I had wanted to free myself of social media and messaging/general chatty communications – I would say “digital detox” were I not using Google Maps and,
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Reclining monk rage, “Yes, I got a pig”, pens Day 1. Saturday 18 May 2024 The lights on my second plane have just dimmed. It’s 02:32 (Qatar time, 00:32 UK time) and I’m definitely ready to sleep. My seat is in the middle of four but a spare seat in the middle next to me,
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I recently followed my first ever Burmese recipe, for a lamb meatball curry, to a surprisingly successful conclusion. I had never knowingly eaten Burmese food and neither did I know much about Burma-now-Myanmar and its cuisine. The recipe listed sixteen ingredients, which is on the cusp of being too many for the likelihood of not
Japan transforms me into a hitherto unknown person who loves cute, jangly, dinky, plastic unnecessaries. Similarly, a lunch box obsession, both eating from shop-bought bento and buying packed lunch boxes, emerges and, through purchase of the latter, continues for at least a few months back home in the UK. Bento means “the useful thing” or
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