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Messing About in Boats – Part 1
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 17 March 2010
They don’t call Si Phan Don Four Thousand Islands for nothing. At this time of year, with the Mekong nine or ten feet below its monsoon peak, this jade-green archipelago in the deepest south of Laos is, as Z observed, more like Four Million Islands than Four Thousand, and all the more beautiful for it. Our [...]
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Winged Creatures
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 13 March 2010
When it comes to bugs, even European ones, let alone rattling, flying, two-inch-long South-East Asian roach-type creatures which convention insists one refer to as “beetles”, I have never been terribly good at being the grown-up. At our idyllic, wood-framed guesthouse on idyllic Don Khong, one of Laos’ Four Thousand Islands, floating in utter tranquility on [...]
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