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We don’t know what we miss when we miss the little things.
Ash Wednesday
As for (re)turning into dust …
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Hola from Thailand …
… very delayed hello but a hello nonetheless.
I’ve been terribly slack with my mammoths this time, mostly because internet is so much more expensive in SE Asia than it was India, in fact everything is, TAKE ME BACK my wallet is screaming at me, I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like when I have to get back to pounds, SO EXPENSIVE! I can definitely see a few scenes in a normal shop where I forget that you can’t haggle a loaf of bread down from 40p to 30, it’s just such a normal thing to do right now
Anyway I am in Thailand now and the last post was India and have since visited Singapore, Malaysia and as of today Burma and it has been incredible but so totally different to India, I’m not quite sure which I prefer.
So far we’ve found it has been a lot more catered to us, we knew India was going to be much more of a challenge but after having spent two months there we embraced it as a way of life and now the availability of almost everything and the return to civilisation makes me almost miss the chaos.
When we first arrived in Singapore from Mumbai (what a transition), we had more culture shock than we’d had for the entire trip yet. it was SO CLEAN it felt surreal, as though we’d been superimposed into a weird film with perfect grass and perfectly arranged flowers and perfectly painted buildings, so we were very glad when our taxi took us to our hostel and we found it was ironically in the area of Singapore called Little India! It made us feel slightly more as though we belonged in the place. It sounds ridiculous but after months of walking anywhere you wanted as long as you avoided the poo and cows, we found it really difficult to walk on pavements, which hadn’t really been a concept we’d experienced at all in India.
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