On the Road to Mandalay
October 8th 2014 Or rather, actually in Mandalay. Which doesn't resemble the idyll of Rudyard Kipling's poem much, so much as a modern, bustling and very dusty city. And then it turns out that Kipling never even made it to Mandalay anyway, so I am left rather disillusioned about the whole thing.
On first impressions, despite the plethora of motorbikes, no working traffic lights and (apparently) no traffic laws,
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