7 hours of travelling, not a great prospect but what a day it’s turned out to be. We travelled by mini-van up to the Thailand/Laos border, stopping along the way to break the journey, first at a cashew nut factory, where they cover cashews in a variety of coatings, sesame seed, spicy soup flavourings, etc, as well as selling strips of coconut and dried fruits. We then went to a Thai winery. We had been debating how they would grow the vines, only to discover that they didn’t bother. We tasted wines made from lychees and other fruits I’ve never even heard of! The first tasting was the lychee semi-dry white which I thought was pretty awful - when someone said the next wine, a red, tasted better than the white I collapsed in hysterics ...
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