A French Quarter on the Mekong
April 16th 2010 I took a sleeper train from Bangkok to Vientiane, the capitol of Laos, on my birthday, March 21st. I awoke in the morning and left my second-class car, where the seats are converted into beds during the night, in search of the food car for some coffee. Walking thru the third-class cabin where the common Thai people sit on hard wooden benches and try to sleep sitting up, Red Shirts took up the ma
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