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Back at the hotel - before the first of my three showers!

March 13th 2017
There'd been some light rain in the night and Monday dawned cool and bright. The only sounds to be heard from my balcony were the Laughing Doves' cooing, Rose-ringed Parakeets' shrill squawking, the click-click calling of Palm Squirrels, and the hotel's two rival roosters shepherding their hens and loudly 'cock-a-doodle-doo'ing. In the background, horns of railway trains entering and ... read more

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Mike Fossey

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Once upon a time, I was something important in the UK travel industry, where I spent more than 35 years of my working life roaming the globe at someone else's expense. So, if you dream of living overseas on less than 10 Dollars a day, be warned: I'm an experienced, mature traveller - not a backpacker. You won't find stories here about me thumbing my way across the Sahara, slumming it in cockroach-infested hostels, or sharing a room with giant mosquitoes! Oh, and I'm British - so you can expect a stiff upper lip in times of adversity and a sense of humour that's often not understood by other... full info