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Published: October 4th 2007
"- When Mao came, he took all the land from the landowners and gave it to the peasants.
- But so what happened to the landowners?
- Mao killed them all! Ah! Ah! Ah!..."
28 year old Chinese guy sitting next to us on the plane - somewhere mid-air between Xi'an and Lijiang, China
"The terracotta warriors? You mean like Terracotta Guerlain?"
Parisian teenager - Xi'an, China
"I don't want you to take it personally but have you ever tried to do something about your accent?"
Swedish girl (with a face of pity/disgust) to Nathalie - Puerto Escondido, Mexico
"You're from France, right? What are pizzas like in France because we've noticed since we've been travelling that pizzas are not the same from one country to another."
Young Swedish couple on the road to enlightenment - Xi'an, China
"Oh my god! You've lived in England 9 years!"
German dude - Nadi, Fiji
"It's a lot better since the coup. There's a lot less crime. Now, if you get caught speeding, the soldiers just shoot all your tyres out. Tyres are expensive, you know."
Taxi driver - Nadi, Fiji
"I know Delhi you know! So don't fuck up with me!"
Nathalie waving her finger at an autorickshaw driver faking the long way - Delhi, India
"I know Jaipur you know! So don't fuck up with me!"
Nathalie waving her finger at an autorickshaw driver faking the long way - Jaipur, India
… And this goes on for Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai…
"Have you seen the film ‘The last Samurai’ with Tom Cruise? Whereabout in China is it set? "
Jason - Xi’an, China
"Stop laughing and listen! This is NOT funny! Hellman’s mayonnaise is for sandwiches… or god knows what else but it’s NOT for fruit salads!"
A furious me (it’s morning after all) trying to make 3 Chinese waitresses, who could not stop laughing hysterically, come back to their senses
"If someone puts a lot of oil in your soup, it’s to show you how wealthy they are. Oil is very expensive!?"
French dude after 2 years living in China - Lijiang, China
"- So children... Has anybody understood anything of what Mother said today?
- No.
- No..."
Every morning at Deepenham School, after the 20 minutes morning concentration during which meditation music is played with the - old, gravely and incomprehensible - voice of Mother - Auroville, India
"Mexicans think that the French are arrogant. We like Americans more than the French."
Conversation with a Mexican dude - Guanajuato, Mexico
"We found out later on there’s a guide called Lonely Planet. "
2 Swedish girls after 1 month of travelling in India - Tokyo, Japan
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Emelie
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I'm so proud..
of my fellow country mens comments...:-) I love your accent Nat xxx come home now we miss you