The details of my life are quite inconsequential

Back to Burma - unpublished & unfinished report

“Hey! You faaat!” 

In the early morning light, the small man at the Hlaing Thar Yar Bus Terminal in Yangon (Rangoon) looked at me with obvious envy and couldn’t resist treating me with what is considered a great compliment in Myanmar (Burma). In this country, few people are fat and those that are, are almost always either the military or the police. Fat police and a skinny populace is never a good sign.

(Yeah, sure. Okay I'm fat. Thanks Pal. Now bugger off with your compliments.)

Tour 2003 - A Burma Shave

Dear Family and Friends,

The details of my old age are quite inconsequential.  Winters in Rangoon, sailing on the Irriwaddy, hiking up Mandalay Hill....  Pretty standard stuff.  (With apologies to Austin).

My plans for this trip were quite hastily and casually made.  Not having visited before, I booked a short trip to Myanmar.  I have now spent one furious week there, trying to see in seven days a country that deserves at least one month.