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[wwidsith]

We have come down out of the mountains on to the flat plains of eastern Laos, travelling for ten hours in a bus full of bags of rice, loose fruit, truck tyres and what may have been a goat.  The seats were clearly designed with glee by Vietnamese manufacturers as a way of exacting revenge on any long-legged falang stupid enough to ride one.  Wedged

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[herself_nyc]

In fact in a vague way I have come to imagine the French colonial army as a vast horde of bakers, strewing mille-feuilles in their wake.

What a charming thought!