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Read more: 144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.
If cities were supermodels, Shanghai would be the impossibly tall, other-worldly beauty, all height, confidence and angles, with silky molasses-coloured hair, improbably bright blue eyes, flawless skin. The kind of presence you simply can’t look away from. I was struck by her scale and shine. There’s a palpable sense of pride in what’s been built.…
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54. Accommodating me.
Read more: 54. Accommodating me.This place smells. We’re staying at a place called Elephant Reach, or should that be Retch? It’s not an unbearable smell, just kind of an eu de two star that permeates the sweet jungle air. I think it’s a combination of cheap motel soap (smells the same all over the world that I can tell)…
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53. Next time I get no action for a couple of weeks, maybe I won’t call it a drought.
Read more: 53. Next time I get no action for a couple of weeks, maybe I won’t call it a drought.
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52. Does my bum look big on this?
Read more: 52. Does my bum look big on this?Today we did what you do in Sri Lanka. We went to an elephant orphanage, we rode on the back of one through the jungle and down a river bed, and we dodged the men hawking t shirts with an elephant’s bum on the front. Does someone actually buy these tshirt? I guess…
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51. This morning’s other view.
Read more: 51. This morning’s other view.
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50. Sleep is overrated.
Read more: 50. Sleep is overrated.We leave for Yala National Park in a few hours, and we arrived in the dark last night (thanks to the slow slow train). I don’t want to miss a minute of this. The view from our room, 6am, 98 Acres Hotel, Ella.
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49. Lesson on patience.
Read more: 49. Lesson on patience.Today we mostly learned about patience; a good buddhist learning this one. We had spent the evening at Nuwara Eliya at a larged rumpled dusty hotel that smelled of wood polish and disinfectant called St Andrews. We are in the heart of tea plantation country and the evidence of British settlement is everywhere. It’s odd,…
Secret Royalty On Tour 