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    BEWILDERED IN BANGKOK

    Jan 14, 2022 3 minutes
    Words Lauren Dold

    Ilanded in Bangkok just before midnight on a muggy night in April. More specifically, 14 April, right in the middle of Songkran.

    ‘You go, you go!’ my driver barked at me as I stared wide-eyed at him from the back seat of his taxi. Water splashed against the windows. I could see no sign of the Green House Hostel. ‘You go!’ he shouted one more time, as I climbed out of the car and retrieved my luggage from the boot. I was there

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