Tag: travelblogfiction
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Xam Neua, Laos
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Early in the dry season, when the mist still hovered over the Nam Xam River at dawn, Nalin stood on the platform of the provincial bus station in Xam Neua. The morning market’s raucous energy filled the air around her: women in traditional sinh skirts sold glutinous rice wrapped in…
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Belfast, United Kingdom
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Belfast stirred awake beneath a pewter sky as dawn crept across the River Lagan. Along the Titanic Quarter’s reclaimed docks, the great yellow gantry cranes—Samson and Goliath—loomed like ancient sentinels, recalling the city’s shipbuilding heydays. Dawn’s quiet light cast long shadows over the cobbles where the RMS Titanic first took…