… have sustained us through many a long bus ride in the back of beyond when food was short. Amazingly, they are cheaply available throughout Laos and Vietnam and now, as Oreo connoisseurs, we rank them: dark chocolate filling, white (they rank first equal), strawberry, ice-cream (much anticipated but ultimately disappointing), peanut butter (scrape it off). We are going cold turkey in Cambodia – an Oreo drought here.
On the up side, there seems to be less smoking in Cambodia, and definitely less honking of horns – both are continuous and quite overwhelming in Vietnam and Laos. Sadly, what all three countries have in common however is endless amounts of plastic rubbish strewn on the sides of roads, in fields, on hill sides, on the sea bed ….
Something else that has kept us going: endless games of Oh Hell!, a card game vaguely resembling 500 that my grandmother taught my mother, she me, and me our kids. I know mum will be pleased to read this!
– Annie
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