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Myanmar

Myanmar Land of Thousand Pagodas Part 1: Yangon I looked out the window of the plane at the plain under the ragged clouds and wondered where we were even going to land. During the descent towards the airport, it appeared that the ground was riddled with water capillaries. Wherever there was even a bit of a riverbed, a lower part of the field, it was flooded with muddy brown water that spilled out in all directions. The meanders said that there was a broad plain below. I knew that I was coming to the country in the monsoon season, but

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Feldban – military narrow-gauge railway Logatec-Črni Vrh-Idrija 1916-1917

Feldban Military narrow-gauge railway Logatec-Črni Vrh-Idrija 1916-1917 Returning from “brnjav” »Words dont hurt. We will ask. If the accompanying soldiers will allow us to pile onto full wagons, we will not refuse such kindness. Not in any way and at any cost. So we were lucky and blessed to ride the first and last railway that ever connected Idrija with the outside world. The iron road was narrow-gauge, and small wagons, “hunts” as we call them, moved along it, and they were pulled by an equally small gasoline locomotive. The train did not have a prescribed timetable, nor stations and

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Melhiorca

Melhiorca Female mercury smuggler No one knew how old she was. She probably wasn’t quite sure about her age either. A pedlar from Šebrelje lived with her youngest son Florjan. What she managed to grow in the field, she wore in a vivid color bag, sewn from patches of various pieces of cloth, to sell in Idrija. With the earnings she was purchasing Idrija lace and reselling it elsewhere.    She was talkative, less reserved people would call her sassy. With sophisticated chattering she managed to sell some lace or some carrots well. From constantly wearing the bundle on her back,

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