Jan Ford's World

Events of Tuesday, 3rd May 2016 I had breakfast at the Aye Yar Resort and checked-out at 8.00 a.m. The monastery car picked me up with th...

Events of Monday, 2nd May 2016 On Monday, my last day in Bagan, the Monastery Compound housing Bagan Medical Clinic was strangely quiet a...

Events of Sunday, 1st May 2016 On Sunday, I walked to the Clinic just after 8.00 a.m. The Doctor had already started work and he hold me ...

Disclaimer Judged by Western standards, my reporting at the Clinic may seem intrusive, with access to the Doctor's Consulting Room du...

Events of Saturday, 30th April 2016 I was booked into the Aye Yar River View Resort for our four days in Bagan. For me, this location has...

Introduction I first visited Bagan in 2008, as just one destination on the trip Round the World Five . The dusty Plain of Bagan has the...

Thursday, 28th April 2016 Just a quick note to confirm I'm safely back in Yangon after an amazing six days touring a few of the Mergu...

In the article Rangoon Tramways , I posted a brief introduction to the electric tram system which once served Rangoon. Electric trams are ...

Events of Wednesday, 20th April 2016 In earlier posts, I've described three hectic days in Mon State. At the end of the third day, we...

Events of Wednesday, 20th April 2016 Once again, we were up early and, having said goodbye to some of the young Ko Dut D.I.C. staff, we d...

Events of Tuesday, 19th April 2016 I was a little restored by morning but I knew it would be a tiring day making presentations to the chi...

On Sunday 17th April 2016 I wrote "I may be out of touch for a time whilst travelling in Mon State, Myanmar, but despatches will resum...

"Would you like to go with my wife and I to the Shwedagon on Sunday morning?" asked the Doctor "We will leave at 4.00 a.m....

Events of Saturday, 16th April 2016 The Doctor invited me to join him and his wife on an early morning constitutional. We left, by car, j...

Events of Friday, 15th April 2016 The Doctor said that we would visit a pagoda on an island to the south of Yangon. The Doctor, his wife ...

Introduction A number of Asian countries celebrate the New Year with Water Festivals, where the throwing of water symbolises the washing-...

Introduction Little did I realise, on my first visit to Burma in 2008 described in a few posts forming part of my record of the trip Roun...

My first driving turn at the Battlefield Line in 2016 was on Sunday, 3rd April when Dave H. and I ran five service trains to Shenton with ...

In the previous post in this series Gough Island , I described our Zodiac cruise off Gough Island. We then had a voyage of around 1,500 mil...