Burma to Bangkok to Kuwait to London to Uppsala, Sweden

On February 24th, after almost four weeks in Burma, it was time for me to leave. Having flown from Bagan to Yangon on the evening of the 23rd, I took a friend's advice to stay at the Gardens Guesthouse in order to take some night photos of the Sule Paya roundabout:






In the morning, I flew to Bangkok and returned to my hostel of choice there, Soi 1 Guesthouse. I picked up my laptop and a bunch of clothes I had left with the owner, grabbed a nice shoewr, and in the afternoon I took off en route to London via Kuwait.

A snapshot of the dorm room in Soi 1 Guesthouse in Bangkok:




Because of the time difference, I landed in Kuwait on the afternoon of February 25th. Here's a shot taken as we were coming in for landing:




I sat beside a really friendly Scottish girl who, incidentally, knows a couple I met in Mae Sot, Thailand months before. After a number of hours in the Kuwait airport chatting with the Scottish girl and watching the Japanese animated movie, "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind," on my laptop, I caught my onward flight to London.

After I arrived in London, I went for a coffee and some alone time, read a few of Checkhov's short stories, then headed to my friend Aidan's house. Aidan wasn't home, but his flatmates immediately got me involved in a fun activity: filling his room with crumpled newspapers and phone book pages. We spent a fair bit of time doing it, and would have continued if we hadn't run out of paper and run out of neighbours to ask for more paper. Aidan was slightly overwhelmed when he arrived home. Here he is, enjoying the new decor:




The next day I took a walk through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park:










I sat down on this bench to take a break and eat a sandwich, and after a while noticed the inscription in the wood:




After my long stroll, I walked over to the Museum of Natural History and spent an hour and a half checking out their interesting exhibits. I've never before been to a museum with a full dinosaur exhibit, so this place was kind of exciting for me! A few random photos from the museum:














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That afternoon I headed back to Heathrow once again, boarded an SAS flight to Stockholm Arlanda airport, caught a train to Uppsala, missed my bus even though I was ready to board, standing looking at the driver through the door, walked half an hour on ice to my old apartment, brushed my teeth, and went to sleep.