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AWOL.COM/Alice Edwards’ Travel Blog
1 July – 10.23 a.m.
Too much fun to post properly. Just know that me, Eva and Clara are about to be trapped on a boat together for two days. Taking bets on who goes overboard first?
Axx
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COMMENTS:
Hollie Baker
|Oh noooo! Please don’t fall in! Lol!!
Kirpa Saul
|Put me down for a tenner on athree-way tie.
Sarah Sommers
Replying to Kirpa Saul
|Lol,three-way tie sounds hot.
Ayo Damiunse
|You. For sure.
Karen Gill
|Finally we’re going to get a death out of this trip. Took you long enough. Mammy says she’ll chip in for a wreath.
Alice Edwards
Replying to Karen Gill
|That is so very generous, please tell her thank you.
‘Do you think they have alcohol around here somewhere?’ Clarastage-whispers, leaning heavily across the laps of afrightened-looking family of tourists wearing large, shapeless anoraks.
I look around the small boat at the twenty or so other passengers – none of them drinking – and shrug.
‘Surely they do!’ Eva says enthusiasticallyfrom four seats down.
I give her a thumbs up and she adds anxiously, ‘Do you think I’d be allowed a sip of a Mai Tai?’
We were a bit late arriving at the dock this morning for ourtwo-day trip along the Mekong river. We only just made it on board before it set sail, and so the three of us had to grab three separate seats only vaguely near each other.
A youngish boy in his late teenspipes up in a Polish accent from our right. ‘They do have drinks for sale here, but I do not think they have got a cocktail. And there definitely will not be any fancy Mai Tai cocktails.’ He sniggers and Eva blushes as Clara leaps up.
‘Great news. I’ll go find the bar,’ she squeals, disappearing off towards the other side of the boat. She treads on the teen boy’s foot on her way past, andhe winces. I wonder if it was an accident or payback for mocking Eva.
Clara returns with two plastic cups of very yellow wine, and one coke, handing the last to Eva with a sympathetic look on her face. The wine is bound to be disgusting, but better than not drinking on a boat ride, right? I know it’s not actually a booze cruise, but still, the beauty of nature is that much more beautiful viewedfrom the other side of a large yellow wine.
Apparently unfazed by the foot stomping, the teen boy reaches out to shake Clara’s hand as she sits. ‘I’m Jan, and this is Jakub,’ he says, gesturing at anothersullen-looking teenager on his right, who does not look up from his phone.
