I suppose there’s no chance these are bed bug bites? You say you went on a train journey near the death railway. Did it have slatted wooden seats? Every train journey I went on in Sri Lanka left me riddled with itchy swellings on the backs of my thighs from creepy bugs that lived under the wood …
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