Babolat Logo Tennis Headband

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Babolat Logo Tennis Headband

My cousin Thida wore one through three hours at Kandawgyi and arrived looking composed — this Babolat headband pulls moisture away before your brow even knows trouble is coming. It will not feel truly yours, darling, until Yangon has tested it. Have you eaten? Take something for the walk.

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Four stops before the checkout

Yangon, Myanmar
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cardiovascular tennis Lake Ridge — Babolat Logo Tennis Headband photographed at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon
Stop one

the Shwedagon Pagoda, sixty tons of gold leaf on a stupa raised over a hill

Babolat Logo Tennis Headband: Sweetheart, my cousin’s neighbor would tell you to eat first, then admire this stupa on its hill, wrapped in about sixty tons of gold leaf like somebody’s very ambitious wedding gift. Keep the headband on; all that shine is enough to make even your grandmother perspire.

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cardiovascular tennis Lake Ridge — Babolat Logo Tennis Headband photographed at the Sule Pagoda in Yangon
Stop two

the Sule Pagoda, octagonal and marooned in the middle of a traffic circle

Babolat Logo Tennis Headband: Sweetheart, look at the Sule Pagoda sitting octagonal and dignified right in the middle of a traffic circle, like my cousin refusing to move from the best chair at dinner. Wear the headband, because Yangon traffic waits for no one, not even a pagoda.

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cardiovascular tennis Lake Ridge — Babolat Logo Tennis Headband photographed at Bogyoke Aung San Market in Yangon
Stop three

the Bogyoke Aung San Market, jade and lacquer under a covered colonnade

Babolat Logo Tennis Headband: Sweetheart, at Bogyoke Aung San Market you can find jade and lacquer beneath a covered colonnade, which is exactly where my cousin would lose me while bargaining for one more “small” souvenir. Put on the headband and have a snack before you shop; grandmothers can sense low blood sugar across continents.

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cardiovascular tennis Lake Ridge — Babolat Logo Tennis Headband photographed at Kandawgyi Lake with the Karaweik in Yangon
Stop four

Kandawgyi Lake with the Karaweik, a concrete royal barge shaped like two mythical birds

Babolat Logo Tennis Headband: Sweetheart, Kandawgyi Lake shows off the Karaweik, a concrete royal barge shaped like two mythical birds, and my cousin would still ask whether it comes with lunch. Keep your headband tidy; if mythical birds are watching, we make an effort.

The Yangon, Myanmar track

Babolat Logo Tennis Headband

Written for this world alone.

Sit down a minute, dear. A headband is not jewellery, whatever they have told you. It is the thing standing between the sweat on your forehead and your ability to see a ball coming. This one is soft and light and it absorbs beautifully, and it holds without gripping your poor head all afternoon, which is the part most of them get wrong.

It is knitted from 92.7% polyamide with 6.7% elastodiene and 0.6% polyester, and it is unisex, so your cousin can borrow it and probably will.

That is genuinely all there is to say about it, and I am not going to pad it out to make you feel better about the purchase.

You will wear it everywhere from a court in real Yangon humidity to a stuffy indoor hall back home in February, and by the way, it is also perfect for a morning at the Bogyoke Aung San Market, where the jade and lacquer sit under a covered colonnade and the bargaining takes longer than anybody admits.

And do go to Shwedagon, dear, properly, not for ten minutes. Sixty tons of gold leaf on a stupa raised over a whole hill, and you walk it barefoot on marble that has been warmed all day, which is a thing you feel in your feet for hours afterwards.

Then out to Kandawgyi Lake in the evening, where the Karaweik sits on the water — a concrete royal barge shaped like two mythical birds, and it never sails anywhere, and it does not need to. Have you eaten? You cannot walk a hill on an empty stomach and I will not hear otherwise.

Get a bowl of mohinga first.

"Sixty tons of gold on that Yangon hill, dear, and you will still be thinking about the warm marble under your feet."

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