From the monthly archives: April 2008

Up and round and up and down again

On April 30 2008 · 2 Comments · In Cambodia, Diary, Travel

Dave and I left Siem Reap on Friday afternoon to head for Northwestern Cambodia and the Thai border – a loop taking in Anlong Veng, Preah Vihear, and then back down to Siem Reap via Koh Ker. The entire trip was just over 550km, not exactly the Motorcycle Diaries, but still an arse-numbingly long distance in two [...]

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Ghost town

On April 15 2008 · 1 Comment · In Cambodia, Diary

Siem Reap’s a ghost town while everyone’s on their New Year holidays – they’ve all gone to Sihanoukville, Phnom Kulen, Kabal Spien and various other holy spots and party spots. About twenty Cambodians arrived at the guest house last night and piled into two rooms between the lot of them – must have been playing [...]

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Mumbo jumbo

On April 13 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

A regime of accumulation, it has to be said, ‘describes the stablization over a long period of the allocation of the net product between the transformation of the conditions of both the conditions of production and the conditions of reproduction of wage-earners’.

What?

This OU course is very interesting, but sometimes I’m not sure if [...]

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New Year approaches

On April 11 2008 · 4 Comments · In Cambodia, Diary

Damned unreliable memory. I heard something really funny last night and I was going to blog about it but it’s gone.

One thing that happens when you’ve been here a little while, tourists approach you and ask you questions about Cambodia. Might be to do with having a telephone conversation with a mate and getting [...]

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