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Money

19, Oct 2008

Ironically when I’m totally skint I’m framing money – various notes collected over travels of the past few years.

Back

8, Aug 2008

I’m going cold turkey from heat and mosquito bites and mango shakes and noise and Anchor beer and moronic TV on AXN near-drowned out by ceiling fans and riding a rickety motorbike and being laughed at by Khmers all day every day and having my belly prodded and being asked when I’m going to have [...]

Bye bye

1, Aug 2008

With 24 hours left in Cambodia I’m just getting round to sorting out my possessions into stuff I can take back with me (about 20%), stuff to give away (about 20%), and crap which needs to be thrown away and/or burnt (about 60%, and that’s probably a conservative estimate). When I came to Cambodia part [...]

Up and round and up and down again

30, Apr 2008

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 [...]

Return to the Reap

18, Feb 2008

Bad sleep, a rubbish shower, permanently dirty feet, inbred lunatic dogs tearing chunks out of each other and being laughed at by strangers on motorbikes. Yep. I must be back in Siem Reap.
I watched Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia this morning because I couldn’t sleep – it’s a documentary filmed by John Pilger [...]


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