…in that the pic comes from sunset yesterday. Necessary because for the first time on this entire trip I haven’t taken a single photo today. It’s been a quiet one. The night wasn’t that quiet: we were woken in the small hours by a torrential downpour, leaving us quaking in our hut under our rush […]
…and nuthin’s plenty for us. Ho yus. Bin pretty full on ever since we arrived in Cambodia – all cities ‘n culture & no rest for the wicked, so it’s nice to find ourselves in a place where there’s really very little to do but chill. Made a heuuluva start to it last night –
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This is one of the others. We are in a proper exclusive resort tonight. Exclusive not by price or prestige, but because getting to the place demands a one mile plus schlep across the middle of an island, including the section in the pic – 10-15 minutes of rock-strewn descent which would defeat all but
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…the most striking image you’ve managed to capture is of the loo in the onsweet of your new hotel room. Then again, it is a pretty striking image. Don’t think I’ve ever had – or indeed, for that matter, even seen – a golden bog before. That aside, it’s been a pretty humdrum day. The
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We’ve one more day in Phnom Penh, and if truth be told, we’re having trouble filling it. There’s the Royal Palace of course, but the reviews are so so, it’s ten bucks a head, and from the sounds of it it’s not a patch on The Grand Palace in Bangkok, with large areas roped off,
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Set off in search of breakfast this morning, but it didn’t get off to a very good start. We couldn’t find anywhere like the kinds of places we’ve grown used to – little restaurants where locals slurp broth. We were both still feeling a bit jangled, and Virle’s cough hadn’t got much better overnight, and
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And in between, this. And more this. And more this. And seven hours on the bus to look at it, with nothing to distract from some rather downbeat ruminations. Caveats first. We’ve only seen one, very unrepresentative bit of the country. It’s a bit that’s so tourist-oriented that a degree of chiseling and cynicism is
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It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t what we’d been hoping for. Though it could have been worse. We’d been monitoring the weather, hoping for a promising day, but the forecasts were relentlessly consistent: sunny/cloudy, every day. No knowing which you’d get. But this being our last day here, we had to give it our best
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After my earlier grumbling about lack of monkeys, we’re so over it that when Virle saw a young Aussie getting excited about something in a tree, only to discover it was a monkey, she made a ‘whatever’ gesture and turned away in disdain. I wonder if I’ll feel the same way tomorrow, after day three
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Forgive the gag, but I was in poor shape when we set off in the tuk tuk this morning. Aftermath of a night spraying rusty water in the great white telephone. I said to Virle, I’m used to thinking of myself as pretty robust when it comes to coping with street food, but recent experiences
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