Life with Hilary Flockhart
A startling statement on the Lonely Planet website says that “many more people are now killed in road traffic accidents than by landmines in Cambodia”. This is due to two effects, one the continuing successful clearance of mined areas and two, the increase in the number of motorbikes and cars in the country. Continue reading “The road to hell and other places”
As I enter the last two months of my year away and contemplate a return to the West, I have started to give thanks. That sounds banal but I think that on the whole westerners don’t realise how lucky they are. Continue reading “Thanksgiving is now”
I know that I am a foreigner living and working in Cambodia but I don’t like being labelled as a tourist or being placed in the same group as the “elephant-pant-wearing-travellers”. However, in Siem Reap there are certain tourist activities that you have to do and one of them is to visit Angkor Wat Archaeological Park. Continue reading “How many Wats in Angkor Wat?”
On my travels I have been lucky enough to end up in places when they are having their big annual celebrations; October 2017 in Kolkata for Durga Puja, December 2017 in Sydney for New Year’s Eve and now April 2018 in Battambang for Khmer New Year. Continue reading “Khmer New Year”