Lao Saunas
Laos wouldn’t seem the most obvious place for a sauna, particularly not in the lowlands, during dry season, but after a pedicure from doctor fish...
Category: Travel Lifestyle
On Laundry
So this rather hot Kiwi chap in his 30s hit on me in the hotel last night. Obviously, I completely failed to register it until...
You are Nine, Going on Nineteen
So Z got dumped by his girlfriend. Or did he? It came up the first time in a moment of anxiety atop a sand dune...
Ladybird Hats
In South-East Asia, we’ve been spending a lot of time on the back of bikes. Call them motos, xe om or motorbike taxis, they’re generally...
Doctor Fish
Downtown Siem Reap, your starter for ten for the glories of the Angkor era, is tacky as hell. Yet, while a banner boasting “the most...
Why Do Flies Have Eyes?
I’ve been wondering why we spent so much time in Kampot. It’s a lovely provincial capital, set around a river, with the beginnings of a...
Lotus Seeds
When someone you have never met in a country you have never visited gives your child and you a present and wants nothing in return...
Scampering Lunches and Fresh Coconut Milk
So… Will we regret starting out in Thailand? The food, even before we head to the south and the north, is phenomenal, and Z is...
It's not the Destination, it's the Journey: on Trucks and Stuff…
Z, being male and nine years old, actively enjoys the experience of moving from place to place. He did when he was little. But people...
Mains Electricity: a Good Thing, Clearly…
So the theoretical immediacy of this medium has been slightly kiboshed by the near-total absence of electricity and mobile reception in our first tropical idyll,...