Afternoon Stroll, Phnom Penh
August 23rd, 2014 — 10:14am
Archive for August 2014
Soup Seller, Phnom Penh
August 23rd, 2014 — 7:31am
A soup seller with her earthenware pot wrapped in lotus leaves sitting in a side street waiting for customers.
Lao and Vietnamese Food
August 22nd, 2014 — 4:50am
Lao food gets a bad press, and I think it’s undeserved. Granted, the competition from neighbouring Thailand and Vietnam is stiff but there’s certainly plenty of delicious and interesting food worth discovering in landlocked Laos. Unfortunately the restaurant scene hasn’t really developed and until relatively recently very few people went out to eat. Most of
A Journey of Remembrance
August 21st, 2014 — 8:13am
The history of Australia and Thailand are inextricably linked by one of the darkest moments of World War II, the construction of the infamous Thai-Burma Railway. Just before dusk in the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi, hoards of day trippers pose for photographs at the Bridge on the River Kwai. Others wait patiently for night to
Eat Local
August 21st, 2014 — 5:51am
I love my neighbourhood. I have a choice of half a dozen fresh markets in the immediate area and many more if I care to travel just a little further. Every day around 5:30 I take a stroll down to one of them and make the difficult decision of what to buy for my
Thailand’s Forgotten Heritage
August 20th, 2014 — 12:07pm
Nakhom Phanom is a lovely little town pushed up against the Mekong in Thailand’s upper northeast and opposite the equally characterful Tha Kaek on the Lao side of the river. Although I have been to Tha Kaek many times in the last few years, it is almost two decades since I visited Nakhon Phanom.
Bangkok Chinatown Noodles
August 18th, 2014 — 7:04am
I had a wander around Bangkok’s Chinatown yesterday and captured this familiar street scene.