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Archive for November 2008

the situation at suvarnabhumi

Now that the sit-in at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok is out of the news, thanks to the horrifying terror blasts and siege in Mumbai, I’ve been relying on updates on the Bangkok Post, LP Thorntree and Thai Airways websites. A girl I travelled with in Cambodia is stuck in Bangkok unable to get back to [...]

you better believe it

I still can’t believe I went to New York.
It was a completely unexpected turn of events for the year. I had never been to North America, and I certainly wasn’t expecting to go anytime soon. It was my job that sent me there, and it was possibly the most exciting week of my life [...]

invisible in bangkok

Bangkok batters your senses as soon as you step from the revolving glass doors of the airport. I arrived from Sydney at six in the morning, tired, smelly and on auto-pilot. Immigration seemed to take forever, but it was only forty-five minutes that I had to stand in line, turning to glare now and then [...]

The kids of Sihanoukville

To me, Sihanoukville seemed a strange place. I enjoyed our three nights there, despite the rash on my arm that felt like it was burning a hole through my skin everytime I went out into the sun. I think the town has a lot of potential. If it was cleaned up a bit, it could [...]

balloons in a square

Quite possibly my favourite picture from Phnom Penh, if not Cambodia.

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