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Nathan Nelson An apology is due for appalling performance in the blog-updating stakes of late. To sum up, I’ve been busy all day teaching English to four classes of children, giving endless piggybacks to hysterical toddlers, gone to a floating village on a river, sat in a waterfall, drunk whiskey and coke out of a bucket, nearly …
Monk, the Bayon Originally uploaded by Big Trippy Nathan. I’m in Cambodia at Siem Reap, the town nearest the temples of Angkor. Siem Reap is still a fairly simple place, but the road from the airport is lined with ever bigger and more expensive hotels, western bars and food are plentiful, and there is a …
It’s not all bad here, you know. After going on about the lack of sociable people here, and there certainly is a lack, bunch of stony-faced overtanned boring so-and-so’s, I’m finding it curiously difficult to up sticks and move on to Cambodia. This despite the non-party atmosphere and the constant state of damp sand-encrustedness I …
Evening flag waving Originally uploaded by Big Trippy Nathan. It was a relief to get out of Bangkok, a singularly unimpressive place to me. I wasn’t interested in the smut, I wasn’t out on the beers like the two young welsh lads I met in the youth hostel that made me feel like an old …
My definitive travel tip no.3 – if travelling solo, ensure you have a personal stereo stocked up with several thousand songs, and a good book, at all times. I was about to spend my second night in the hostel on my own, and wasn’t happy about this, but created the situation for myself in the …
I got into Bangkok yesterday, and have mostly been hiding in the hostel since. I’ve not warmed to it, though it’s plenty warm enough. It’s the kind of warmth that forces you to accept that you will be drenched with sweat for your entire stay, and means you can’t apply sunblock to your forehead as …
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