On a recent visit to Cambodia I spotted the old Hotel International Phnom Penh from my own hotel's balcony. Obviously this old girl has seen much better days and must have been an elegant hotel in its heyday. Sadly though, I couldn't locate any old photos of the Hotel International Phnom Penh in prime condition, […]

We recently took a trip to Cambodia for a break from this city and to explore the south of that country, something I’d never done before. After being there I have to ask myself why haven’t I done this before?? It was just so good. Originally we were going to travel first to Phnom Penh […]

Now I know why so much has been written about New York City. This place pulses with so much energy and life it’s staggering. Images to come when I have time, meanwhile it’s time for a Greek breakfast in Queens then back onto the subway and downtown.

Currently I’m in Vientiane in Lao where yesterday I was happy to watch as Hamish and Nang confirmed their commitment to each other in a traditional Lao ceremony.  

After experiencing record low temperatures here in Brisbane, the last 2 or 3 days have been unusually warm with temperatures 7 degrees above normal. The days were so good that I took advantage of the fact and dusted the cobwebs off my bicycle and went for a ride. I was going to do the same […]

On our recent return flight to Australia from Viet Nam we stayed over in Brunei for a few days where our friends from the Royal Brunei Police took excellent care of us. Rather than let us go on a tour to Temburong National Park they provided us with an escort and a boat to travel […]

I do like Malaysia, it has that marvellous tropical laid back feel to it and KL seems to typify that. I have to admit that arriving at about 9pm local time and finding the temperature to still be hovering around 27 degrees centigrade with extremely high humidity was a bit of a shock to the […]

Our short stay in Kuala Lumpur was, as it turned out, far too short. By the time we left S?i G?n we were simply anxious to get back to Australia and regain some sense of stability in our lives, but we discovered that KL is a marvellous city and we would like to go back […]

As promised an image of our transportation for three days touring around in Lao north of the capital Vientiane complete with customised Lao style seating arrangment for Lisa. More images later when I have some time.  

Well, here we are in Laos and we’ve done it again, just finished a 3 day motorbike trip north of the capital Vientiane. This time we hired a Honda XR 250cc Baja off road bike and it was great to have some dial on power at my disposal again not to mention “real” bump soaking […]

Friday evening Lisa, Emma and I travelled from Sai Gon and met Bianca at Bangkok International Airport, since then the three girls have been involved in a non stop shopping/looking spree. This is good because it gives me the space to chill and opt out of the whole doing the markets over scene. Although I […]

so, here I am sitting in my hotel room in Bangkok blogging away on my new (purchased 30 minutes ago) Apple Powerbook 15” laptop. Am I ever happy about this!!! Landon was going to purchase one for me while he is in the States but I couldn’t organise the payment in time and I didn’t […]

The polluted canal in the centre of Siem Reap township, Cambodia. Click on the image for a larger pop-up version