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Category Archives: creative writing
Singapore Part 2: nature and Nationhood
What do National Celebrations tell you about a country? Its confidence? Its personality? There is a danger in stereotyping. In the UK we don’t do National Days. Partly our aggrandizing past has embedded an embarrassment that makes such an event … Continue reading
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Tagged national day, nature reserve, Pulau ubin, short story, singapore
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Cambodia Day 6: Of Palaces, Picnics and Museum Pieces
Today was sweltering. An early start to the Royal Palace was decreed. If Buckingham Palace and a Swiss Chalet hybridised and moved to Essex this is what you might get. This though is French, built in the 1880s when under … Continue reading
Cambodia Day 5: moving times
Seim Reap is now behind us and we are in the capital, Phnom Penh, named after the mother of the city, Madame Penh. Don’t you love the egalitarian nature of that fact? Travelling by air across Cambodia brings home just … Continue reading
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Cambodia Day 4: of sandstone, sunrise and sculpture
Today I’m going to shut up and let the images take over for a while. Okay, this is a tourist must and a 4.30 alarm call isn’t everyone’s cuppa. And if I was being really churlish I’d say it’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Angkor vat, banreay srie, cambodia, sunrise
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Cambodia Day 3: temples, tempura and terrifying transport
One of my old saws with my kids is to embrace experiences not stuff. So deeply ingrained is it that I can hardly be surprised when the Vet announced she had booked us all on a Cambodian cooking course on … Continue reading
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Tagged cambodia, cooking, humour, Ta prohibition
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Cambodia Tales, Day 2: glorious boating weather
Today’s pictures are from the villages adjacent to, and Lake Tonle Sap itself I’m not sure when I saw my first house boat – probably in 1978 when I moved into a flat next to the Lots Road power … Continue reading
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Tagged boat homes, cambodia, floating villages, Mekong
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Cambodia Tales Day 1: silk and scenery
We are in Cambodia. Today we visited the vast Angkor Thom complex with its mix of temples and palaces, incorporating Buddhist and Hindu influences and stunning sights. I’m blown away when I think this was all being built while the … Continue reading
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Tagged Angkor Thom, cambodia, Khmer Rouge, prince Sihanouk, Siam Reap, silk weaving, Silk worms, singapore, thoughts
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