It has been a quite week here in many ways for me. A week of constantly reading fire updates from Australia. My old home and area of Wandiligong which is in the High country of Victoria was and is under great threat . All my friends evacuated including my ex husband who still has a firewood yard and timber stocks. Thankfully in this last fire … Continue reading I JUST WANT TO BOIL AN EGG
I have read on many blogs and travel related articles about post holiday blues. The KRWF was filled with singing the blues from rock to Indi to country, poems of blues , colours of the blue neon lights. But nobody told me about the blues I would feel when the party was over and my good friend and new friends disappeared up the highway to … Continue reading AFTERMATH AVOCADOS ORCHIDS
A short post this week as I am extremely busy with the festival and having my friend here. At the last minute Soons exhibition of her paintings was cancelled in Phnom Penh. However we managed to secure a wall in a lovely French Colonial building here in Kampot for a pop up art gallery so I am busy getting a bio together as Julien and … Continue reading BUSY BUSY BUSY
To begin I have 3 people this week remarkably asking if I am English. I have to go with the flow and not worry about my monotone neutral accent as I wrote in last week’s blog. I think I have found my niche becoming a volunteer. Honestly I do have it pretty cruisey, no hard work, no sweaty outside work, no isolation. Being the volunteer … Continue reading Volunteer or the next Bachelorette
I am in a quandary, is my true blue aussie accent becoming country neutral? Have my months on the road away from ‘she’ll be right mate’ made my accent turn to bland. Since that scammer in Bangkok thinking I was English I have had three other people thinking I am English!! One was even a cockney guy who asked what part of England was I … Continue reading LOST;ONE ACCENT, ONE TREE, ONE BOAT
After waxing lyrical about the scrumptious food I have had the privilege to taste these last few weeks The tables turned, on Saturday the girls said they had made a special dish, it was a vegetable curry/soup with the main contender being the Bitter Gourd. I know it’s name should hint at the taste but I had been quietly surprised by bananas with seeds and … Continue reading Bitter Gourd, Bitter Broad
Ladies comb your hair, put on some lipstick, gentlemen your best t shirt if you haven’t got a shirt. Lets go for a visit to the Eastern &Oriental Hotel. You may be staying in a hostel as I am but no one knows. This Grand Dame of Georgetown was built in 1885 by the Sarkie Brothers. Ring a bell, yes they were the owners, designers … Continue reading GEORGETOWN, ITS GRAND DAME.
Another travel day, due to my being an early to the airport girl I had arranged for the taxi through my accommodation to pick me up at 9 am on Sunday, even though my flight check in wasn’t until 11.30 am. I had been told traffic would be hectic being a Sunday. It had cost 200 bht more by going through the accommodation but when … Continue reading PATTAYA TO PENANG
This is a parody of Vogue’s video series of asking 73 questions to celebrities. In our version we get to know our fellow blogger better in the process. Thankyou @rachel_marcelle for nominating me. Usual Starbucks order ……..Iced Americano , What does your work station look like…… wherever I find a table to lay my laptop, my pen and my notebook. Favourite food ;…. Mango and … Continue reading 73 QUESTIONS ; VOGUE’S PARODY
The rain had stopped for a few days the Kampot river glistened in the sun , children saying hello to me ,the puppies thriving they are little fatties and mother is so good with them but I had to say farewell to all the dogs, the river and my friends old and new as it was end of my visa so here I am in … Continue reading TUK TUKS AND TRAVEL DAYS
Rubber soles open roads 