12 TRAVEL TIPS,12 PROS, 12 CONS 12 MONTHS SOLO TRAVELLING S.E.ASIA
WOW 12 months ,as a solo mature female traveller, what have I learnt, what my negatives are, what my positives are. Before you travel you must be tolerant, resilient, patient, adaptable, respectful. 12 TIPS. I have learnt to say hello, , thankyou, goodbye, and yes/ no. in 4 languages. I have forgotten them once I leave the country but they were ice breakers, they showed … Continue reading 12 TRAVEL TIPS,12 PROS, 12 CONS 12 MONTHS SOLO TRAVELLING S.E.ASIA
AFTERMATH AVOCADOS ORCHIDS
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
FESTIVAL FANTASTIC KRWF 2019.
Lets start with the programme it was of spoken word ,singing voices, whispering poets and rocknrollblues. Wednesday night the tour bus from Phnom Penh arrived bringing with it Julien, Captain Future and the jams and Toldog, both from the UK. After a bit of naan and dahl from the Indian restaurant next door we all chatted about the upcoming festival, its speak easy theme, low … Continue reading FESTIVAL FANTASTIC KRWF 2019.
BUSY BUSY BUSY
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
An Australian in Cambodia
As I write this today my heart is in my homeland as fires rage and rivers are dry. I love a sunburnt country a land of sweeping plains. My first memory of bush fires are of my father telling us stories of the first Black Friday in 1938. He had helped with fighting these fires , I remembered seeing photos of burnt out bush with … Continue reading An Australian in Cambodia
KAMPOT COLOUR MY WORLD
After raving last week about how easy I have got it here in my volunteering the very next day Soon asked if I could come and help on Fish Island. So with water, hat, lipstick I tuk tuked out there. Its about a 7 km from here in Kampot , I set off at around 8.30 .To get to Fish Island you have to cross … Continue reading KAMPOT COLOUR MY WORLD
Volunteer or the next Bachelorette
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
LOST;ONE ACCENT, ONE TREE, ONE BOAT
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
BANGKOK WAS I SCAMMED?
Where did I stay; I had stayed at the Paragon 1 residences previously and found the price right, position great and rooms clean and comfortable and a free breakfast. For $31 Aust per night , a 10 minute walk to Khao San Rd it is a good find. They have washing machine in the lobby area, good cable tv and an elevator. It is off … Continue reading BANGKOK WAS I SCAMMED?
Bitter Gourd, Bitter Broad
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
Rubber soles open roads 