The tuk tuk driver is an optimistic creature, you’ve got to give him that. Walk out of any bar or cafe, or down the street, or out of your house, even just stand up or look like you’re going anywhere in the next ten minutes, and he is there, asking if you’d like a tuk [...]
One month in, and I have had some illusions shattered, itched a very great deal, learnt some Khmer, bought a motorbike, found a lot of crocodiles in my back garden, nearly been eaten by dogs, said hello to a lot of monks, refused approximately fifteen million tuk-tuk rides, swam nearly every day, got stuck on [...]
Ah, Nytol, my new best friend. Yesterday was a grim day after not sleeping at all the previous night, so last night I went to bed armed with Nytol, hydrocortizone cream and talcum powder. I slept like a baby. It’s incredible what good sleep can do for your perspective.
I can’t sleep. I’m sat in the kitchen typing this by the light of the laptop’s monitor. My legs have been itching like crazy – aftersun, freshly chilled from the fridge has put out the itching for the moment, but I still can’t sleep.
The window is open, mozzie grille up, and the back [...]
A walk home at night yields a cornucopia of fauna – lizards scuttle into the bushes before you, a yellow snail about four inches long was at our front gate the other night, fireflies flashed around the garden last night like drunken shooting stars, and the local dogs are always willing to announce to the [...]
Upsy-daisy, downsy-daisy. I’m having a bad day. The new motorbike and I are not getting along so well, due to my useless clutch control and nerves. Hannah and I went halves on the bike, the idea being that we can ferry each other around. Most people, I suspect, would learn to ride a bike on [...]
