Category Archives: Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Duck
Just like the etched design on the plate glass windows, this excellent new restaurant has all its ducks in a row. Less than a month after opening its doors in Phnom Penh, Duck is delivering an experience that’s hard to…
Sequins, Spangles and Sweaters: The Return of Glamazon
Sequins, spangles and sweaters: The Return of Glamazon (or, Not Your Usual Thursday Night Out in Phnom Penh) It was a night of stilettos, glitter and feathers. There were men who looked like girls and girls who looked like men….
All Out of (Cooking) Gas
While popping a batch of popcorn for a lunchtime snack and with a dinner party at our home only hours away, I make the startling discovery that we were really, really low on propane. As in,almost completely out of gas….
3 Reasons to Quit Cambodia with Zero Notice via Dumping a Beer on Your Bosses’ Head
Easy come? Easy go? Keep a bag packed. You never know. Should you stay? Should you go? Prayers go unanswered by old St. Joe. First, let me preface my ridiculous rhyming by saying that things in life are never so…
Growing Up as a French Teenager in Phnom Penh
Here is a brief insight on my life and of my few years as a troubled teenager in Cambodia, for whoever might give a damn and be patient enough to read the cluttered product of a foggy mind. Yes, I…
Comedy Cambodia at Pontoon: March Review
It’s all too easy to blame outside influences when things are not quite going to plan, even though those outside influences may actually be to blame. Sometimes, outside influences can be so glaringly apparent that they can’t be ignored. What…
Wedding Preparations, Visa Applications and these Giant Walls of Human Creations
Right now, my email inbox is a cheery and eclectic mix of correspondence with Gay, the vicar of the tiny round church which will be our UK wedding venue, Michelle from rentapartytent.co.uk, Stu from the farm-shop who will be doing…
March Comedy Club Cambodia at Pontoon
The Comedy Club Cambodia is back doing what it does best, inducing a lethal amount of laughter to the Phnom Penh community with its international stand up show at Pontoon Club on Wednesday March 20. Two top professional comics will…
A Rotten Fish Pong In Battambang
I hired a crap bicycle that kept losing a pedal and went in search of what I’d been told was one of the smelliest places in the world – Cambodia’s prahok-making hub, Phsar Prahok, on the banks of the Sangker…
Am I Wrong to Secretly Wish For A Chair Fight?
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I teach two grades – grade six and kindergarten one. Whilst the kindergarten class keep me on my toes with their brilliantly un-developed sense of acceptable behaviour, my sixth grade class sometimes leaves me feeling a little flat. It is…