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Things To Do In Phnom Penh With Your Mum
My mum’s tight grip on the pole of the tuk-tuk from the Pochentong airport was to be expected. I have seen it before with many a visitor and I remember my own first journey: sniffing the whiff of heat and…
French Dining In Phnom Penh: Chez Gaston
We’d been urged not to review Chez Gaston by one or two regulars who loved the place the way it was, and didn’t want it frequented by trolls. But trolls don’t eat real food, we said. They live under bridges…
My Dance with Death – Notes from a Dengue Virgin
After five years here I had escaped it long enough – it was time for a dance with dengue. It started on a random Tuesday evening. My last class is at 6:30PM – no one’s idea of late – but…
Comedy Club Cambodia December Review: Aidan Killian
It was all arranged at the last minute when comic Aidan Killian – who some reviewer had dubbed “Ireland’s answer to Bill Hicks” – visited a friend in Phnom Penh, who got in touch with Khmer 440’s resident poet Ned…
Comedy Club Cambodia with Aidan Killian @ The Doors
The Comedy Club Cambodia will host a special show this Sunday (December 16) at Doors, #18 on Street 47 & 84. Aidan Killian is Ireland’s premier political activist comedian. Spirited and unique, he combines prodigious onstage charisma and a rakish…
Sixty-Nine’s Running Time
When we went to collect our bibs the day before the Angkor Wat 2012 Half Marathon, I felt that it was nothing but a good omen that I was lucky number 69. I would need some luck. I couldn’t stand…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat: Waking Up (The End)
So about three months into our relationship the increasingly frequent and bizarre episodes that would befall my beloved, all of which required remuneration to resolve, suddenly made sense. She had been concealing a sickness from me – an addiction. Having…
Good Cars for Cambodia Expats #3: Daewoo Matiz v Hyundai Atoz/Visto
Price Range: $2000 – $4000 If you have had one bike accident too many, seen your family grow or are simply looking to get out of the sun and rain, the Daewoo Matiz or Hyundai Atoz/Visto (the Visto is a…
Rude Food In Phnom Penh’s ‘Noodle Alley’
The worst service I ever had was in London’s Chinatown. There was a cloudburst and then heavy rain so I scurried into one of the restaurants. The place was packed, and I was looking round trying to spot a table,…
Phnom Penh: It’s All About The River
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Phnom Penh is no gigantic metropolis, no sprawling mega-city, no endless urban expanse. Yet still it manages to be an incomprehensible orderly riot of humanity: ugly surprises, elegant demises, fitting fates for all sizes. No easy answers, no succinct demography,…