Not a lot to do today. Bob was working but had arranged to take a half day so that he could show me a little more of the Gulf before dropping me at the airport. I woke a little later than I intended and had some brekkie before donning my trunks and plodding down to [...]

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The plan today was simply to chill and get a good night’s sleep before Aurelie took me around Kuwait city to see the limited sights. It’s not a huge place by any stretch and construction is underway all over, though certainly not on the scale of Dubai. After a simple breakfast where Aurelie tried to [...]

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I woke early the following day to be taken around Dubai in a minibus. Breakfast was included in my “rent” and was quite passable. I’d really wanted to go to Wild Wadi, the water park, but didn’t meet anyone at the hostel to go with – until I was waiting for the minibus to arrive [...]

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And on to number 14 – Dubai, another one-night stop. You know, I’m not sure if this is a country, a state or a region. It’s one of the United Arab Emirates, a group of recently-rich oil states which are spending their money predominantly on property development to try and entice tourists in. I arrived [...]

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Dum dum dum dum dum-dum. OK, trivia time. The song came from the musical Chess written by Tim Rice and two guys from ABBA. Anyway, that’s all that Amy and I had – one night. And two long days! Yet another early morning after too little sleep and we shared a minibus to the airport [...]

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We had a little rush tour sorted for today. Our first job was to send a package back to the US for Amy, so we wolfed down breakfast and sorted out a tuk-tuk to the main post office. Just so you know, sending 5kg from Cambodia to the US costs a lot. Lucky for Amy [...]

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Today’s itinerary was to be a fairly miserable one, but something that anyone who visits Phnomh Penh should experience. Like the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, the Killing Fields at Choeung Ek and the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum should be visited by everyone. Our tuk-tuk driver took us to the Killing Fields [...]

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I woke with a jump as my alarm went off, and trotted to the bathroom to freshen up. Then I collapsed back in bed for “five more minutes”. The next thing I know I heard Amy yelling at me and realised it was 6:20 and I’d not quite made it over to her hostel to [...]

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My first task today was to walk around to the Jayavarman VII Children’s Hospital and give a bag full of the red stuff to a good cause. Back home, I’d donate every 16 weeks on the dot but since I left I’ve not had the chance to bleed into a bag. The hospital sees a [...]

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Much as I do like the Lonely Planet books on the whole, they do get a little out of date especially in countries developing as quickly as Cambodia. Prices change, infrastructures improve, new things appear. Very briefly, though – and relevant up to the date posted – here are some things that might be useful [...]

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