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Category - Cambodia

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Drinking at Bodhi Villa Kampot

November 3
by Tom Spooner
3 min read

There are only a few of us who have drunk through the tedium that tends to settle in around 4 am on a prolonged drinking session: the boredom that descends when every form of alcohol tastes more and more like water or poison...

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siem-reap to battambang boat trip
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Siem Reap to Battambang by Boat – Broken in Cambodia

December 22
by Tom Spooner
8 min read

I have a golden rule when travelling and that is to never undertake a journey drunk or hungover. In Cambodia, and many other countries, there’s every chance that your journey could take several times the quoted time. It is...

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Tom and Jerry Cartoons and Cambodian Street Children

December 19
by Tom Spooner
3 min read

There are a lot of children in Cambodia. 40% of the population is under 15 years old. For many reasons this is exciting: youth brings energy, hope, and the potential to move on from a past however bleak it may be. Sadly though...

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Bieber in the Bodge: Cambodian Karaoke and Other Nonsense

September 4
by Tom Spooner
2 min read

Who is this preened pretty boy? And what is he doing in Cambodia? You can see Justin Bieber’s baby-faced features crudely painted on wooden signs outside barber’s shacks in far-flung Cambodian frontier towns and hear...

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