It is evening under Saigon’s pinkish skies. Motorcycles course through the crowded streets like white blood cells rushing along veins to fight infection. For a constant angry swarm that threatens to tear you into ugly...
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Halong City HighwayA man hovers over the body of another man’s in a roadside building. Perhaps a victim of the motorcycle madness that is Vietnam’s forte – it’s impossible to tell from the two small feet...
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...
He had filled the MP3 Player with songs she liked. In truth, he did not like these songs but it was her surprise party and he wanted the music playing to be songs she liked. He resisted the urge to add songs that he liked, that...
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...
I like South East Asian Border Crossings. I would recommend them to anyone. If South East Asian Border Crossings had a Facebook page, I would consider becoming a Fan. There’s something endlessly exhilarating about running...
It’s been raining continuously since I arrived in Hoi An. The river threatens at any moment to burst its banks; the market is several inches deep in water, vegetable detritus and fish guts swim freely in it, and puddles...
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...
I went to Teignmouth in Devon on holiday. I visited the pier and here is what I saw.
A section of my travel journal was published in the Observer on Sunday as part of the Escape review of 2008. Here it is: Seeing the Invisible – Learning to Surf in Queensland The long-haired man who runs the surf school is...