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Panama and Colombia 2013

Malaysia Jan 2012

We are the bourgeois climate refugees! Fleeing the European winter for a trip to Singapore, Penang in Malaysia, and Koh Lipe in Thailand.

Scotland August 2011

We drove up via Cumbria/Northumbria to stay by Hadrian’s Wall, but surely the strangest part of the trip was the Lonach Highland Games. We were particularly taken by the Qualifying Heavies.

Snow tour of Britain December 2009

Yes, our famous tour of the frozen North. Winter is coming… if only we’d known.

First we went to Durham (this was before the snow) and stayed in the fantastic Victoria Inn. The snow started falling while we were in Edinburgh. Things were serious by the time we reached Aberdeenshire.

Even in the snow, Huntly Farmers’ Market was great.

There was an informal folk session at Lynn and Richard’s Christmas Party – more of this at the Tin Hut in Gartly.

Back in England it wasn’t much less snowy.  We stayed at the Mardale Inn, which features in Withnail & I, of course.

Phnom Penh Cyclo Tour March 2008

These are some photos from the cyclo tour I took in Phnom Penh in March 08 – the tour was organised by www.ka-tours.org – it ran on Sunday mornings. See the website for details – as of 2014 they are still operating. They organise architecture tours of the city, mostly visiting Modernist buildings produced by Khmer architects around/after independence, but this tour took in colonial and Chinese-diaspora buildings.

The tour was conducted by a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic architecture student from the city. As you can see, he took us to places you would never know were there, or alternatively, buildings you might walk past without noticing. Recommended.

I have created a Google Map with the locations visited and linked back to here. (Just follow the links on the names of the buildings.) I wasn’t taking notes as we went around, so the info here is from my own (fallible) memory and the handout map from the tour. The locations of some of the buildings are approximate – I’ve noted which ones. Let me know if you can give a better position for the map.

Phnom Penh: former Central Police Station/Commissariat

In the background, the former Central Police Station/Commissariat (now boarded up for development)

 

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This building used to be the Grand Hotel – it has now been partitioned into flats, and there is a restaurant on the ground floor on the corner.

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