eat, drink, travel, repeat
Four and a half years ago we were attempting to save our meagre incomes (save them from the pub that is) and selling our frankly crap possessions in yard sales, with the idea of leaving Australia and doing “something exciting, somewhere else”. It was a vague plan and when pressed for details, at work events […]
Kambol Kart Raceway on the outskirts of Phnom Penh – its as close to MarioKart as I’m ever likely to get. As you can see – we start off pretty slow, but those lines get tighter and speeds faster as the day progresses. It sure felt fast anyway. It’s taken a bit of nagging from […]
When people told us that Phnom Penh gets really hot in March and April, I thought, “So what, its always hot in Cambodia?”. But now we understand what they were talking about. Its May, and the rains are starting to return to the city – washing away 5 months of thick red dust and soot […]
We decided to get out of tour and do a bicycle tour of some of the islands along the Mekong river near Phnom Penh. I’d almost forgotten we had done something very similar almost a year ago – cycling from island to island along the Mekong in Si Phan Don (4000 islands) in Laos. We’ve […]
We’d been avoiding going to check out Rahu. As with a lot of expats living in Phnom Penh, we approach the main tourist strip along the riverside with a bit of trepidation. Touts, beggars, smelly backpackers and sleazy old men populate this fairly seedy area. Its a beautiful part of town, especially in the late […]
It’s been a while since we put one of these together. Here is our latest video mash of our lives in Phnom Penh. We’ve made the transition from sweat back-packers to sweaty expats. We now live in the Penh, and both are lucky enough to work at the Cambodian Children’s Fund. But while 11am breakfasts […]
We live near Psar Toul Tom Poung – other wise known as the Russian Market. Most westerners (or whiteys or whatever you want to call the 20,000 expats living in Phnom Penh) seem to live in the BKK area – at least that’s where most of the NGO workers seem to reside. The riverfront is […]
We’re working on a new little project called 57 Seconds. We’ll be filming a series of 57 second snippets from around the globe- just enough to capture the smell the smog, the taste the dust or the feeling of sun on your face. This is the first. This is Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 57 Seconds (Phnom […]
After Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, we finally arrived in Cambodia – the last country on our itinerary and the place were we were hoping to find jobs and settle down for a year or two. We loved Cambodia almost immediately. Before settling in to Phnom Penh and looking for work, we wanted to […]