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 […]
We live in Toul Tom Poung. If you look on a map of Phnom Penh we’re at the bottom…just. Living in the butt-end of town has it’s benefits like cheaper rent and more of a “community” feel which I have always appreciated in cities. That said it also has it’s down points- more power outages, […]
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 […]
Year’s End 2012 from Asha and Ryan on Vimeo. 2012 was a pretty amazing year for Asha and Ryan. Selling out stuff, leaving Australia behind and travelling through Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam before finally settling down to live as expats in Cambodia. Our last video of 2012 sees us hanging out with family […]
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 […]
So I know where I’ll be eating lunch for the next year or so. There are plenty of places to get good food around the Russian Market area where we work – but non more delicious, cheaper or unassuming than Hainan chicken joint Barn Barn. This little off the street eatery serves Singapore style hawker […]