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Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Well, indeed. Now in Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Fun city, 2 million people, 1,000 cars and 10 million motorbikes (that is how it looks). Staying in my fav guest house 1 street back from the Mekong River. This means paying $20 a night, not $200 (dumb ass tourists), and a slightly smaller room, with less glitz.

Spent the last week plus in southern...
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All my blog posts are about travel, that is just me.

I am in the southern Laos city of Savannakhet. A city of, I am told, 120,000 people, but I do not belive that number, maybe 1/4 of that, or perhaps the stat refers to a larger area outside the city itself?

Sav stretches along the Mekong River for about 3kms and inland 2kms. French...
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Been in the resort city of Pattaya for two weeks. R&R, a pleasant spot. Been thinking of what is next. Planning a trip via Laos to Cambodia and some time in Phnom Penh. Leaving in a few days.

Now spending a month in the southern Thai town of Surat Thanithe city of good people. Not the most exciting town in Thailand, but it is a pleasant spot by the river, I know of a great hotel here, low cost, good facilities, friendly staff (which is to say, they don't laugh when I mispronounce the Thai language, and they play the game of throwing...
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In the city of Pattaya, in eastern Thailand. Yes, Pattaya has the reputation of being a 'naughty city', where sex is for sale. Staying at 'Secrets' http://www.secretspattaya.com/. Been here before. Catching up with a few old friends, generally hanging out.

The beach, on a deck chair, sipping a coconut, is a pleasant way to spend a few hours, with a book, neck massage, feet scrapped...
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Nothing really, but I am getting ready to re-visit Bangkok"The City of Angels", as it is more formally known (Bangkok being a nickname), and to see and to observe the Thai election on the 3rd of July. Lots of fun. Thailand has been plagued with coups, military dictatorships, and general political squabbling ever since it became a 'democracy' in 1932. Reformist governments get sacked by...
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I have now been in the 'deep south' of Thailand for a week. This is the Muslim majority area of Thailand, afflicted with insurrection, whereby -- some -- of the local Muslim Malays wish to break away from Thailand and join with Malaysia.

a. I don't think that they would be any better treated, and
b. Malaysia seems entirely uninterested in their situation.

Today I...
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In the town of Pattani, in the 'deep' south of Thailand, a region of rice, small villages, and terrorism. Elements in the Muslim majority province don't like being part of Thailand and believe that if they break away and become part of Malaysia they will be better treated---yeah, right. Screwed either way imo.

The capital town of Pattani has about 40k people, and a number...
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I thought that I should go to the trouble of telling who reads my blog, not many I suspect, what I am doing now. What I am doing is travelling, right now travelling in southern Thailand. A land of small towns, lots of villages, rice farms, rubber plantations, usually friendly certainly interesting people, and lots of things to see.

Right at this moment I am...
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I have been pre-occupied for the last year or so with one or four other things, but I am back here, and lets see what is happening. Currently touring through Thailand. Plan to visit Sumatra, Java, Borneo and then the Phils this year.

Wish me luck.

Here I sit, early evening at a Dome (us people think sbux) in the town of bunbury 200kms south of Perth. Growing a little bored in my home town waiting 4 lawyers to shuffle papers I decided a week away Ed b fun. I am staying at a backpackers, and wandering around the town taking snaps and doing stuff. Bunbury is a nice town, not...
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