I Give You Taxi At Special Rate My Friend

March 14, 2009

I’d just flown in to Bangkok from Phnom Penh and wanted to get to my hotel in the city.  I walked down to the very ground level and,  as usual, was approached by several folk keen to offer me a a ride into town.  I normally just mutter ‘No thanks’, carry on walking and the […]

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The Caledonian Sleeper – A Sleep on a Train

March 7, 2009

I had to be in London for an early morning meeting and I didn’t fancy the idea of getting up at 4am to get to Edinburgh airport to fly down.  I didn’t really want to be hitting London at rush hour anyway, the tube at 8am isn’t my idea of fun.  I could have flown […]

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Terrevista Trails Website – Construction Work!

March 7, 2009

If you’ve come or gone to or from my blog from my website at www.terrevistatrails.com (THE place to buy silk sleeping bag liners BTW) can I just appologise for the state of the site at the moment.   The web builders are in, hopefully improving things, but work seems to be taking a bit longer than […]

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AirAisia – Still not as bad as Ryanair

February 28, 2009

Several people have pointed out to me that Ryanair ony let you have 15kg hold luggage too.  And now they’re talking about charging people £1 to use the toilet in flight. What next?  Coin slots to activate the drop down oxygen masks?

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Needing Luggage?

February 22, 2009

If you’ve bought a Jag Bag silk sleeping bag liner from me,  thank you very much.  Now, if you’re looking for some serious travel luggage to put it in, let me point you to www.adventureavenue.co.uk.  They’re a friendly, Edinburgh based company who’ll be able to fix you up with just about any kind of travel […]

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Air Asia’s Money Generating Scheme

February 21, 2009

Don’t get me wrong, Air Asia offer a great selection of flights at brilliant prices throughout er, well Asia basically, but they do have a particular Gotcha!  They only allow 15kg of hold luggage,  anything above that and you could be paying a lot in excess baggage.  At Phnom Penh airport my backpack weighed in […]

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Comrade Duch – He’s old, he’s frail, he’s going to die in jail

February 17, 2009

Comrade Duch – doesn’t sound too bad does it? And yet it’s the alias of a man responsible for more human suffering and misery than most of us could ever imagine. Comrade Duch’s real name is Kaing Geuk Eav and during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, Duch was in charge of the Phnom Penn […]

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Decent Place to Stay in Siem Reap

February 11, 2009

First off let me say there are a million places to stay in Siem Reap – everything from $5 basic rooms right up to unimaginable luxury type gazillion star hotels with suites costing three times more per night than the average Cambodian farmer earns in a year.  Personally, I like to aim for somewhere in-between, […]

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Dirty Money in Cambodia

February 7, 2009

See anything wrong with this $20 bill?  Ok, it’s bit creased but I guess most folk would be happy to take it.  Most people – but not in Cambodia.  This note was refused in Phnom Penh airport by the Air Asia desk in payment for my excess baggage charge.  It was then refused by the […]

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Just Playing……

January 29, 2009

Thought I’d try out a bit of video on the blog……… This is me trying to fire twirl on the beach in Sihanoukville.  Turn your speakers off before viewing  –  there’s a German Billy Idol disco cranking it out right next door.

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