Love our morning walks. Never know what to expect. Got a nice pumpkin today.
Lucky to live in this beautiful country for a while.
Road between Kep and Kampot. Seems to finally be getting some repairs, in some places. Still a rough ride though, especially at night in a tuk tuk. But very, very worth it if you’re showing a friend around, and you’re short on time, so you’re staying in Kampot but want Kep crab market for dinner!
A few of my favorite things.
Villa Vedici, Kampot, Cambodia.
And yes, my camera lens is doing strange things! But I kind of like it.
One more jetlag early morning photo from Brussels. Funny, the human being’s memory. I was frozen solid most of the week I was there, but now that I’m back in 97 degree heat in Cambodia, I remember it so fondly…
Almost full moon over Bonn, Germany.
It was really too cold for this now 2-years-in-Cambodia-resident to take very many photos on this short trip to Brussels and Bonn. You’re going to have to take my word that after taking my hand out of my pocket just long enough to snap this photo, I went and ate a schnitzel the size of my leg, and washed it down with a very delicious German beer!
Taken while on a two hour long walking search for a money changer in Brussels. Turns out they’re not all over the place in Western Europe, even in big cities. Huh! Also related, no toilet hoses, aka bum guns, which is slightly devastating.
But check out the beautiful buildings!
Sunrise in hazy Oddar Meanchey. Far from home.
Dim sum birthday brunch last Sunday at the Yi Sang restaurant in the Almond Hotel, close to the Phnom Penh riverside. Want now and again and forever.
I’m using the word amazing as it should be used. Truly.
Col. Chris Hadfield tumblrs from the flippin’ space station.
Tasty spicy pork belly and noodles in Hong Kong.
What a great trip it was!
There is a guard at the National Museum in Phnom Penh who targets Western tourists (women in particular) for this scam. He tells the tourist that there is a US$1 levy for taking photographs in the museum’s courtyard and he collects the fees directly.
Scam.
There’s no fee. If there is, then the…
Can’t reply to this tumblr directly, but gotta correct this somewhere. US Dollars and Cambodian Riel are BOTH the local currency in Cambodia, particularly in Phnom Penh. If you use an ATM, for example, USD come out. Further, photography is prohibited in the National Museum. There are signs stating that everywhere. I suppose this enterprising guard could just be getting a couple bucks off tourists, but I’d hardly call what is presented here evidence of a “scam.”
