Again just too big for one blog, so here goes Part I, and Part II – the sequel will be coming to a blog near you very soon. Where to start …. as Julie Andrews states “Let’s start at the very beginning …….” Almost as if planned we arrived at lunch time at the hotelRead More

So it was too big for the blog – too many photos, so here is part deux of the Gardens on the Bay day. To some carnivores – cool right. Beautiful plants with sticky, sugary liquid inside. Come in fly, have a drink me old son, gotcha stuck, slowly shuts trap door, slowly gets dissolvedRead More

Yes I am going to create a new blog. Why not. I know I know you think it’s the same same, but hey it’s actually different. Quite amazingly they have changed the seasons in the two domes so the flowers and all are all different now too, so here you go – trip number twoRead More

Who remembers Stingray the kids puppet show. Well here we go imagine the closing song; http://www.televisiontunes.com/Stingray_-_Closing_Titles_-_Aqua_Marina.html “Marina, beautiful Marina, whatever are these strange enchantments whenever you’re near ……….” Here is my little Marina, is it a bird, is it a fish ………??? No eating in the pool please Uncle Darren. What you mean, I’m justRead More

5am wake up call, to be on the bus at 0630am to start a 3 hour coach drive to the remote country side of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Accompanied by the guys for the football who were Japanese and a lady guide also Japanese, and a local lady from the orphanage who was Cambodian and spokeRead More

Ollie and I decided to book SilkAir/SilkAir so ended up pretty much with whole day to ourselves in Phnom Penh as the other guys in the end didn’t arrive until approximately 5pm. So what did we do, Ollie and I, on that VERY hot 35 degree day in Phnom Penh. Hmmm perhaps best to sayRead More

After football at the orphanage we stopped on the way back for a river trip to see Kompong Chhang. This is a floating village, literally loads of little houseboats glued together in a marshy river system on the lake of Tonle Sap. It’s about 90km or so from Phnom Penh. Interesting is that most ofRead More

So to the last day. I promise I will go to the first day. A day that was literally a mixed bag of all-sorts. We started with a breakfast again overlooking the beautiful Meekong RIver, a lovely light and breezy start to a great great day. Next as a gang we departed to see theRead More

It kind of does not get much better with a breakfast view than this does it? Look at this. 6 stories up staring at this, the Meekong River, over a boiled egg this morning. What a breakfast.  I could watch this all day long. But coffees/breakfast and kit handouts. Mr Josh bless gave Ollie numberRead More

Oh my goodness, lucky boy – no presents to open – BUT – he’s in Cambodia with his school mates playing football (see previous), but here is the actual meal on Saturday. Balloons and cake were in tow. Ollie hoped you enjoyed with your buddies!?!?!?!?!? So parent in charge of three. Here we go. TukRead More