southeast asia

Hell from letterfromthailand 122 days old

[ ... ] of people living in Southeast Asia are close to the poverty line, but Cambodia is at the bottom of the pile by some distance. Stueng ...

Getting my mooch on from letterfromthailand 138 days old

My Cambodian moto driver made the mistake of casually mentioning that he could probably put me up in his rural home for a night or two, and I grabbed ...

Buying mates in Cambodia from letterfromthailand 144 days old

With Songkran quickly fading to a blurry memory I had two weeks in Southeast Asia to kill before I was due to arrive in Australia as an immigrant. Naturally, ...

A spot of bother from letterfromthailand 152 days old

Hangovers and boats are uneasy bedfellows but the wedding I had travelled to the isolated island of Koh Lipe in Thailand's southern-most province for ...

Why are lobsters boiled alive? Because they fucking well deserve it. from letterfromthailand 352 days old

[ ... ] for a quick look around Southeast Asia. They made it as far as Sihanoukville and like so many others, fell completely head over heals in love ...

Cheap as chips! from letterfromthailand 359 days old

After the trauma of spending days researching an article about the weapons sprinkled liberally all over Cambodian society, which had itself come hot ...

You gonna shoot me bud or what's the story? from letterfromthailand 367 days old

It was another one of those moments when you stop, exhale deeply and wonder how in the name of sweet suffering Jaysus you manage to land yourself into ...

How to buy a gun in Cambodia from letterfromthailand 371 days old

Research for the article I wanted to right about the proliferation of arms in Cambodia was going well. Weapons, it appeared, were everywhere. Signs on ...

Shoot to Thrill from letterfromthailand 378 days old

I originally decided to leave Thailand for Cambodia in the hunt for a story when a fellow Irish expat casually mentioned that the country was so awash ...

So it's basically a temple, yeah? from letterfromthailand 432 days old

My joyful journey on the scam bus from Bangkok to Cambodian capital Phnom Penh brought me to the town of Siem Reip; the main jump off point for the two ...