Author: Mike

I am an extremely lucky lady.Dave has been in England for the past week so I have been entertaining myself.I know I usually do during the day; but not at night and not on the w/e’s.Last night I stayed in but today I figured I would do something a little different. I went to the…

Christina has asked me to tell her about my guiding and what is involved with it, so here for Christina and anyone else who is interested, are my experiences to date. Picture shows those of us who “Graduated” from the guiding course with two of our leaders in the grounds of the museum.Our nationalities are:…

We celebrated Canada Day here on Sat. ( a week early, on Jean Baptist, because everyone leaves for home now school is out for the international kids) in the British Club grounds. Needless to say it poured with rain twice during the afternoon and evening resulting in a mud patch instead of a lawn. Fortunately…

I have been busy again.I go out and have experiences and think about what I will write and then I come back and forget about it.One day I went out early in the morning, the apartment has a white four seater Tuk Tuk which takes us down to the end of the soi as it…

I am on my own here at the moment. Dave returned to UK yesterday, he will go to his Auntie Phyl’s funeral on Monday. She died on her 70th birthday, 23rd May, form the cancer which she had been struggling with for two years. Apart from Uncle Mike, whom I have never met, Phyllis was…

Still talking about Cambodia. We did visit Angkor Wat on the second day and really took our time looking at the largest series of carved reliefs in the world. They mostly depict stories from Indian Epics and Angkor period wars and are beautifully carved. It is still possible to get up close and Asians usually…

The next temple we visited, after some lunch and a rest, was The Bayon famous for its faces which look down on you from all directions as you wander around. This again was built by Jayavarman VII and is another Buddhist temple. Around the walls on the lower leavel are bas-releif depictions of scenes from…

Cambodia, that name alone for me, summons up images of death and destruction, skulls lying in fields of mud, brutality born of ignorance and the name of an unseen dictator that sounds like a child’s name for a pet parrot. These images are from the past, today Cambodia is trying to catch up with the…

Yes, I know it has been a while! Life has been extremely busy lately.In January Dave’s cousin’s daughter came to visit. Sal was in Thailand for 3 weeks, during that time we went to Koh Samuie for 3 days. We enjoy that island because it is still fairly untouristy. It started life as a backpackers…

I know it is boring reading about something that is long gone but this is for my reflection as well as others and I want to remember what I did in the short while I hung out in “The Land of Smiles”.December was a busy month as can be expected and I was lucky enough…