Seven Years On..

Yup, it’s been seven years since my last post. Seven freaking fuckadoodledoo looong years.
It’s amazing to be picking up the thread, and I’m all pumped up. And, it feels good to be writing in a little longer form than my cryptic tweet-bursts. (outbursts?)
The old blog posts from 2011 were definitely hacked with all kinds of garbage - from penile enlargement persuasions and calisthenic acrobatic sex addled artistes, and that same chap from Nigeria still trying to please, please use my bank to kindly park his £15 million...

I had to go in and clean up a lot of it, so it’s littered with broken links, and I finally decided to just leave it as is and move on. Living in the ‘now’...

So definitely the way I write will have changed over the years, I’m sure. I really hope so. Evolution is change. Change is good. Possibly it may reflect some abandon, and a sense of new adventures.
And speaking of adventures.... in a few days all of us are off for a long overdue family trip together.
Mexico 'May-hee-co' and the US. They better watch out. Hang onto your hat! And follow along if you please.

Tonlé Sap

An entire village on boats! There were shops, basketball courts, a pool hall, a police station, hardware stores, a church (really!), and lots of homes that were built above floating fish farms. The water at the mouth of the estuary of the Tonlé Sap lake looked like, and had the consistency of a light chocolate soufflé - froth and all.

Girls & me..

We didn't know what to expect. Mara especially, read up about Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge and land mines...
She needn't have worried, it was one of our best trips.

Stairs, Ladders... Whatever

So these chaps must've had rippling thighs and monstrous stamina.
I mean just look at the stairways they built! They're almost vertical, and each step has a great rise.
What happened when you got to the top and you needed to pee?
The hike up was well worth it. We got to Angkor at 4:30am and up to the top at about 5:30 with the sunrise - Just wonderful.

Cambodia in the raw

Well Angkor Wat was everything I had heard, and everything it purported to be...
I have to say though, India does better stone.
Don't get me wrong - Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples are spectacular (especially Bayon, Te Phrom and Bantey Sri), but compared to Halebid/Belur and Khajurahuo and the Ellora (Kailash) temples.... you have to see it for yourself.