"Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe".

Category: wanderlust

Chatuchak Weekend Market, Bangkok.

Chatuchak Weekend Market. Cover photo courtesy of JJ Harrison.  April, 2015. I do love myself a big old Asian market! You’ve got the smell of sizzling street food, the unpredictability of the haggling, the vast array of stuff on offer! I’ve certainly been to my fair share of markets throughout Asia. But looking back, not […]

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Hisses & Slithers at Bangkok Snake Farm.

Bangkok Snake Farm. April 2015. It was a scorching afternoon in Bangkok as I made my way through the grimy streets towards Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute. When I first heard that there was a snake farm in the Thai capital, I was more than skeptical. There are snake farms all across Thailand, but they don’t have […]

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Pulp Friction, a short story from Qatar.

Pulp Friction, a short story from Qatar. In the summer of 2001 I boarded a near-empty Qatar Airways flight to Doha. Reuniting with my family who’d recently moved there for my father’s new job, it was my first time living abroad. —— I’d been kicking around Doha for around six to seven weeks by the […]

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R.I.P Kool Kampot Guesthouse, Kampot.

Kool Kampot Guesthouse, Kampot. July-September, 2020. I’m sure Sladja and I will never forget our first chaotic days in Kampot. As digital nomads with very specific accommodation needs, it often felt like our entire Cambodian adventure saw us perpetually on the edge of professional disaster. We make our money from blogging and teaching, both of […]

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Where to Eat and Drink in Kampot.

Where to Eat and Drink, Kampot. August 2020. Following individual articles on Bookish Bazaar, Cafe Espresso and Hotel Old Cinema and Tertulia Restaurant here’s my bumper roundup of all the other food and drink spots we visited during our two month stay in the Cambodian city of Kampot. There are countless coffee joints in Kampot. But if […]

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