Webbed Feet, Web Log

• Water Festival, November 2019 4 years ago View this post on Instagram Facebook, in I love Water Festival in Cambodia. Pictures from earlier in November: Villages store wooden longboats in their local temple, and bring them out and practice for the big match in the capitol. (There are some regional races too.) We have religious holidays,...
• USA: Let's Follow Australia's Refugee Relocation Model 4 years ago     Australia spent $55 million (USD 38 million) to relocate 5 refugees in Cambodia. Cost effective? You could have put the refugees up at the Hilton, bought them a business and sent their kids to top private schools for these prices. Maybe, just maybe, we could be kind instead.   Australia’s...
• Cambodia: "It's a great place to take drugs" says VICE 4 years ago From VICE magazine, a video about how the beach in Cambodia is a great, exotic place to take drugs. ………………………………. Video: “My first acid trip was with strangers in Cambodia” This is an excellent animated true story narrated by a woman who talks about the first time she...
• The Saga Of The Child Temple Vendor [Update] 5 years ago On social media in the last few weeks, this story has been HUGE: Meet the Incredible Cambodia Boy Who Can Speak Over 10 Languages https://nextshark.com/cambodian-boy-multiple-languages/ “Temple kid speaks many languages! But he’s POOR.” I lived in Siem Reap from year 2000 to 2004. (And was in...
• Farewell To Steve Gourley 6 years ago [Above: memorial at Wat Teuk Thla, Phnom Penh. It is open to the public.] Steve Gourley (51) has passed. He had been convalescing from head trauma from a moto accident in Phnom Penh in 2017. He had the good fortune to have a good medical cover, and had initially begun recovery in Bangkok. Fluent in...

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