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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Buddhism
The more I encounter Buddhism – the more it appeals to me. I’ve come back from Laos and Cambodia where Buddhism is the main “religion”. It doesn’t have any imaginary deities, no prescriptive doctrines and doesn’t incite hatred. Make others … Continue reading
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Pictures of Laos and Cambodia
I’ve uploaded the pictures from Laos and Cambodia onto Flickr. A friend sent me a link to this lodge in Cambodia.
Bangkok, Thailand
Well, it’s the last day of the holiday before we fly home tomorrow morning. It’s certainly been an enlightening experience. Already saying bye to some of the group who are making their own way home. If you get a chance … Continue reading
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Angkor Wat and other temples… Cambodia
We did three Hindu temples/cities yesterday. I forget the name of the first one but Bayon, Angkor Wat and the Temple of the Lady were really good. I was expecting to be blown away by Angkor Wat like I was … Continue reading
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Siem Reap, Cambodia
Today’s highlight was eating a fried spider, purchased from the market. They also had a bucket of the live ones as well, the spiders were about the size of my palm Tomorrow we start on our tour of Angkor Wat … Continue reading
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
It’s frickin’ hot here and lots of mozzies. The traffic is mental – they swap sides on road according to no rules that I can discern. Been to a couple of markets, that I’m sure you could get lost in, … Continue reading
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Now in Laos
We took a flight from Bangkok to Chang Mai (?), where we stopped at a hotel on the Thai/Laos border. Then in the morning we took a river crossing to get to the Laos border contol. We got our visa … Continue reading
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Bangkok, Thailand
12 hour flight from London to here yesterday, via Abu Dhabi. Was 31C when we arrived and is pretty humid – lots of water! We’re off to the Laos border now (flying from Bangkok) ready to cross the border tomorrow. … Continue reading
Travel weather
Just when I thought all my plans were clicking nicely into place – the weather goes and messes up my train journey from Wales to Heathrow. I just hope the roads are all OK.
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Still useful
Helped my mum’s cousin get iTunes installed on her laptop, after the whole IT department of a company couldn’t install it. Heh! Techy: Vbscript.dll wasn’t registered on the Vista (urgh) laptop – so did a regsvr32 vbscript.dll (as administrator) – … Continue reading
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