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Who’s Laughing Now?

UPDATE: 16th December 2022 FRANCIS d’ARENBERG (d’ARRY) OSBORN OAM 27th December 1926 – 16th December 2022 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Francis d’Arenberg Osborn - better known and loved as d’Arry –...

The Chinese Lantern Under a Bushel

The Chinese Lantern Under a Bushel   “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness” Chinese Proverb   The Tower The Vattanac Capital Tower rises over Phnom Penh like a dragon’s tail, standing at 187.3 meters, it...

To Summit

  Catalina Sounds celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Everest, a Catalina navigator in the Pacific during WWII and a genuine New Zealand hero.   “It...

The Gruen Transfer

  On The Table - Tokyo Café AEON Mall II – Sen Sok City, Phnom Penh I’ve never been big on Mall restaurants, eateries or bars, the whole concept just seems like it’s all faux atmosphere, cooking...

Faces to the Rain

FACES TO THE RAIN Where are the poets in a world gone mad, The sonnets, stanzas and quatrains? Words are sharpest from the edge, Where is the caesura and refrain- In our desperation and despair? Aught but screams and cries...

Penh and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – (Updated)

      Tim Belcourt looks the part of an outlaw biker, a long white handlebar moustache gives him the appearance of a grizzled walrus, tattoos cover his forearms, there are lasting scars, on the inside as...

Jacob’s Ladder

‘And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of...

Roasted Slopes

  The Wines of the Cote Rotie, (Roasted Hillside) on the sharp rising slopes at the Northern end of the Rhone Valley are some of the most seductive and alluring wines from all France and...

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