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Battambang Day 2
For our second day, we had a leisurely cycle around Battambang, visited the market and had drinks in a stylish little coffee house, as breakfast had filled us up enough to last us to dinner. Battambang is much quieter and cleaner than Phnom Penh. We cycled around the market and back streets, and sampled the […]
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Deconstructing Khmer
Matt and I are currently writing a program to extract all the legal syllable clusters that can occur in the Khmer written language. Text is usually represented inside a computer using ASCII, which can handle 255 possible letters. That’s fine for English, but to work with the tens of thousands of characters found in the […]
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Battambang Day 1
On our first day, we went to the Bamboo Train, which was interesting, fun and terrifying. Like a rollercoaster with less safety. It costs $5 dollars each to go 3 km, with a stop off to buy souvenirs and drinks. The trains themselves are platforms made of bamboo, with a hole for a motor and […]
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Lauren’s Travel Blog
On Sunday morning, 7am, we shall embark on a long and treacherous journey to Thailand, kingdom of elephants and tasty street food. Cambodia, but better and richer. We’ll be gone for three weeks, and I’ll be updating you on our travels, giving reviews, tips and information to help any other adventurer set on taking up […]
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Korean BBQ
Our wonderful neighbours the Kwons cooked a delicious Korean-style barbecue today for all the HOPE families who have moved into nearby streets.
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A Pirate’s Life for Me
After months of learning lines, practising songs and evening & weekend rehearsals, tonight’s the night! Avast me hearties! Are you ready to taste me steel?
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A Room with a View
This is the view from the balcony outside my teaching room. Usually there are less diggers, and my view of the Cambodian countryside extends 180° for several miles. Fantastic!
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Perfect Tablet
Matt’s finally done it. After three years of practice he’s honed his tablet making art to perfection, creating that silky smooth texture that melts in the mouth (usually taking your teeth with it). Pity it never lasts very long…
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Easter Garden
This year we thought we’d be unable to create our traditional Chocolate Easter Garden, but Mrs Kershaw came up with the goods (chocolate, rice crispies AND the little people) and all was well. Nom nom.
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Tom’s 11th Birthday
It was Tom’s birthday this Friday so we took a 3-day break at the White Elephant hotel, East of the city. Normally this would be a 1-1.5 hour drive depending on traffic – but there wasn’t any! It was Khmer New Year, so EVERYONE had gone back to their home province to visit family, leaving […]
