I last visited Australia a year and nine months ago. It was a two week holiday away from the culture shock of China. At the time I’d been travelling for a year and ten months so it seems I go in rhythms because here I am again. The differences I noted then remain similar now. I’m still looking for the waste paper basket for my toilet paper as opposed to simply flushing it and I catch myself out when Asian looking people speak perfect English. Yet this time I’m in …

I’ve come to expect scams from locals but westerners are meant to be on our side, countering the evil corruption not playing the game the Khmer way. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

As we learn through Diana Saw, owner operator of Bloom Guesthouse and Bloom bag store, Siem Reap, enough is enough!

The Cambodia that my African partner and his friends live in is a very different Cambodia than for me or my western colleagues. They must overcome phenomenal injustices just to survive here each day. This is an extremely difficult topic that I’ve wanted to address for a long time but have found it hard because Cambodia, like most countries in the world, has two sides to it. I’m in the middle of both where I can see the positive attributes to living here as a westerner and the negative as an African.