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Goodbye, Serendipity

August 18, 2018August 18, 2018 Asia, Beaches, Featured, Heartbreak, Life, Relationships, Travelling cambodia, heartbreak, love, occheuteal, relationships, serendipity, sihanoukville

In March 2008 I visited a place that changed my life. Of course, back then bracing myself for every bump in the dusty road I had no idea where the rusted bus careening wildly along

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10 Awesome Movie Locations Around The World

March 26, 2014March 26, 2014 Asia, Europe, Featured, Nature, Photography, Travelling argentina, bali, bogota, bourne supremacy, brazil, breakfast at tiffany's, buenos aires, cambodia, casa rosada, colombia, eat pray love, evita, film, glencoe, glenfinnan, goa, harry potter, iceland, iguazu, india, lara croft, location, maya bay, movie, mr and mrs smith, new york city, NYC, palolem, phi phi lei, siem reap, skyfall, ta prohm, thailand, the beach, the mission, tiffany's, tomb raider, ubud, viaduct, walter mitty

When I travel I don’t deliberately seek out places that have been used as film locations, but every now and then I happen to stumble into one. Here is a round-up of the 10 best

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War Museums: Meaningful or Macabre?

August 24, 2011October 11, 2011 Travelling a-bomb dome, berlin wall, bridge over river kwai, cambodia, cheung euk, coventry cathedral, germany, hellfire pass, hiroshima, japan, kanchanaburi, killing fields, kymer rouge, memorials, thailand, Tseul sleng, uk, war museums

Visiting a war museum is not a pleasant or comfortable experience and I have left the ones I have visited in tears. Many of the images and artefacts are deeply disturbing, exposing me to atrocities

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Chaul Chnam Thmey – Khmer New Year

April 13, 2011April 30, 2011 Asia, Tradition, Travelling asia, cambodia, cambodian new year, khmer new year, partying, serendipity beach, sihanoukville

Cambodia is quite possibly my favourite country on my travels so far. There is just something about the rural countryside and its proud people that I love to return to time and time again. I

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2010s Best Bits

January 1, 2011December 14, 2011 Asia, Life in Sweden, Teaching, Travelling, Vietnam, Working Overseas baltic countries, cambodia, eskilstuna, europe the final countdown, eyjafjallajökull, gröna lund, helsinki, hong kong, iceland volcano, nha trang, partying, qatar airlines, riga, ryanair, saigon ink, serendipity beach, sheridans saigon, sihanoukville, skansen stockholm, stockholm, sweden, tallink silja line, tallinn, tattoo, västerås

What an awesome year this year was. In honour of a great year this blog post recalls some of my favourite moments of 2010 January We welcomed in the New Year with elated cries of

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The Journey to Sweden

July 20, 2010April 3, 2016 Asia, Life in Sweden cambodia, expat, moving abroad, moving to sweden, sihanoukville, sweden, swedish winter

My first encounter with Sweden, aside from the obvious dance to ABBA on a Saturday night or spending spree in H&M, came in April 2008 when my friend Kelly and I were visiting Cambodia for

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