

Derek Stokes
January 8, 2023
Following my mad rush across the border from Cambodia to Koh Mak, on which I only spent one divinely peaceful day (no, I’ve no idea…
January 3, 2023
I took a walk ‘round Chinatown,All morning long the sun beat down,I met a man, he wore no hat,I wondered to myself, “Why’s that?”. I…
December 18, 2022
“Good evening. It’s been a momentous day in the history of the land of make-believe. In what is perhaps the most sensational turnaround since a…
December 18, 2022
Today, I leave the lovely Battambang to make my way to the delightful little island of Koh Mak in Thailand. My Cambodian visa is expiring…
December 7, 2022
After the manic, mental, yet wonderfully invigorating pace of Phnom Penh, it was an enormously pleasant deceleration to the sleepy, sluggish riverside atmosphere of Cambodia’s…
November 11, 2022
I should clearly begin with the caveat that they are all utterly mental here when it comes to vehicular activities. Two months as both pilot…
November 4, 2022
I have vague recollections of when I was a young child (long time ago now – different century), we used to sit down as a…
November 2, 2022
Clouds bloom, consumed with constipated anticipation, Moist swathes, bathed in saturated maturation, Spill free, fleeing the abundant inundation, Pour down, drowning the sopping population. Lights…
October 16, 2022
Today sends me to the small town of Chhlong (childish giggle – yes, that is how you pronounce it) in the west of Cambodia. I…
October 13, 2022
Well, that was interesting!!! Somehow, I am back beside my old friend the mighty Mekong in a town called Kratie, with a whole lot of…