Tonight I’ve been on the loose in Cambodia’s capital with my camera, and just had to share some snaps…the mood lighting and activity on the streets is really quite spellbinding.
Tonight I had dinner at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club with the lovely Polly, a Thai tour guide with Gap Adventures. She taught me a heap about Pol Pot’s penchant for butchering Cambodia’s thinkers, and the current brouhaha between Cambodia and Thailand over an 11th century temple.
She also talked a bit about her fascinating family; her Dad was a special operations policeman who would disappear with heavy weapons for months at at time, and now coordinates a kind of camp near the Thai border with Burma and Laos designed to cultivate healthy relationships with remote area villagers and hill tribes. It’s been a great night of seeing, listening, and learning about completely different lives and worlds.
Gretel Hunnerup is convinced that in a past life she was a carrier pigeon, such is her love of taking fanciful flights and posting little stories about her discoveries to her independent online pigeon hole: www.thecarrierpigeonpost.com.
The Australian sticky beak now writes about the little-known delights that make London hum…stuff that wouldn’t make the papers, like quirky establishments, not-for-tourists pursuits, and ordinary folks doing surprising things.
A trained journalist with six years travel and lifestyle writing for print and web, Gretel has taken a new post heading up internal communications for STA Travel’s Northern Europe and Africa Division, geared for maximum on-the-road reportage. Oh and she’s a sucker for documentaries, dress-up parties and dolmades.
