Cambodia cycling stats Sunday, February 24 2008

Big travel days in Cambodia due to good roads and two dutchmen that were fitter than me. I know the stats don't add up - I don't count all days cycled as 'cycling days' if it was just to e.g. go sightseeing around Phnom Penh. Basically I screw with the stats to make myself look good. 1,016 Kilometres cycled 17...  read more

	Siem Reap to Poipet details Friday, February 22 2008

This might be useful to people cycling the route... or at least a historical curiosity when they one day put a half decent road here. The Siem Reap to Poipet road is notoriously bad, the most famous theory being that some airline is paying the government not to upgrade it (or to do it slowly) so that more people...  read more

Cambodian contrasts Wednesday, February 20 2008

My image of what Cambodia would be like was confirmed when the road away from the border turned out to be a dusty track through poor villages with 'Australian Red Cross Water Management Program' signs plastered all over them. (Cambodia has so many NGOs running about that you wonder whether the federal government...  read more