21October 2025: Siem Reap: At the Supermarket, Plantation and a Farewell Dinner Last full day of the tour anticipating a brutal day of travelling for the return to Toronto tomorrow. Had a leisurely buffet breakfast and several cups of tea. I will say the eggs I had for breakfast (and the one over my beefContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):21October 2025: Siem Reap: At the Supermarket, Plantation and a Farewell Dinner”
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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):20October2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Wat: Saving the Best For Last?
20October2025 Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Wat: Saving the Best For Last? I have visited Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and now Cambodia. I have witnessed and experienced an incredible amount and the question that faces me is Angkor Wat the actual highlight of this tour? Impossible to answer although it was the destination of overwhelming attraction andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):20October2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Wat: Saving the Best For Last?”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):19October2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Treated Like a Criminal
19October2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Treated Like a Criminal Siem Reap here we come! My main reason for travelling with ABC International was to discover the ancient civilization of Angkor Wat. Brutal timing awaits as up at 05:45 to finish off packing and leave bags outside room at 06:45 before heading down to breakfast. Not havingContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):19October2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Treated Like a Criminal”
RKS Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):18October2025: Bangkok: Beware of a Killer Salad!
18October2025: Bangkok: Beware of a Killer Salad! Last night in Bangkok prior to flying off to Cambodia. We were to meet three other couples for a shuttle across the river to eat at a Thai-Italian fusion restaurant called Mazzaro. D and his wife arrived at our meeting point at the Peninsula Bangkok pier all flusteredContinue reading “RKS Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):18October2025: Bangkok: Beware of a Killer Salad!”
Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): Disapproval of the Body Pierced and Scantily Attired
18October2025: Bangkok: Hooky Given the day’s afternoon activity consisted of yet another cruise and meal along the Chao Phraya River and commenced with a 08:00 departure one might say a long breakfast with other tour hooky people and two pots of jasmine tea overlooking the river was preferable. What a breakfast…as usual with papaya, mango,Continue reading “Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): Disapproval of the Body Pierced and Scantily Attired”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):16October2025: Bangkok: Liar Liar Pants on Fire!
16October2025: Bangkok: Liar Liar Pants on Fire! I returned to the Peninsula Bangkok feeling better and joyous the air conditioning in the room was not a la polar vortex. I performed a Google search as to a Thai remedy for a cold and selected Tom Ka Kai served in half coconut shell, coconut-based broth, basil,Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):16October2025: Bangkok: Liar Liar Pants on Fire!”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):16October2025: No Guilt Shopping and Observations on Poverty and Luxury
16October2025: No Guilt Shopping and Observations on Poverty and Luxury I have purposely opted out of the day’s tour itinerary not feeling particularly well and exhausted by all the travelling and a late night yesterday. I miss a cruise on the Chao Phraya River, but I did that last night. Yet more temples. The plenitudeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):16October2025: No Guilt Shopping and Observations on Poverty and Luxury”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):16October2025: Eastern & Oriental Express Embarrassing Good-Bye and a Brutal Travel Day
16October2025: Eastern & Oriental Express Embarrassing Good-Bye and a Brutal Travel Day A rough jerky night on the train. Feeling a tad better but when you don’t feel up to snuff even a luxurious Pullman Cabin equates to being a sardine in a tin can. No appetite so half a croissant and a sip ofContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):16October2025: Eastern & Oriental Express Embarrassing Good-Bye and a Brutal Travel Day”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):15October2025: Forget That Martini and Gourmet Dinner: I Have the Queasies!
15October2025: Forget That Martini and Gourmet Dinner: I Have the Queasies! Back on the Eastern & Oriental Express hot and steamy. It has been in and out of stultifying heat on Penang Island and then thrust into the chill of air conditioning. It has been plaguing me the entire trip. Why on earth did IContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):15October2025: Forget That Martini and Gourmet Dinner: I Have the Queasies!”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)14October2025: On the Rails Again in Malaysia
14October2025: On the Rails Again in Malaysia Let’s alter that Willie Nelson song a bit and hum “On the Rails Again”. The seasoned jungle explorers reeking of danger and DEET having seen terrifying piles of elephant dung on their jungle trek (actually a ride on a Jeep) return to the safety of the Eastern &Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)14October2025: On the Rails Again in Malaysia”
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