Southeast Asia Tour Wrap Up Aside from a two-week tour of Vietnam in 2016 this was my second Asian incursion. Being a frequent traveller to Europe has taken the thrill out of international travel for me but I say this in a complimentary way. Europe ceases to cause that WOW factor. Instead, it is likeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Southeast Asia Tour Wrap Up”
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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):21October 2025: Siem Reap: At the Supermarket, Plantation and a Farewell Dinner
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”
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: 19October 2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Obese Americans with Fanny Packs (Ozempic People)
19October 2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Obese Americans with Fanny Packs (Ozempic People) Travelling is primarily observational. Churches, monuments, cuisine, archaeological sites, topography and people. The majority of Americans are obese and benefit from the current vogue word “inclusion”. Obese Americans in fanny packs lolling through Sofitel caught my eye as a bizarre site. Throughout myContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia: 19October 2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Obese Americans with Fanny Packs (Ozempic People)”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): 19October 2025: Of Rabies and the Ozempic Cast from Viking Cruise Lines
19October 2025: Of Rabies and the Ozempic Cast from Viking Cruise Lines Descending into Siem Reap airport I was taken by the sparseness of vegetation and the flat topography. I was thinking Cambodia…jungle. On the bus to the hotel one can see what is referred to a mountain in the far distance. Flat fields withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): 19October 2025: Of Rabies and the Ozempic Cast from Viking Cruise Lines”
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):15October2025: Penang Island in Malaysia
15October2025: Penang Island in Malaysia Travelled on a bus from the Eastern & Oriental Express train to the Butterworth ferry terminal for the twenty-minute trip to Georgetown on Penang Island. Arrived at the Penang Island ferry terminal for a Vespa tour of Georgetown. Met Jimmy my driver and off we went to the “first stop”Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):15October2025: Penang Island in Malaysia”
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