On  Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:23 PM, Huw Porter wrote:

(snip)
> >> http://www.geocities.com/huwporter/thailand2.html
> >>
> >> Enjoy!
> >
> >Indeed I did!  I actually started at the beginning and read through all
of
> >your travel adventures thus far.

> Bloomin' eck - that must have taken a while!  It started as a few tales
for
> family and friends, and very quickly got out of hand!  The whole thing is
a
> work-in-progress (in particular I'm not happy with the GBR report yet.
> Speaking of which, what happened to yours? :-))))

I got bogged down with 'fings'!  But I promise to do one - although it's
going to be bloody difficult to better yours!  :-)

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> Bjorn and Soyong had Kat and myself round for dinner and drinks over the
> weekend, seemingly unconcerned at letting a couple of grubby, smelly
> backpackers into their palatial apartment! :-) Kat has now gone off to the
> beach with her fella, before hitting Aus in late Dec, and I leave for the
> notorious cross-country twelve-hours-in-the-back-of-a-muddy-ute trip into
> Cambodia and Angkor tomorrow. 8-)

That's still on my list of 'must-visit-one-day' places to go.  I never
managed it in '68 but I got very close in '94 when I asked the owner - a
Frenchman - of the 'Song Sai Gon', that doubled as a liveaboard operating
out of Nha Trang from May to September but who took extended trips up the
Mekong during the other months of the year - whether he ever went up as far
as Cambodia and into Tongle Sap.  (I thought he might give me a free trip!!)

The problem, he said, in going into those areas was that armed and uniformed
'bandits' would attempt to rob and pillage the vessel.  Because they were in
uniform it was impossible to tell which faction they belonged to, or even if
they were just casual pirates out for a bit of porraging and reaping!

He did, however, say that it's something he'd always wanted to do and that
if I cared to accompany him on the voyage, he'd buy the necessary M-16's to
fight off any aggressors.  I declined with grateful thanks! :-)

So!  The ruins of Angkor Wat still remain high on my list of places to see
before I cark it!  :-)

Take care out there and I look forward to reading your report.

 > I've given one of my old university friends, who has just moved to
Sydney,
> details of the Saturday morning dive ritual - If you see a small Welsh
girl
> with an explosion of blond curls in DCM one weekend, look after her for
me!

Oh!  OK!  (Blond you say!)  :-)

Strike