An Italian journalist who lived for more than twenty years in Asia once wrote that traveling and living abroad makes you tired, it makes you older. After three and half years in Cambodia I start to believe that this is true. I feel a bit tired, though I am not sure I feel older yet. Signs of this tiredness are more evident after a trip to another country, having the opportunity to observe another way […]
Dear all, After a long break,here you are. Again the hot time, it is never cold though, but now it is hot and it is only the end of February the two next months are the real hot season, it is now the fourth hot season for us in Cambodia and maybe the last. Thermometer reached 37 degrees inside the house yesterday. It is a bit like holiday feeling on Saturday afternoon going around […]
Today I received an email from a friend from Finland. It was a forwarded message that found its way until my PC here in Kampong Thom, Cambodia click after click, along a strange and unforeseeable sequence of connections. It had an attachment a picture of a young child, of two year of age who has lost his parents in the Tsunami that hit Thailand almost two weeks ago. He has a Scandinavian face, blond hairs, […]
As every year, the beginning of December has brought the International Half Marathon of Angkor here in Cambodia. I decided last year to prepare myself and join for the first time such a run. The concerns were many: the distance, the humidity, getting enough stamina with training, and the early departure time of the run. About three months ago I googled the web searching for sites that helped me to make up a training schedule. Eventually I found one […]
It has been sometime. I know. Anyhow we are here. Last 12 months in Cambodia before moving back to Finland. I will come back soon with some more stories from this unique country. Arnaldo
How it is to go to Cambodia with Olga, one month old child? Of course not for traveling. Holidays with one month old child are not exactly the thing that every parent wishes for. There is enough new world to get used to inside the walls of home, going to other side of the world is not really necessary at this stage. But now that our life and home happens to be here, on the […]
It may be true: life becomes more serious the more we grow older. Work commitments make us have more responsibilities and have less time to enjoy time for ourselves or with our friends. Moreover distance may come in between and we live more apart from friend and family. I myself live far away from family and friends and though I have made new friends living far away, I miss the friends back home and the […]
Anche qui da noi c'é aria di autunno. Siamo ai primi di dicembre, le pioggie che hanno accompagnato il monsone sono finite. Nei campi il riso puó essere raccolto. L'aria é secca e ventosa.