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Sophie’s Bar Phnom Penh – Songkran 2007

April 11, 2024 – 12:58 am

Entry by Ty Spaulding In 1999 Cambodia was at peace. No weapons were seen on the streets, but once off the main avenues the streets were unlit Phnom Penh landmark was located on an unlit side street. Nik and I were looking for Sophia’s a notorious short-time bar. It is not easy to find even […]

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January 5, 1979 – East Village – Journal

February 13, 2024 – 11:08 am

The Kinks are on the radio. YOU REALLY GOT ME. A British Invasion festival from 1963 to 1966 marking an unexpected musical explosion from Great Britain. Many of the bands had been condemned by the Pat Boone loving conservatives. Few of those groups survived the Sixties. THe Beatles are dead, but the Rolling Stones survive. […]

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Hope and Anchor Hotel/Bar – Phnom Penh

April 14, 2023 – 7:16 am

After a three day stay in Sihanoukville Nick and I had enough of the sea, sand, and sun. We booked the next morning’s bus to Phnom Penh and checked out of the Angkor Arms. Upon hearing about our departure the hotel owner Roland wrote down the address of a salubrious hotel in Phnom Penh. Mike’s. […]

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Sophie’s Bar Phnom Penh – a touch of darkness

August 1, 2022 – 9:37 am

Entry by Ty Spaulding This Phnom Penh landmark is located on an unlit side street. It is not easy to find. The taxi motorcyclists on the sidewalk eye your entrance as you’ve had your ticket stamped by the devil. You climb up a decrepit set of stairs, which look like the Khmer Rouge might have […]

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Moving to Cambobia

September 27, 2006 – 1:53 am

Prior to the coup d’etat in Thailand, the caretaker minister announced a crackdown on visa-runs for westerners. Rumors rode roughshod over facts and drunken farangs were contemptuously announcing if Thailand didn’t want their money, then Cambodia would welcome them like the Vietnamese Army vanquishing the Khmer Rouge in 1979. I bit my tongue rather than […]

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