I was blessed with my dad’s sense of humour – “you’d laugh if your bum was on fire” – my mum would snarl at him, in times of anger and frustration. Perhaps because of this I have found travelling in Asia a wonderful source of hilarity. However at times, it has been a double edged …
It is with somewhat timid reservation that I begin the chronicling of the 2nd part of Bunter’s hi jinks in Asia. Gathering from some of the alluded aspersions cast upon the first instalment methinks that some people have never heard the saying ‘truth is stranger than fiction’. I have no need or desire to embellish …
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For the uninitiated or those too young to remember, Billy Bunter was a comic book hero in vogue during my childhood years in New Zealand. I remember reading with bug-eyed amazement the wonderful shenanigans that he and his hippo-sized, cake-scoffing sister Bessie used to get up to. Set against the backdrop of a conservative English …
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Kicking back in Australia now and reviewing this story from the perspective of hindsight – I can look at it more objectively – at the time it was a nightmare. I took two years off from life in Sydney in 05 and bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok. I visited Cambodia four times during my …