This topic was inspired by my conversation with @Dennis3450 and how he reminded me of how I wanted to go to Angel’s Landing in Utah. I have so many photos of it saved on my phone but I’m no longer as active and will need months of training to get fit again for this. It looks so so beautiful.
If anyone has been here, let me know how the hike was!
To live in Cambodia - such wonderful happy people, great fun and humour, great vibes as soon as you hit the tarmac.
I’m English - miserable people miserable weather too.
To walk again among the Mountains of Mourne, where i played as a child, grew up as a youth and walked together with my life partner as an adult.
Don McCleans haunting song with this video brings back so many memories - I recognize so much of the landscape - Ballymaghery Church where i made my first communion, the Hen Mountain where I’d run, Silent Valley for a fun day out…
We English are miserable. We love being miserable too. When you ask an English person who is in perfect health and fitness how they are, they will typically say, “Well, not too bad…”
I love that. Here in the US I guess the equivalent is saying “Oh it’s going.” when someone asks you how’s it going. But that’s rare. Mostly we say “goodhowareyou” without looking at each other. It’s terrible lol.
Wow - You’ve been to Cambodia - you have nothing more to hope from life !
I left my heart in Cambodia - one day I will be back to claim it.
The food - well I’m not a food person but I suppose it’s a bit like Thai, though I did try to chastise my Cambodian girlfriend for eating rats - she just said “Don’t tell me what to do in Cambodia !”
I think you really need to live there for a while to appreciate the ‘working anarchy’ of Cambodia otherwise it’s just magnificent temples and dreadful history.
I could write a book about about the people, their sense of fun and wit, no wokey political correctness - if the world was full of Cambodians it would be a better place. And to think what they have endured.
If you say it in a funny way (?) I guess it’s possible for it to not sound as miserable lol.
I used to say “Still alive!” but after covid, now that has true meaning haha. And I’m not sure it will be funny for someone to hear if they’ve actually lost a family member/friend to covid.
I’ve only been to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and only for a few days. I will never forget this one dude selling doves inside a cage. You pay him money so he can let them go Guess who paid hahaha. It was awesome.