He calls himself Maestro Wu, tall, thin gangly and absorbed in his workshop at the back of his store. Along one wall is welding equipment, lathes, sharpening blocks and along another stack upon stack of old artillery shells, caked with soil and rust, dug up from fields in the Taiwanese island of Kinmen – just […]
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Travel – Cambodia
In half an afternoon, from the elegant poolside of the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, we were in what must be one of the most perfect small cultural destinations in the world. Just over a decade ago, like Babylon in Iraq, Siem Riep in Cambodia was a war-torn place, wracked by fear and distrust. It was […]
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