Life in a Haunted Mansion
I rarely live in the same place for very long. The longest I’ve lived anywhere as an adult is when I lived in a…
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Admiral’s Row in the Navy Stockyard
The fence surrounding the abandoned Navy Stockyard is old and fancy, with wrought iron bars topped in vicious looking spearpoints. Good. The fancier a…
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The Plants are Running the Greenhouse
We’ve been searching for hours, and we’ve finally found it. We amble nonchalantly past a cop car, which drives by and leaves us be….
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The Agora Building in Melbourne
I’d spotted the boarded up windows of the majestic old building while walking through Melbourne. Whenever I find a beautiful old building that looks…
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Angkor Wat
According to legend, Angkor Wat was taken directly from the heavens and placed fully formed in the city of Angkor. When the French explorer…
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Other People’s Adventures at Angkor
Here’s a collection of other travel bloggers’ posts about Angkor that I’ve enjoyed. Let me know if there’s any particularly great ones you know…
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Phnom Bakheng – the Mountain Temple on the Mountain
The loose dirt and leaves crunched underfoot, small stones skittering by. I placed my foot further up and stepped forward, and suddenly the mountain…
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Reading in the Ruins of Banteay Kdei
When Jayavarman II founded the Khmer empire, he knew it would have to have a magnificent capital, and so he founded Angkor. And he…
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The Trapped Temple of the Baphuon
The Baphuon is that rarest of gems: a trapped temple, set up to destroy anyone who would desecrate it. And then, get this, it…
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Preah Khan – The Rubble in the Jungle
Now this is a ruin. Preah Khan, like its more famous cousin Ta Prohm, has been left largely as it was found, overtaken by…
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