Cambodia in the News again – Positive Press!
Always good to see the old country in the mainstream media for positive reasons and this month has seen a couple of welcome bits of promo – this months National Geographic Magazine features Angkor Wat and the Lost Civilisation as a cover story. Nothing very new in the article itself, they printed almost the same cover story back in the 90’s – I’m not a Nat Geo anarak but a friend gave me the earlier copy as a birthday present, after he found it in a house clearance – but some great photos. And a gushing Rick Stein, the British TV Chef and owner of most of Padstow, started his South East Asian TV odyssey in Siem Reap. Loved the country, the people and the markets. Good man. Now if only he’d done it on an XR400 he could have combined three of my favourite hobbies, dirt bike riding in while Cambodia while eating…