OK, so while Tunis is not exactly a tourist Mecca there is enough foot flow to necessitate people deciding to make touristy restaurants that drain your money! Restaurant Essaraya is one of these places. This is something I could at least forgive if they served you a beer, but alas it is dry, with the…
Despite previously positioning myself as slightly left of Pol Pot I now eat big capitalist wanky festivals with free swag. And for all this stuff it does not go much better than the World Travel Market at the Expo Centre down at Customs House in the London Docklands. Here over 50,000 people attend each year…
OK, so while Soriyabori Resort is actually the only real hotel on Kratié, save for a bunch of homestays of differing quality, it could also be argued that it is the best hotel in the whole of Kratié province. Located on the north of Koh Trong, Soriyabori is described as a “confidential resort” of Khmer-style villas,…
Koh Trong, or as it is also called Koh Treung, Keoh Trung, or even កោះទ្រង់, is a river island located in the Mekong just opposite Kratie. It is a little-known tourist gem. In fact it was so unknown that if you Googled it years ago results for Koh Rong would appear instead. That is no…
While microbreweries can often be a hipster nightmare, they are also not without their charms, particularly when they are innovative. And you have to give Craft by Side Hustle credit for being innovative, after all they are the only microbrewery in the Middle East. So is Craft by Side Hustle any good? Is it worth…
While not exactly pumping in the form of Siem Reap, or even Battambang, there is enough going here to attract a couple of great western businesses, as well as there being a banging Street Food Kratie scene. And with its strategic location along the Vientiane to Phnom Penh hippy highway, Kratie is well worth a…
