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Arriving in Phnom Penh | Anthony Healy | Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh

Cambodia is one of the most beautiful places in the world. It’s just a shame the people who live there insist on killing each other. Where the wide and silent Tonle Sap River meets the mighty Mekong

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Aviation - the theory and practice of operating aircraft | Anthony Healy

One of the finest statements of the twentieth century was made by Baroness Von Blixen, the Danish author and philanthropist, who said: “One does not travel by air. One is merely sent, like a parcel.”

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Cambodian Culture & The Criminal Element | Anthony Healy

How culpable are tourists in the looting of Cambodian temples? I was concerned about poverty-stricken peasants forced to loot temples in an attempt to find a better quality of life

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Dublin - A grouch on St Patrick’s Day | Anthony Healy | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Don’t get me wrong, I love Dublin. I love the way one can walk around the city. I love the fact that people still talk to one as if one is a human being. Dublin has its attractions

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Emergency Airlift [when the local hospital has a dirt floor] | Anthony Healy

Sometimes things go seriously wrong and one finds oneself in a foreign land with a friend or relation who is seriously ill. The local hospital has a dirt floor and a newly installed generator

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Lisbon | Anthony Healy | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

From the wide River Tagus the visitor is welcomed by a vista of white stone buildings under burnt amber-tiled roofs, which carpets an amphitheatre, scooped into the hills

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Ship Ahoy! | Anthony Healy

Welcome. Bienvenue. Willkommen. Say hello to the wonderful world of ferries, the art of getting you and your car across a body of water. It shouldn’t be that difficult, but there’s something unmistakably

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