February 11 Photo of the Day: Cambodia

Key Maker and Cyclists - Siem Reap, Cambodia © 2015 Peter Marble

December 14, 2004 – Early on our last day in Siem Reap, our adopted Tuk-Tuk driver, Mr. Tan, drove us into town for a final walk-about:

Traffic into the city centre was busy:

We passed numerous construction sites for new 5-star hotels where most work was done by hand.

Before heading to the airport, Lesa made one last attempt at sending/receiving email:

February 9 Photo of the Day: Chilean Patagonia

Vapor Amadeo at San Gregorio in Magellanes, Chilean Patagonia © 2015 Peter Marble

November 15, 2008 – On our way back to Punta Arenas from El Calafate via Rio Gallegos (affectionately known as the ugliest city in Argentina:

• Ginger Sees The World
• Google Books
• Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forum
• Tripadvisor

... a moniker with which we wholeheartedly agree), we spotted the lonely wreck of the steamship Amadeo.

Apparently she was built in Liverpool in 1884, sold to J. Menéndez of Punta Arenas in 1892 and finally beached here in 1932.