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Life Part Five – not retirement, not a mid-life crisis, just a different way of doing things. It all started with a trip to a tiny, magical island in Cambodia, five years ago… Lying in a hammock, recovering from a debilitating bout of the flu which came with me from the UK, I decided I…

Photo Stories

Photo galleries of our travels and some of the wonderful people and animals we have met along the way 🙂

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Koh Lanta – photo story

By: lifepartfive May 28, 2018Jun 3, 2018

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In 2018 we spent three months living in Koh Lanta, Thailand. For most of that time we worked at a local dive company (check out the Dive Buddies photo story for more) but it’s also where we rescued Little Bean.

Dive buddies – photo story

By: lifepartfive May 25, 2018Jun 3, 2018

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During our time in Koh Lanta, Thailand, we completed our Divemaster training. It’s a pretty tough course where you’re diving almost every day, helping with the dive business, assisting instructors and eventually guiding your own customers. I wish I’d taken more pictures of the people we met but the course was intensive, and most days,…

Koh Rong Samloem – photo story

By: lifepartfive May 23, 2018Jun 3, 2018

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We spent two months on the tiny island of Koh Rong Samloem, Cambodia, working at a resort called Lazy Beach. These are some of my favourite images from our time there.

Little Bean

By: lifepartfive May 22, 2018Jun 3, 2018

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It was just another visit to the tiny waterfront grocery shop opposite our flat. Nothing much was moving in the heat of the afternoon and I had wandered in to pick up some cheap beer and puzzle again at the strange and exotic packages on offer. I heard the high pitched cries as I wandered…

Morning in Koh Lanta

By: lifepartfive Feb 17, 2018Jun 3, 2018

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The sun climbs higher in the eastern sky. At this time of day, just after dawn, the air is silky and cool and my north facing terrace is the perfect place to watch the landscape brighten through pinks and golds. Later, the heat of the tropical sun will press down like an iron fist, flattening…

Meditation at the edge of the jungle

By: lifepartfive Dec 24, 2017Jun 3, 2018

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I have crossed the sea into another world entirely. Modern life brought me here. Planes, trains and cars, online booking and airport terminals. All the tools of contemporary culture coalesced into a pathway, an invisible road that deposited me here and then quietly disappeared. Each day stretches languidly in the heat and I’m aware only…