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Robert Carry

Phnom Penh’s dumping ground

Last update: 12:09 | 09.07.09 | © Metro Éireann

I had one day left in Cambodia before I flew on to Australia to try my hand at being an immigrant, and Stueng Meanchey was the last place on my list of places to visit. My motodup-driving friend Narun was confused and alarmed by this, because Stueng Meanchey

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Paradise lost?

Last update: 15:50 | 02.07.09 | © Metro Éireann

A lengthy journey by motorbike and make-shift ferry brought me to Mekong Island and the home of my Cambodian friend Narun – an orphaned Khmer Rouge survivor and former soldier turned motodup driver and family man. Most Cambodians survive on less than a

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Crossing the Mekong

Last update: 16:15 | 25.06.09 | © Metro Éireann

My Cambodian moto-dup driver made the mistake of casually inviting me to his rural home for a night or two, and I quickly grabbed the opportunity to see a part of the country not on the tourist trail with what I’m sure he perceived as disconcerting enthusiasm.

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Getting to know Narun

Last update: 13:01 | 18.06.09 | © Metro Éireann

With the Songkran festival quickly fading to a blurry memory, I had two weeks to kill in southeast Asia before I was due to arrive in Australia as an immigrant. Naturally money was tight, which made my next destination – probably the only liveable country

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Robert Carry: an Irishman abroad - Wedding in paradise

Last update: 12:28 | 28.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

So there we were – a rag-tag assortment of Carrys and other hangers-on, waiting around on a beach on the southern most tip of the Thai peninsula, close to the Malaysian border. We were gathered there ahead of the marriage of Irish girl Emma and Columbian

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Robert Carry: An Irishman Abroad

Last update: 12:00 | 14.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

Two weeks before I was due to book my flights to Australia, I got a call from my globetrotting sister who’s currently residing in New Zealand. It was very good news: she was getting married to her beloved Colombian boyfriend – in my beloved Thailand.

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Robert Carry: An Irishman Abroad - Bound for Down Under

Last update: 00:40 | 07.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

So there I was – back in a grey, drizzle-splattered Dublin housing estate after eight months working for a magazine in bubbling, hectic Thailand. The months back home ticked by slowly, and my new environment began to feel like a sensory deprivation tank.

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Home, but not for long

Last update: 16:05 | 05.02.09 | © Metro Éireann

My homebound flight cut into Dublin at an angle which gave me a great view of the city below. It looked as grey, damp and low-key as ever, but I couldn’t help but get excited, so much so that when the plane rolled to a stop and the seatbelt signs pinged

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‘The thoughts of leaving horrified me’

Last update: 18:03 | 29.01.09 | © Metro Éireann

My farewell to Thailand was somewhat rushed in that I arrived in Bangkok from Cambodia a day-and-a-half before I had to fly home. I was shattered from my trip and dry retching at the thought of the long haul ahead, but was easily talked into a farewell piss-up

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Behind the smiles

Last update: 05:15 | 22.01.09 | © Metro Éireann

Looking around at Bangkok in the days before I flew home, I was struck by how different it appeared in comparison to when I arrived for the first time. Living in the Land of Smiles for the best part of a year had made me see it in an entirely different light.

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Under siege

Last update: 05:27 | 15.01.09 | © Metro Éireann

I arrived back in Thailand after my trip to Cambodia to find the country’s capital in turmoil. Before I left I had come across government buildings occupied by thousands of PAD (People’s Alliance for Democracy) protesters attempting to oust

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Wealthy milking Cambodia’s poor

Last update: 15:32 | 18.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

I headed out of Phnom Penh towards Bangkok on a road backed up by a noisy convoy of cars, buses and flat-back trucks crammed with cheering, flag-waving Cambodians dressed in yellow. The country’s third ever democratic election was about to get underway.

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Living the dream?

Last update: 12:31 | 11.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

I was busy sweating uncomfortably on a gritty beachside deckchair in 30-odd degree heat in the emerging Cambodian beachside resort of Sihanoukville, when all of a sudden an idea occurred to me.

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Poverty abounds in Cambodia’s paradise

Last update: 04:04 | 04.12.08 | © Metro Éireann

After the trauma of researching my article on weapons proliferation in Cambodian society – which had itself come hot on the heels of a terrifying bout against a professional Muay Thai fighter in Bangkok, and a distressing trip to Burma that ended with

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