Tag Archives: tech

iPhone App Review: Angkor in Your Pocket

By popagandhi | Published: 4 February, 2010

In 2005, a 20 year old newbie backpacker trudged through the Cambodian border at Aranyaprathet on foot and her first instinct was to reach for a stack of paper in her 65L backpack. Just to locate the section, “At the Poi Pet border… expect to pay extra for a Cambodian visa”, and additional instructions on [...]

Posted in tech, travel | Also tagged app, apple, asia, backpacking, cambodia, flashpack, iphone, travel, travel guides | 8 Comments

Five things I won’t leave home without

By popagandhi | Published: 2 March, 2009

I can do 40-hour train rides across India. I will share a bed in Marseille with a dreadlocked, horny French boy (long story). I don’t mind riding sampans down a river in Borneo at dawn, with only two hungover boatmen and a torchlight guiding us. I’ll let myself be stuck in middle of bloody nowhere, [...]

Posted in dispatch, general, tech, travel | Also tagged travel | 15 Comments

Baby, You Can Pimp My Shaw

By popagandhi | Published: 6 February, 2009

It’s Friday morning, 8 am — the weekend for me. I haven’t slept, I haven’t left the office, which just means there’s a new eps on fortylove tv. The premise was pure genius. Take an Indian auto-rickshaw. Put foreigner inside. Make foreigner drive 1000 kilometres to the southernmost tip of India in it. I had [...]

Posted in dispatch, general | Also tagged autorickshaw, chennai, fortylove, fortylovetv, india, lola, rickshaw, travel, videos, web | Leave a comment

Martinis for the Monarchy

By popagandhi | Published: 30 January, 2009

New episode on fortylove.tv: if every member of British royal family were to be a drink, what would they be? Our friend Mickael Perron, a champion mixologist — some of you may be a fan: he’s sometimes in Singapore’s cocktail institution, Klee, but mostly at various bars around London — shows us how guerrilla bar-tending [...]

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Fortylove.tv is Rolling

By popagandhi | Published: 22 December, 2008

Forty videos, twenty weeks. Begins now at fortylove.tv. Is English food really bad? Is Dubai really all about malls, construction, and refrigerated beaches and indoor ski resorts? Who in their right mind would travel 1000 kilometres by auto rickshaw in India? (No one, except the 27 contestants of the Rickshaw Challenge.. and.. me, it seems.) [...]