Scott Nicholson – The Man with the Golden Mind

My close friend, my favorite American, sometime photographer and fellow traveler, Scott Nicholson died a little over a year ago. About a decade ago, Scott and I and my then wife Aroon traveled through Laos together. One of the locations we visited was the Buddha Park near Vientiane, a neglected unruly collection of concrete sculptures […]

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Tom Vater and Scott Nicholson report on Pussy & The Learjets and Metal Postcard in TTO Magazine

In this Rock’n’Roll double bill, published this month in Traversing the Orient Magazine, Tom Vater reports on Metal Postcard, the Honk Kong independent label that is home to Cambodia’s finest rock band The Cambodian Space Project and the garage punk noise from Bangkok that is Pussy & The Learjets, while Detroit home boy Scott Nicholson […]

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Urlaub in Angkor? Tom Vaters neuer City Trip Reiseführer Angkor und Siem Reap erscheint am 4.1.2011Holidays in Cambodia? Tom Vater´s new German-language guide to Angkor published 4.1.2011

City Trip Angkor und Siem Reap erscheint am 4. Januar 2011 bei Reise Know How. Dieser kompakte Reiseführer zu den atemberaubenden Ruinen des Reiches der Khmer erläutert Geschichte, erklärt Architektur und Hintergründe und soll einen Aufenthalt in der Boomstadt Siem Reap, in der Nähe der sagenhaften Tempel (seit 1992 ein UNESCO Weltkulturerbe und derzeit eines […]

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