"To me he [Nhem En seen with KR memorabilia for sale] was one of the most evil men I ever met and should be locked up, but it turned out he was deputy governor of a district, because the Khmer Rouge are still sort of in charge." - Dom Jolly (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)
Bargain hunting ... Dom was tempted to buy Khmer Rouge dictator Pol Pot's shoes for £500,000Monday, September 06, 2010
By DOM JOLY
Excerpt from The Sun (UK)
COMEDIAN and travel writer Dom Joly has journeyed the globe - only to discover that his weird take on life as portrayed in his show Trigger Happy TV is not a patch on bizarre behaviour in the real world. His particular joy is to visit where the average holidaymaker would never dream of going.
Now he has written a book - The Dark Tourist - about his experiences.
Here he takes us through a few of his odder adventures...
I'M not really sure why I have this desire to travel to strange places.
But because I grew up in Lebanon, I always quite liked the fact that people would say: "Oh, that must be dodgy."
I quite liked feeling: "Yeah, I'm a bit tough," whereas I actually knew there are some really nice bits of Lebanon.
Even so, I think that just growing up there naturally gave me a slight adrenalin fixation. I get really bored on normal holidays. I don't like beaches.
I think a lot of the world has been kind of Starbucks-ised.
About the only places you can go to now to learn something new, sadly, are these kind of dodgy places I find so interesting.
CAMBODIA
ON day one I was sitting by the swimming pool and a man came up and said: "Would you like to meet a man selling Pol Pot's shoes?" Of course I would.
So I went with this guy miles out of town to this house. This other guy came in and after we chatted, he fetched some shoes and a camera.
Please click here to read more...
Now he has written a book - The Dark Tourist - about his experiences.
Here he takes us through a few of his odder adventures...
I'M not really sure why I have this desire to travel to strange places.
But because I grew up in Lebanon, I always quite liked the fact that people would say: "Oh, that must be dodgy."
I quite liked feeling: "Yeah, I'm a bit tough," whereas I actually knew there are some really nice bits of Lebanon.
Even so, I think that just growing up there naturally gave me a slight adrenalin fixation. I get really bored on normal holidays. I don't like beaches.
I think a lot of the world has been kind of Starbucks-ised.
About the only places you can go to now to learn something new, sadly, are these kind of dodgy places I find so interesting.
CAMBODIA
ON day one I was sitting by the swimming pool and a man came up and said: "Would you like to meet a man selling Pol Pot's shoes?" Of course I would.
So I went with this guy miles out of town to this house. This other guy came in and after we chatted, he fetched some shoes and a camera.
Please click here to read more...
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