Am back in Phnom Penh – left my friend at the beach, as I needed to come back to collect my passport I’d left here. I’d left it deliberately – I was having a visa sorted at the embassy, and rather hang around waiting a few days for it, I thought I’d just double back through. Also, my friend is…[Read more]

I’ve noticed that as time goes by I’m more and more interested in listening to the tales from older travellers and expats than I am in the tales of drunken nights out and debauchery from the younger crowds. (I must be getting old!) Whilst I love talking to all people, I’ve just had a fantastically interesting chat with this gentleman who…[Read more]

Although it’s threatening to, the rain hasn’t started yet this morning ……. look who are having fun on the beach!!

………… And ………. it’s still raining! :-s

Um, it’s still raining. And I’m not talking a drizzle. It has done nothing but pour down since we got here. And, it looks set to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Given that there’s not a lot here but the beaches, and we’re certainly not having sun-bathing weather, we’ll perhaps cut our Sihanoukville stay a bit short. There are…[Read more]

Um, it’s still raining. And I’m not talking a drizzle. It has done nothing but pour down since we got here. And, it looks set to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Given that there’s not a lot here but the beaches, and we’re certainly not having sun-bathing weather, we’ll perhaps cut our Sihanoukville stay a bit short. There are…[Read more]

Hello beach! And, hello perhaps the worst storm yet I’ve seen in Cambodia! Lazy afternoon at the guest house methinks!

Bus booked to go to Sinoukville tomorrow morning – I hope the rain eases off for our few days on the beach. I’m missing my home, my boyfriend and my two mangy street cats now …. I love travelling, but I also love getting home too – I’m thinking of dashing through the next few days to get back. But,…[Read more]

I love things on stilts over water! It was actually raining and miserable on the boat ride – but it was still nice, although a bit cold and damp!

Meeeeeeeeeeeee!

View through a massive bullet hole in the church wall.

Old church

I thought this graffitti in the old royal residence was kind of cool.

Old casino and hotel; they are currently trying to replaster inside and fill in bullet holes – I can only imagine what it was like in its heyday …..

These rocks are meant to look like faces – our guide told us they are sacred ….

Today we did a trip to the Bokor Park and an abandoned hill station area. The area was the scene of intensive fighting between the Khmer Rouge and …. I missed who they were fighting with! But, essentially this area was deserted. There are really pretty views out over the town of Kampot, to the acean and islands, and the…[Read more]

Bus to Kampot booked. Heading there tomorrow morning.