On the Thursday I was actually feeling much better. And who said McDonalds isn’t good for you? I got some breakfast, they do great fruit with yoghurt and muesli at the street stalls, and wandered around a few shops. There are a lot of street stalls here selling weird and wonderful fare. There’s the expected […]
Read the rest of Thursday 22nd May – Bangkok
The journey from the Cambodian border to Bangkok was a long one but it was relatively comfortable, once in the minibus at least. We stopped in Pattaya en route and, when I was informed by my fellow travelers that it was one of the sex capitals of Bangkok, I was pleased that I had decided […]
Read the rest of Wednesday 21st May – Bangkok
Having slept slightly better than the previous night I awoke to torrential rain. I got a motorbike to the area where the bus was to leave from. The motorbike driver gave me a really attractive, yellow macintosh to wear and then kept nearly crashing when trying to pull my hood up for me! One of […]
Read the rest of Wednesday 21st May – Sihanoukville to Bangkok, Thailand
So after a slightly dodgy journey the previous day I decided that the best plan was to do very little and to chill out on the beach. The beaches in Sihanoukville are beautiful and the sea was really warm. Partly due to the events of the previous day and partly due to continued warnings I […]
Read the rest of Monday 19th May – Tuesday 20th May – Sihanoukville
Sorry to back track but I realised that I had not put anything on my blog about the scorpion! So…. I was walking back to the Garden Village guesthouse (in Siem Reap if you didn’t guess from the title) one night after going to the shop. It wasn’t crazily late but was late enough to […]
Read the rest of Siem Reap and the scorpion! (and sensitive plant!).
On the Friday I had entrusted my precious laundry to the guesthouse who I hoped would return it immaculately washed and pressed and smelling of orchids. What I didn’t bet on was them returning some of my laundry (i.e. with some items missing) and someone else’s laundry. When I took the said items downstairs to […]
Read the rest of Sunday 18th May – Crimebodia
On Saturday I decided to visit the above, which are two of the main toursit draws of Phnom Penh. They were set in immaculate grounds and polished gardens. The Palace was quite amazing with gold everywhere. There were various, relatively uninteresting artefacts in display cabinets and enough Buddhas to start a veritable Buddha colony. The […]
Read the rest of Saturday 17th May – The Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda
On the Friday the tuk tuk driver I had arranged to collect me in the morning failed to do so. This wasn’t a problem as it’s basically the low season here and they are all desperate for business so it was easy enough to find another. I think I explained the background behind S21 very […]
Read the rest of Friday 16th May – Phnom Penh: S21, the killing fields and an insane shopping mall
In the evening I decided to go and get some dinner and then went for a couple of drinks. I went to a bar with a couple of groups of locals sat having their dinner. They left shortly after I arrived – they had finished eating before you start getting any ideas! I got talking […]
Read the rest of Thursday 15th May – Phnom Penh – that evening
So after getting (probably unfairly) disillusioned with my previous guesthouse I decided to move to a different area of town. Having previously been at the lake side area I decided to move closer to the town centre and found a place by the river side Phnom Penh is very different from Siem Reap. It’s a […]
Read the rest of Thursday 15th May – Phnom Penh