So I eventually arrived in Phnom Penh on the bus in the evening. I headed to the lakeside area of the city on the recommendation of someone at the guesthouse in Siem Reap. When I arrived and checked into the guesthouse the room I was shown seemed very small but I can cope with that kind of thing and arguably this was due to my room being mahusive at the guesthouse in Siem Reap. I then realised that there was no water and when I asked a member of staff he turned a stopcock on at the wall. I thought nothing of this (learn girl learn) and went to have dinner. I decided to opt for the traditionally Cambodian dish of vegetarian pizza which was lovely! While I was eating I asked the waitress where I could buy shampoo (whilst doing the obligatory gestures), she looked slightly confused but suggested I go to the Russian market in the morning. I thought this was a bit strange especially when I asked if there were any shops closer and she said no. Later she asked a friend who came to talk to me. He said, "So you want to buy hair?" I was like, "No, shampoo!". He proceeded to call his friend a stupid idiot and we all burst into fits of giggles.<\/p>\n
When I returned to the guesthouse I got cleaned up and went to bed. The bathroom appeared to be making far too many dripping noises and, when it finally got to the stage that I couldn’t stand it any more, I went and asked at reception. Firstly they didn’t really understand and went and played with something downstairs. I asked what they had done and they said that they always needed to do "that" to get the water to the third floor. Then when I repeated that my bathroom was flooding they got annoyed and asked why I didn’t tell them. When the man came upstairs he scratched his head for a while and made annoyed noises. Then he came up with the brilliant solution of turning the main stopcock off and only turning the water on when I wanted to use it. I pointed out that this would not solve the problem of none of the water draining and he scratched his head again. He then suggested that if I did as he had said and only used a small amount of water then this would not fill up enough to leak into the bedroom. I enquired what would happen when I showered the following morning and he again looked puzzled. I eventually negotiated that they move me.<\/p>\n
When I was moved I was in a much larger room with an extra bed. I think I was destined to have a rubbish night’s sleep though and tossed and turned all night due to not being able to get cold enough with the badly positioned fan!<\/p>\n
In all fairness they did change my room to a far nicer one free of charge and the rooms were fine. I think my irritability may have been slightly hormonal which also often means sleeping is a pain. Anyway, enough of those kind of details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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