Next stop Bangkok and then Bali...
We've been in Sihanoukville for the last 2 days enjoying the beach and then sun when it's been out (it rained yesterday morning). It's great here but we have to get back to Bangkok here for our flight to Bali tomorrow evening. That involves a boat trip to the Thai border and then a bus to Bangkok and an arrival time of around midnight....the plane goes at 7pm the next day.
In Kampot we had some interesting experiences...we went on a day trip up to see one of the old colonial towns that is now a ruin on the top of a mountain. The views were really incredible but it took 90 minutes to get up there and 90 to come down again. No problem on a normal road but when you are sitting 10 in the back of a truck and the "road" is impassable by western standards it gets pretty difficult! We're grown accustomed to "numb bum" but now we're getting over "bruised bum"!!
So being thrown all over the place we also had our guide shouting in Franglais "Attention! Spikey one!" which meant that a thorny plant was overhanging and we all had to duck. I managed to get hit by one which drew some blood just above my hairline which had some of our fellow passengers concerned...but not as concerned as when a spider dropped from one of the overhanging branches down a French girls top - she screamed and screamed - it was very funny!
Having enjoyed the views we got ready for the trip back down and it was all going ok (although certainly not smoothly), until it poured with rain - there is no cover in the back of these trucks. Michelle and I just got soaked - all the others had towels or coats of some sort to cover them but we didn't have anything! Having recovered from that it then rained hard again further down!
Still, an interesting day! We then got the share taxi to Sihanoukville from Kampot where we played "how many Cambodian's can you fit in a car". We had been warned so we bought three tickets instead of two so that we had the comfort of just three in the back seat. In the front there were two per seat - apparently Cambodains think it's normal to fit 8 in a car - 4 in the front and 4 in the back!! The trip was less than 2 hours so not too bad.
Now we've got our fingers crossed that the boat trip isn't too choppy as we have heard they use river boats for trips down the coast line...and of course that England take more wickets in the Ashes! I can't believe they picked Giles over Monty but there we go...with Harmison seemingly out of sorts and Anderson not quite there yet I think Flintoff now has to take 5 for in both innings and Hoggie 3 for us to have any chance of taking 10 wickets. I hope I'm proved wrong!
I caught the last 50 mins of the England v SA rugby game...please come from depth at pace England...1st phase or 20th phase!
Off to wake up Michelle now and get the boat...
In Kampot we had some interesting experiences...we went on a day trip up to see one of the old colonial towns that is now a ruin on the top of a mountain. The views were really incredible but it took 90 minutes to get up there and 90 to come down again. No problem on a normal road but when you are sitting 10 in the back of a truck and the "road" is impassable by western standards it gets pretty difficult! We're grown accustomed to "numb bum" but now we're getting over "bruised bum"!!
So being thrown all over the place we also had our guide shouting in Franglais "Attention! Spikey one!" which meant that a thorny plant was overhanging and we all had to duck. I managed to get hit by one which drew some blood just above my hairline which had some of our fellow passengers concerned...but not as concerned as when a spider dropped from one of the overhanging branches down a French girls top - she screamed and screamed - it was very funny!
Having enjoyed the views we got ready for the trip back down and it was all going ok (although certainly not smoothly), until it poured with rain - there is no cover in the back of these trucks. Michelle and I just got soaked - all the others had towels or coats of some sort to cover them but we didn't have anything! Having recovered from that it then rained hard again further down!
Still, an interesting day! We then got the share taxi to Sihanoukville from Kampot where we played "how many Cambodian's can you fit in a car". We had been warned so we bought three tickets instead of two so that we had the comfort of just three in the back seat. In the front there were two per seat - apparently Cambodains think it's normal to fit 8 in a car - 4 in the front and 4 in the back!! The trip was less than 2 hours so not too bad.
Now we've got our fingers crossed that the boat trip isn't too choppy as we have heard they use river boats for trips down the coast line...and of course that England take more wickets in the Ashes! I can't believe they picked Giles over Monty but there we go...with Harmison seemingly out of sorts and Anderson not quite there yet I think Flintoff now has to take 5 for in both innings and Hoggie 3 for us to have any chance of taking 10 wickets. I hope I'm proved wrong!
I caught the last 50 mins of the England v SA rugby game...please come from depth at pace England...1st phase or 20th phase!
Off to wake up Michelle now and get the boat...
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