Good afternoon from a Dave who is back in Phnom Penh! I returned this morning from my stint in the absolute back of beyond, helping out with the English teaching at an organisation called the ETO - Educational Training Organisation - in the middle of the countryside in the Takeo Province of Cambodia. I thoroughly enjoyed the teaching - just three classes a day of about an hour to an hour and a half - two of them with kids aged from 5 to 12...and abilities to matc...

Good afternoon once more from the Cambodian capital, from where I have not yet strayed since my arrival a week ago. I have, however, finally managed to sort out somewhere to offer my limited services as a volunteer, a hundred or so kilometres south of here, and will be leaving tomorrow or Wednesday to go and work for around a week as an English teacher/babysitter/whatever is needed of me, staying with, I believe, a local family in a small town in the countryside....

Hello hello from Phnom Penh - been here just for the one night so far, staying in a hostel on the lakeside with awesome views of the sunset - part of the restaurant is a boat moored up at the end of the backyard...pretty nice. The temples at Angkor that I saw from Siem Reap were inspirational - the detail of the carvings and the size of the statues of various incarnations of Hindu and Buddhist deities was awesome. Angkor Wat itself was probably the most "imp...