Yesterday was spent meeting up with Bunthorn and hearing all about his plans to do a Masters degree. We then had lunch with a slowly recovering Ian. This morning I felt I wanted a treat so I asked the receptionist where can I get a shampoo, she said turn left until you get to the market. At the end of this very expat street is a very local market. Now when I was here before I bought a knife that is great - still using it when in England - and I have been meani...

Back in Kampot and loving it. I am in a guest house with a pool and have met an English man (works in PP) and a German woman (travelling alone) so have people to eat dinner with. Yesterday I hired a scooter called Bert and went to the salt fields - they were amazing. For the first time I saw them being worked. Luckily I got up early and was out there by 8am and then spent over an hour going down every path that I was happy to go down. I saw preparation - lots of...

Managed to catch a bus at 9.45am and was in Tressco Cafe by 12.15. As you would expect I was recognized but sadly no Bunthorn or Wifi (the whole country is having power cuts - often for 4 hours at a time). I sat down to wait for one or the other. Bunthorn arrived first having realized that I couldn’t message without wifi. He took me to the hotel - it was lovely. I had never seen it in all my time there as it is set back behind one of the sales areas. Late aft...

Spent my first day back in Cambodia meeting up with old friends and colleagues from VSO. Went to the office during the day and saw everyone that I still knew there, the hospital in the afternoon where I saw Ian and in the evening I met up with Jeremy and Beata. As I came over night from Siem Reap, I also arrived early enough to see Sheila before she left for the airport and her flight home. Almost what you could call a full house.

Mai Chau is a long way to go for a day tour but as I only have one day left I felt it would be worth it and it was. I have to say it was not promising- the bus was 50mins late and as we stopped on the mountain pass, to view the valley below all we could see was fog - thick dark fog. However we went a little higher over the actual summit of the pass and it was as if we had gone into another land. It was clear and by the time we reached Mai Chau itself it was clea...