Even with hardly any sleep due to the noise on the main street and the cleaning going on at 4am we loved this hostel. No rats, no mosquitoes, hot showers, people, $5 each and great food! Today we had a few hours to kill before heading back to Samrong so we headed to the Russian market. With 11 months and 2 weeks to go, now is not the time to be buying gifts and things for our house. The main aim.... a new iphone 5 cable - unable to strike any deals we ended up ...

Happy Birthday to our gorgeous little man Robbie! We hope you liked your bike!! Today's plan was to visit the Killing Fields at Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng Genocidal Museum. But before this..... Bread WITH Nutella! We weren't missing that again! One thing that brightened up the hour and a half journey.... a man who was texting as he rode his motorbike flew past us, dodging traffic. 5 minutes later, all the traffic dodging him whilst he tried to collect his phone...

29 new bites when Char woke up.... a running total of 60 Vs Matt's 20 (See photo). Matt is yet to be bitten by a mosquito. Today the sun is not out, not that we have been basking in it yet anyway! Maybe this was a sign of the gloomy 'Test Day Thursday' that the children all dread. For this reason, our lessons were only 40 minutes long. Big news..... We had CHIPS!! Bad news.... They were accompanied by cold cabbage and egg soup. It sounds awful but when hot it ...

Today is Chinese New Year, it was noodles for breakfast and then onto our class, covering the subject. The bell rang early for a 'SPECIAL' lunch, as we walked into the kitchen Matt's words were.... "I'm going to be sick!" The bowl on the table consisted of the week's vegetables, mixed with bits of meat plus the fat. Char tried her best to pick out some of the veg to make it look like we had attempted it. But she is not one to eat tiny bits of fat on bacon, never ...

The bite ratio Char 14: Matt 4 ant bites to say how many mosquitoes there are we are doing pretty well! For breakfast we were delighted to find bread on the table even if it was dry but as we got to our final bite we heard "Mamma sorry, Mamma sorry!!" Mamma had forgotten to put out the jam and Nutella! Even so it was incredible. Far better than rice/noodle soup. Today's lessons went well, with no children walking out.... Bonus! We have made a break through wit...