Last night as I left work the girls asked if I wanted to join them for something to eat. We went to one of the back streets to what just seems like a house with a table outside. I think it is a way alot of woman earn extra money, they just cook more food than their family wants when someone turns up. We sat at one table and whatever we ate the family also had. It was delicious, a real mixture of tastes, mostly deep fried which is unusual here as most of the food is stir fried or steamed.

One dish I wasn't sure about. I think I may have eaten embryo eggs disguised as battered boiled eggs. I had to leave it as I didn't like the look or taste but everything else - scrumptious. My problem would be ordering, as there is no menu and I don't know if we had what was on offer or the family had what we ordered!!

This morning I thought I would go and look for the flower farm. I know I t is somewhere near here and the pictures are lovely as it is flower season. Off we went, Sidney was behaving beautifully and the scenery was just breathtaking. Hills, farms, flowers everywhere and clean clean air. I went for about 15km towards the border, saw nothing that could be a flower farm so I turned around and I took a side road that I knew would bring me back to Pailin by another route.

It was round the first corner that I was stopped by the police. Now being stopped by the police in England is straight forward. You are arrested or sent on your way having been told to turn your lights on. In Cambodia I had been warned it is different. As I said I was stopped and the policeman looked at me, I grinned, he grinned, he looked at the Sidney and said something about the brakes and sent me on my way!!

Another first - I hope all my encounters with the police is as pleasant.