First of all I have to get used to calling my new home Chbar Mon, Kampong Speu is the province not the town.   8am - Ate breakfast in a cafe just up the road from guest house, ordered everything in Khmer - that means I have to have chicken with rice and an iced coffee. 9am Coffee break - I actually thought I must have been walking for a couple of hours. I am now at the market cafe looking at a very good market - it is huge but like most spread over quite an a...

Here's how I found my second house in Cambodia. No before I tell you about the house I will talk about getting my luggage to the guest house from where the bus dropped us off.  Sokha wasn't sure where in Kampong Speu we had to be, so sadly we were dropped off too early. In PP you can't go anywhere without hearing Tuk Tuk - it's not going to be so easy here!! Luckily I only had my case and large sports bag, everything else is still in PP waiting to be collected. ...

Well I thought I had seen everything this country has to offer - actually I have never thought that as I am fully aware that there is a side of Cambodia that if I went to the wrong part of town I would see all too clearly!! Any way back to my side of Cambodia, I have seen sick children on the back of a motorbike with their drip attached, pigs just laying across the back of a bike, a man asleep on the railings of a cart (no wider than your hand), men mending hole...

This week has been spent in the office and living in Burly Guest House. It is a lovely guest house which is clean and tidy but after having my own house I realise I only like being in a hotel when on holiday. Last night I did something I have not done since I was a child. I am not actually sure I did it then except around the yard at Gaysham. What you may be asking yourself did she do, was it sensible, should she have done it??? The answer I have to say is no sh...

Lest We Forget - Part 1 - I am sitting in a cafe waiting for Kat to finish her tour of the Toul Sleng Prison Museum. For several reasons I have gone around quicker (including the fact I have visited it before). I am pleased that they have changed very little. The main change however is for the better, they have put in a classroom area where 3 times a week they give lectures about the atrocities. This, I think, is a good thing as I don't think it is the rememberi...