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My last day here and it's off with David and Soriya first heading south on route 6 towards phnom penh to see David's new house. We pick up his wife and son close to the local market and turn off the main road down a dusty road, through rice fields and sparsely clustered houses eventually arriving at his newly built house. He has managed to find the funds to buy the small piece of land and built this modest two story brick and concrete house. The setting is lovely, a Wat lies close by and cattle aimlessly graze here and there. There is a local hut come shop that sells the essentials, gasoline, sweets and cigarettes. David's son is now getting on for two, he nearly shares the infamous date of the 8th February as his birthday and was born the day before we arrived two years ago. He looks like David and can now walk and talk and looks healthy and happy, no mean feat in this country of such high infant mortality. The house fills the small plot of land and is almost a two storey shell. As you enter through large glazes doors the main room in the full height of the building, halfway back is the upper floor own to the main room, under this is a small room and behind it the kitchen, washing room and the door to the small yard area where the cooking is done on a charcoal brazier. Upstairs there is another small room and the open area that opens onto the main room. It's the sort of safety hazard that would have the child taken into care in the uk... All this is set under a pitched corrugated metal roof that is hot in the baking Cambodian sun and noisy in the torrential Cambodian rain, but, as David explains it was cheaper than the cooler flat steel and concrete alternative. He has worked hard for this and although modest and still unfinished, it is quite an achievement for a Siem Reap taxi driver and he can now provide his family with a home, something he thought might never happen. He lives here with his wife and son, also his two brothers live here too. The older is also a driver but has no car of his own so works for a tour company, work us scarce... and his younger brother who is still studying.
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