Spent today with The Cambodia Trust and what an amazing day it was! My thanks go to Mary Scott and Jan Nye for allowing me to spend time at the clinic and also Lim Eng, one of the CBR workers, with whom I spent the morning in Kandal Strung District meeting four patients - 3 ladies with polio and 1 gentleman with a prosthetic arm. Lim Eng herself lost her leg in a landmine accident in 1982 and she has worked with CT for 11 years. She clearly loves her job. After ...

I've been unable to get in touch with my contact at The Cambodia Trust Clinic and so ended up spending this morning dragging my heels around the streets of Phnom Penh. By 1pm I decided that it was fruitless to just wander and so travelled an hour out of the city to a place called Oudong. Oudong is located just off Route 5 and was the former capital of Cambodia from the early 17th Century until 1866 when the capital was moved to Phnom Penh. The old royal city of ...

I think the heat & action-packed days have finally got to me! Sak left at 8am to return to Battambang and I moved to my new hotel - The Anise Phnom Penh - located just around the corner from the National Monument (above photo), in the heart of the NGO district, around noon. Fortunately my room was ready so I thought I'd dump my bags and freshen up before heading out into the city. I sat on the edge of the bed to change my t-shirt and woke up 4 hours later! So...

We headed out early this morning and were going to visit the zoo in Takeo Province but decided to spend more time in Phnom Penh City, visiting Sak's Uncle for lunch and then paying a visit to Tuol Sleng S-21 Genocide Museum. Sak has not visited S-21 since the mid-1980's (shortly after it was turned into a museum) and I knew the visit was going to be very difficult for him. He became very upset shortly after we arrived and I felt helpless to comfort him. I gave h...

Left Battambang by car at 8am after a very difficult set of goodbyes. All of Sak's family - his wife (Theara), 3 daughters (Chakrya, Borromey & Holly) and his son (Chamnap) turned up at the hotel to wave me off. Yes, as predicted, I cried! (See photos in 'Battambang' album). Sak was travelling down to Phnom Penh with me and decided to take me for coffee first at his local streetside cafe - probably because he didn't want a weeping woman sitting next to him in...