Feeling no better this morning we decided it was time to seek some medical treatment! The staff member at the front desk must have thought we looked pretty sick because he arranged a tuk tuk to drive us the 250 metres to the medical centre/pharmacy!! If we had known it was that close we probably would have attempted to walk it!!?? The pharmacy would not dispense drugs without us seeing a Doctor which is probably a good thing rather than handing over pharmaceuticals like they are lollies?! So the (Singapore trained) Doctor and his nurse examined us (BP (normal), temperature (normal), palpated our abdomens (gassy) and listened to our hearts and chest) and quizzed us about the duration and severity of our symptoms. He then prescribed an antibiotic, something to stop the diarrhoea, something to relieve ... read more

Oh dear, our plans for today did not get off to a good start!! It was our intention to rise early to go down to the river front for some early morning photos of the Grant Palace and life on the river. Unfortunately though, our stomachs were in a state of flux!!! So, we skipped breakfast!! At 9.30am we met our driver, Mr Ra, for the trip back to the airport. It was all very vague at the airport with flights only being added to the departures screen progressively. For a long time we were a bit concerned that we may have had the wrong day or that our flight may have been cancelled?! Just an hour before flight time, check-in finally opened. Despite having a Vietnam Airlines flight number, which we thought meant that we ... read more

This morning, after breakfast, we walked to the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda complex which is pretty much just around the corner from our accommodation. Although the roofs and ornate gilding are described as being classic Khmer, the buildings bear a striking resemblance to the Royal Palace in Bangkok. As it is still the official residence of King Sihamoni, much of the compound is out-of-bounds to tourists. Even so there is plenty to see by the time you explore the palace and the pagoda and the grounds and courtyards that are accessible to visitors. From the Royal Palace we walked around the corner to the National Museum of Cambodia. The building that houses the museum was built in 1917-20, but to a traditional design so it looks much older. It has a very pleasing symmetry about ... read more

After a good night’s sleep and a leisurely breakfast we took the shuttle bus back to the airport. The airport is only about 400 metres from the airport ‘as the crow flies’, but there isn’t really a path to walk from one to the other. By the time that the shuttle negotiates the roads between the airport and the hotel I am sure it must cover about 1½ kilometres!! We talked to an English couple on the shuttle bus who are just about doing our trip in reverse. They were off to Laos before Cambodia, where we were headed to Cambodia first and Laos second. The most notable thing that occurred on our flight from Bangkok to Phnom Penh was that the guy across the aisle from Bernie managed to spray his little UHT milk container ... read more

With less than two hours stopover in Hong Kong we headed for the Qantas lounge anyway. By the time that you are processed as a transit passenger it doesn’t leave very much time at all before you are re-boarding the plane! For the last couple of days in London I kept thinking there was something that I wanted to check on the internet. Somewhere over Russia I remembered that the project that I had been working on at the office before going on holiday was supposed to ‘go live’ on 30 June. Gosh, I must have been having a great holiday to forget that??! My excuse is that I also had to remember to vote on my new Agency Agreement. I remembered to do that and then must have had a brain fade!! So, I logged ... read more