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Happiness pure and simple in Phnom Penh

February 1st 2013
HE SAID... We woke unusually late at 6.30am. We were leaving Sihanoukville for Phnom Penh at 7.45am, so we had to rush. We ran down to breakfast, where I had muesli with warm milk (it had been cold milk the day before) and Ren had an omelette with toast. We quickly showered, packed and headed to the lobby, where we piled into a public bus at 8am and headed off on our five hour final ... read more
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This blog documents the feeding of our travel addiction - one country at a time. Travel is an essential part of our life, and we'll continue to travel until our addiction wanes (which probably won't be in this lifetime)! The more we travel, the more we see; and the more we see, the more we understand that we know so little - which is a brilliant thing. We love the little corner of south eastern Australia we call home, but we are at our happiest when throwing ourselves into a new adventure and experiencing new cultures. Rather than doing round-the-world trips, our preferred style of trave... full info
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19th February 2013

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Shane Dallas

Excellent!
I've always wanted to capture an image such as this, but it has always eluded me. Either I glimpsed it whilst travelling on a train or bus, or the sleeping official(s) stirred before I had a chance to grab the shot - and you really cannot say to someone "Can you pretend to sleep again whilst I take a photo."
19th February 2013

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Ren & Andrew

Re: Excellent!
Thanks Shane. They stirred as we walked past, but my 'intense and prolonged' interest in a pot plant a few metres away from them put them right back to sleep. I was very nervous taking this pic - their mates had machine guns!

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