Marina Hotel Sihanoukville

... to remember which seemed to please them no end judging by the laughs I got. We made a couple of other short stops before heading back into town. An awesome day out, makes me want to do a bigger motorbike adventure one day in the style of Charlie Boorman and Ewan McGregor!<br><br>Nearly forgot....I was walking down the road when this bloke accosted me, asking if I'd go with him to his school so that the Pupils could speak English to a native speaker!! Not having ...

... onto my wholesome toast and couldn't wait to go to the airport. That was until a swarthy Thai man propositioned me with an amazing offer, did I ( a woman, aged 30, who just got off a night bus and desperate for some western sanitation) want to go to a ping-pong show? Well, now you ask..... Of course I bloody didn't!! Not whilst there was toast to eat. <br><br>Spent most of the afternoon in the immaculate Bangkok airport (can't even pronounce it so don ...

... wash off the soot, slap some aftersun on and go to bed. <br>The morning after we wake up (well, I did) around 10ish after intending to be up at 6.. with my forehead, again on fire and my bottom lip numb. Strange..but I think Ive just burnt a bit and It'll pass. When I get up (thanks to a kick from Miss Morgan) she says my face looks stange (stanger than normal anyway..) and looks closer. Turns out my face has bistered up from the sun burn. Its all ...

We Caught the bus to Sihanoukville which lies on the west coast of Cambodia. We arrived and booked into a hostel and headed for the beach. We had beers at a beach bar as the tide crept closer and closer to our feet.. It was quality. On the way back we met an Irish couple that we met in Vietnam and they said the place we were staying the bar opens really late and is fairly lively. Our room was nice, cheap but ...

A beach! yay! Had enough of cities for a while so thought Id come and check out the coast for a bit. And its lovely! Beautiful white sand beach, chilled out bars all along the front. Lovely! Only came for 2 nights but ended up staying for 6! Spent most of the days lounging on the beach doing absolutely nothing apart from getting my legs threaded by the beach kids (ouch!) and letting them make me random bracelets that I ...

... br><br> we ventured out on a mission through the jungle to other side of the island, where we heard there was a beautiful stretch of white sand beach. we were thwarted the first attempt by a fairly wide stream that i was reluctant to wade through until we double checked this was the right way and was safe to wade through (it was, we did), but in the end it wasn't The Beach either, so we headed back to our pretty good one and enjoyed ...

... with feta and rice. Bill ordered the beef with pepper. Bill had a glass of red wine and we had a bottle of water. I had 2 bites of my feta and scraped the rest off. It tasted like it was going bad. The prawns were not as bad as this afternoon, but were no where as good as in Vientiane. Bill's beef was OK, but not great. It was served with Shake 'N Bake style potatoes. The meal was $22 and was really only worth $10. Another disappointing meal, we should have stayed at the ...

... meal we had had so far on our travels. All along the beach every reaturant does seafood barbecues, all offering similar deals. We found a place eventually and tucked into all manner of seafood, squid, barracuda, prawns etc. That night we decided a session was in order to celebrate being away for a week so what better place than ''sessions'' beach bar. A bar ran by two pretty doss english blokes from Halifax seemingly intent on giving ...

The highlight of our passage to Sihanoukville was passing through what seemed to be thousands of fishing boats at night , they were so apparent due to the lights they use at night to attract the fish. On arrival at Sihanoukville all these small fishing boats had made their way back into port and were moored near to the ship awaiting another nights fishing. Ashore and transfer to the centre of Sihanoukville by the shuttle bus, with a driver keen to practice his English and give us an ...

... sitting in the driver's cab. As we pushed our way out past the modern-day merchants and seafarers a black highly-polished Volvo containing a number of dour middle-aged Thai men and a woman, just visible behind smoked glass, attempted to drive down the jetty. A small man stood next to me on the pickups tail plate nodded at the car and its passengers and said to me quietly, with a knowing grin 'Mafia'.<br><br>After a night spent in Trat we rose in what seemed like the middle of the ...