Sunday Guest House Sihanoukville

... paper down the loo- and theres no bin! Also- more cold showers- but they arent really showers its just a shower head next to the toilet! Does the job though. We went for a walk along the beach- well when we eventually found it- because of the amount of rain they have had the beach is under water so we got confused with the directions! We had some lunch- a bagette with runny tuna! Then I went on the beach a bit further down ...

... has a story to tell - hardly suprising given that 20% of the population was wiped out in just four years.<br><br>With Phnom Penh behind me I headed south to Sihanoukville and the Gulf of Thailand. What I was expecting was pristine, undiscovered beaches. What I got were storm battered, deserted beaches - a result of Hurricane Kitsana that recently hit. Still, I made the best of a bad situation and went for my first run in a long time. Afterward I undone the good ...

... I still feel ill (and Mei is suffering with a bad head) so had an easy day. Mei has extreme sunburn complete with blisters and I am burnt too, so spent all afternoon reading. Later we went for a walk on the beach, had pizza and bumped into Rich and James so stopped with them for a few beers and watched ...

After a few days in the bustling capital city we decide to see a bit of the coast and head down to Sihanoukville, Cambodia's main beach holliday area. Catching a bus early out of Phnom Penh we get in around 13.00, the bus journey (for once!) being uneventful. Of course we feel like rockstars when we get off the bus and are confronted by bloody tuk-tuk and taxi drivers who offer a ride to Serendipity Beach (real Cambodian name that)for 8USD. Laughing ...

... beach and had cocktails at their pool bar. <br> <br>We watched storms roll across the bay, listened to the screams of people on the banana boats, watched a pair of blue and red spotted geckos in our room, watched a massive thunderstorm at 5am, counted the mosquito bites we must have got whilst watching the storm (11 each), I clung onto Paul when lightening struck right above us and took the power ...

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... which so far seems very relaxed. We're staying at a really nice bungalow on Serendipity beach, complete with hammock and front porch and aircon (all the fan rooms are always taken, pfft.) Hopefully we're going to meet up with Chris and Jessica, the Canadians we keep running into, and we'll try and convince them to check out Bamboo Island with us, which is a nearby, apparently gorgeous island with less people and more beach.<br><br><br>

... I would really like to see some animals, so we are going to do the park trip. It will be $20 each and it includes breakfast and a BBQ lunch. We walked down to SerendipityBeach and selected Dolphin bar/restaurant for lunch. We ordered BBQ prawns and lok lak beef (beef and black pepper sauce) with rice. Bill had anchor draft and I had soda water. The beef dish was OK, but a bit chewy and the prawns were terrible - bland and mushy. Another mediocre meal. Boo! We went back ...

... swim. The beach we were staying on was called Serendipity Beach, it was lined with bars and full of locals selling everything from bracelets and scarves to freshly caught prawns and fruit. That night we had a great meal, being right on the coast the sea food was great and we had a seafood bbq which consisted of squid, barracuda, prawns etc....Being extremely pleased with our new location and having just had a lovely dinner we decided to 'get on it'. So ...

... away I would really ever go is maybe to a different bar...along the beach! When I arrived I met Shayla, another cool 23 year old from Toronto who is also going back to school in September like me...sort of like having someone from home around! We arrived in a similarly antsy mindset (for "same same but different" reasons) so we teamed up for a fun night out in Sihanoukville, meeting lots of people along the way. :) The next day we rented bicycles and headed for Otres ...