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July 14, 2004
26-30 June - Chilling out in Sihanoukville
26th – Like most days here, chilling out, riding around, buying lychees, reading books.
27th – False start on diving, yet the people who were going to dive were cool, so planned to meet for dinner. Did so, and then went to Mick and Craig’s for drinks afterwards and some pool. Did sweet FA during the day, went to the market, hung around. Late at night, while chatting with Olivier (Bungalow Village owner), the monsoon hit us, taking only a few seconds to go from a light breeze to heavy wind and rain, quite brilliant!
28th – big chill out day… sorted a lot of emails, and posted a few log entries. Went to have dinner (pizza and beer) and Unkle Bobs, then on the way out, chatted with Sim (Canadian) and Mary (Ire), had a few more drinks, etc…. pulled out my now infamous line… in response to ‘you can see what I am like on the outside’ --> ‘so when can we see what’s on the inside…’ I hadn’t gotten halfway through the sentence when I realised what I was saying! Anyway, I was planning on leaving for PP the following day, so I left them at about 2am. As I got to the bike, there were some girls hanging around the bikes, and one of them wanted a lift home. I was going to give her a lift, but the bike wouldn’t start. First they thought it was petrol, but after getting a lift to the nearest petrol place and back, we found it wasn’t empty – still wouldn’t start. We then went and got a friend (Dan) of the girl (Caan) from his guesthouse to come and help us fix it. After various attempts at getting it to work (battery had died, so we tried roll starting it), we found that the spark plug cap was missing… So we tried to attach it as best we could, to get it back to his guesthouse. After various attempts, we almost got it there. We then stayed while he went and got another one from a different bike. Finally, bike sorted, I went home.
29th – Got some breakfast and then headed to the local waterfall with my local tour guide Caan.
Caan
Click here for a videoclip of the waterfall.
Here’s a couple of cuties who did end up getting me to buy some chips from them.
Waterfall was great, but I got sunburnt on my face, arms and some on my shoulders. Went home, then went to dinner at a Khmer bbq place. Had decent bbq beef, then incredible bbq pork (yum!) We then went to the beach for drinks with Caan’s friend. I also met another of her friends, Buanyuen, who was a drop-dead cutie. I remember thinking she’s the kind of thing (visually) that I could fall for. I don’t think her English was all that great, and I was probably drooling too much to talk. Anyway, went to go home, and found that the tyre was flat. Not good luck with the bike. Got the bike back to Caan’s place and slept.
30th – spent the day lounging around in sunburn, not interested in doing anything. Went to dinner with Caan then spent some time at her place with her friends. Went to the beach with Caan and Tin (mute friend), then eventually came home to sleep.
Posted by Dan at July 14, 2004 02:44 AM