The Sea at last

We've made it to the sea at last! It's great to have a sea breeze to cut through the humidity. The Cambodian beach resort of Sihanoukeville is pretty basic, just beach hut type hotels and a few bars and restaurants. But the beaches are quiet and the waves are massive.

Like everywhere in Cambodia there are plenty of beggars and hawkers. The beach hawkers tend to specialise in either selling 'lobsters', selling friendship bracelets or selling massages or threading (like hair waxing but with a twisted bit of thread). Gav kept the economy going by feasting on 6 lobsters as an afternoon snack - for 1 US dollar!, and buying a friendship bracelet(?) and a string dolphin(???) I invested in getting my legs threaded and gav had a shoulder massage (I think his rucksack is too heavy for him). The masseusse was dieing to thread his back. She (and all the other 100s of hawkers) kept saying how horrid his hairy back was and called him a big hairy monkey! He wouldn't let her near it - shame.

While we were here we went to the national park and did a treck through the rainforest to a deserted beach - no hawkers or beggars - bliss!

We left Cambodia on Sunday and headed to the other side of the Bay of Thailand. It was a marathon journey. Our coach got into bangkok at midnight on Sunday so we found a bar to watch the world cup final in. At 4am they kicked us out so we went to MacDonalds for an hour then got a cab to the station at 5am only to find that all the trains to where we wanted to go were full. So we jumped in another cab and went to the bus station. We got on a bus at 7am and arrived at 5pm. We made the last ferry of the day to Kho Samui by the skin of our teeth and finally went to bed at 9.30 and slept like babies. 36 hour journey. Easy!