Note to self; buy warmer clothes

Note to self: remember to go to the market tomorrow to find a long-sleeved top of some kind, and perhaps a scarf as well. It´s well needed when driving the motorbike in the mornings and evenings, as this season has brought some cool temperatures. Only +19 degrees Celsius this morning.... brrrrr......

Note to self; avoid motorbike driving in bad traffic

Note to self; don´t insist on driving your own motorbike when you´re going out on late afternoon or evenings on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays. That´s when the Phnom Penh traffic situation is at its worst, so really - you don´t need to expose yourself to that. So far everything has been working out fine, but as the traffic situation gets worse by the week, it´s really unnecessary to expose yourself to that risk. Instead of taking your motorbike; catch a tuktuk or call a cab. You stubborn woman. Photo: Michael Regan

Home, sweet home, part 2

As some of you know, I moved to a new flat in June last year. And I just realised that I haven´t posted any photos of it as I promised you that I would. But better late than never, so...
This is the building where I live. I´m on the top floor, in the penthouse. Which is great, despite the fact that it comes with a lot of climbing as there´s no elevator. For those of you who know Phnom Penh, the street is starting at Sothearos Boulevard and runs westwards, parallell to and one block south of Sihanouk Boulevard.

One of the good things of being on the 5:th floor is of course that it comes with a great view;
The view from the terrace to the northwest, where you see Independence Monument and Wat Langka

This is street 294, seen from the terrace, going west to the neighbourhood Baeng Keng Kong 1...

...and east, towards the river.

When entering the flat (from the left in this picture), there´s a large open space with a combined kitchen- and livingroom area.
From the kitchen you reach the rear balcony, which has a beautiful view towards the north, in the direction of Hun Sen Park and the Royal Palace
And voilá; on the balcony there´s also a washing machine!A modernity that one can´t take for granted here in Cambodia, so I´m very happy for it. In my previous apartment, the clothes had to be washed by hand or taken to a laundry. For some reasons, most washing machines here are installed outside of the building. Don´t ask me why. Another strange thing is that it´s not possible to programme different temperatures on this model. And as it´s connected to a water tap with lukewarm water only; lukewarm washing it is... But it´s still a luxury!

The guest room, waiting for guests to accomodate :-)

From the livingroom, you open the door out to the lovely, spacious terrace...



In the apartment, there´s also a master bedroom, a master bathroom and a guest bathroom as well. But no pictures of those. Some things I need to keep to myself... ;-)

Going once, going twice...

Anyone..?! Oh, come on now, guys! This has to be the offer of the year, and the year has hardly even started yet! Going once, going twice...

Do you see what I see...?

This pic was taken at a nice little restaurant bar in Kep where we had lunch on New Years Day. At the time, I was quite sure that one of the other guests happened to be - a turkey... Do you see it as well? Or it it just me, maybe I had too much to drink the evening before? I mean, a turkey.. at a bar... Well, on the other hand, this is Cambodia...