Visits and visitors

Janne has booked his tickets for coming to Phnom Penh in December, and I'm of course very happy! He's arriving on the 22:nd, staying for three wonderful weeks. We'll spend Christmas here in Phnom Penh, and who knows where we'll be celebrating New Years Eve...? So many opportunities here; only an 1 hr flight to Bangkok, 5 hrs by bus to Saigon, 3 hrs flight to the Philippines...

It's been decided since long that Janne will come here in December, and I'm planning to go to Sweden for two weeks of holiday in Sweden in August. But appareantly we're not the only ones in the family planning for a journey?! Yesterday, I was surprised and of course very glad to hear that my parents have made reservations for coming to see me here in Cambodia in February, and at the same time we'll celebrate my fathers 60:th birthday together. My parents are planning to arrive on the 4:th of February, and Dad will turn 60 on the 6:th, so we'll have some celebration to do and some Angkor temples to see, before they go home to Sweden again on the 14:th of February.

Another visit that I am very much looking forward to, is that my friend Louise probably will combine an environmental cenference in Bali with a visit to Phnom Penh. She'll hopefully turn up here around the 13:th of December. Hurray!

So, as you all understand I'm very excited about the planned visits, and I'm also hoping for more friends to show up here! To give you a clue about a good time to come, I'm listing the dates I'll be off from work due to National Holidays during the rest of this year:
21/9: Constitution Day
10-12/10: Pchum Ben (don't ask me what that is)
29/10: Coronation Day of His Majesty the King of Cambodia
31/10: Birthday of His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk
9/11: Independence Day (no, not the movie)
23/11: the Water festival
10/12: International Human Rights Day (Take the chance to raise your voice and to make a change!)
But of course you're more than welcome to come at other times as well!

And yes, I'm still looking for a permanent place to stay. Hopefully that will be solved soon - keep your fingers crossed for a lovely wooden traditional cambodian house on street 398! - so that I can welcome you all to my very own place here in the wonderful city of Phnom Penh! :-)