I arrived in Phnom Penh last Saturday, following a 32 hour journey from London by Car, Train, Planes, Motorcycle and Tuk-Tuk.
Over the past month or two, I sold off my cars, my tools and shipped most of my books and stuff for keeps to Ireland to be stored in my brother's attic.
I moved from my house, stayed in a hostel for three weeks before visiting my family in Ireland for about ten days, getting back to London on the 3rd to get my stuff out of storage and leave for Asia last Friday.
I had about 25kg overweight on my luggage as I brought my summer clothes, my computer, external HDD, keyboard, guitar and about 30kg in text books and one or two choice novels. Luckily I was able to sneak the excess on as hand-luggage.
Flew London-Bombay, changed planes there and got to bangkok 24 hours after I left London, on account of the time and date lines being crossed. Then on to Bangkok where I had a long-ass 7 hour layover before I caught my connecting flight to Phnom Penh.
The weather is a balmy 25-35c most days, it being the "cool" season here, with a nice breeze.
I'm living in a Khmer Guesthouse near the Olympic stadium and might stay here for a while. It's good value, friendly, secure and has a mean roof terrace.
Since monday I have been training with a company operating on the campus of the main Uni. Classes are 9-5 everyday, except today where we had an exam and an early finish.
I was out with my classmates last night, who are a real hodge-podge of Americans from various states and backgrounds, another Irish, a Chinese-Irish-Scot, an english, an aussie and a few others.
We were drinking in this nice little bar down a dark alley in a crazy part of a crazy city, had some good food and wandered up the river at 1am to buy $20 worth of MJ. $20 gets you about three ounces of the good stuff here
Had a smoke with the group on the banks of the Mekong before hitting a new bar where I got locked into this courtship and whisky drinking scene with a pretty american, who I'm hooking up with later.
Back home at 4am, passed out, up at 8am, drank water, took a diaz, went and did my exam and I got the whole weekend ahead of myself.
Life's good:D
Over the past month or two, I sold off my cars, my tools and shipped most of my books and stuff for keeps to Ireland to be stored in my brother's attic.
I moved from my house, stayed in a hostel for three weeks before visiting my family in Ireland for about ten days, getting back to London on the 3rd to get my stuff out of storage and leave for Asia last Friday.
I had about 25kg overweight on my luggage as I brought my summer clothes, my computer, external HDD, keyboard, guitar and about 30kg in text books and one or two choice novels. Luckily I was able to sneak the excess on as hand-luggage.
Flew London-Bombay, changed planes there and got to bangkok 24 hours after I left London, on account of the time and date lines being crossed. Then on to Bangkok where I had a long-ass 7 hour layover before I caught my connecting flight to Phnom Penh.
The weather is a balmy 25-35c most days, it being the "cool" season here, with a nice breeze.
I'm living in a Khmer Guesthouse near the Olympic stadium and might stay here for a while. It's good value, friendly, secure and has a mean roof terrace.
Since monday I have been training with a company operating on the campus of the main Uni. Classes are 9-5 everyday, except today where we had an exam and an early finish.
I was out with my classmates last night, who are a real hodge-podge of Americans from various states and backgrounds, another Irish, a Chinese-Irish-Scot, an english, an aussie and a few others.
We were drinking in this nice little bar down a dark alley in a crazy part of a crazy city, had some good food and wandered up the river at 1am to buy $20 worth of MJ. $20 gets you about three ounces of the good stuff here
Had a smoke with the group on the banks of the Mekong before hitting a new bar where I got locked into this courtship and whisky drinking scene with a pretty american, who I'm hooking up with later.
Back home at 4am, passed out, up at 8am, drank water, took a diaz, went and did my exam and I got the whole weekend ahead of myself.
Life's good:D