I’m casting off. Tonight’s my last in Cambodia, tomorrow I cross into Vietnam and head to HoChiMinh City. Back into the urban steam and noise of concrete, commerce and scooters, sure to wake up the senses. I’m a crap planner, I just turn up, deliberately really. A bit of a…

“Choul Moy” (cheers) Welcome to Cambeerdia. The big billboards in Cambodia, in fact the only billboards – apart from those promoting the government, are for beer. The tired dusty tarpaulins adorning shanty’s and shacks are invariably old advertising hangs for beer. …

Kim has managed a brief holiday here on the Kep coast, from her busy life in Phnom Penh. Her mum Sonn, looks after her two daughters Pik(in the yellow) and Liza. Mother, daughter and two granddaughters. “I try to be with pure heart” she told me. “My husband has another…

In the weekends the hammock-ariums in Kep jam pack with visitors that drive down from PP(Phnom Penh) for a day or weekend on the coast, prob a bit like London hitting Brighton or Bournemouth. Today being wednesday, it’s all clean up and prep for this weekend’s influx. I scootered down…

“$8 a kilo, my mum cook it for you”. Thona and his sister are front of house on their stand at the Kep fish market. Squid, shrimp, crab, stingray and other species I can’t make out. …

‘You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run’ … last night I walked away, this morn I ran. They’re called speedboat ferries here, and when the skipper opened up the throttles, I thought, yep, time to go.

Short blog tonight, full day spent scootering round the island with a couple of chums I’ve met staying on Koh Rong island. Tired out ! Fishing villages on a sunday are sleepy, nets stacked on the shore, no boats coming and going. …

He was listing side to side in sync with the boats in the bay. His words were too. Mark flopped down in the chair next to us on the beach. The 50 cent beers were having their way with him. When the beachbar closed, barman Pich brought us free skewers…

I realise I’ve been a bit skint on providing establishing info. Cambodia has 17 mill people and the average age is just under 15. It’s a young one. Main reason for that is PolPot halving the then population of 7 million. Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, the main tourist city…