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Trips:

Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia
Chris and Charly Down Under
Chris and Charly's African Adventure
Chris and Charly's Pacific Island Pit-Stop
Chris and Charly's mini trip to The States
Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

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Work...

Kampot, Cambodia


It's a Sunday, so roast dinner for me!

Dick and Chris eating Chris' home-cooked steaks

Working again today, and again not much to say about it as most of you back home are also working, so don’t really want to read about it.

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 4, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Same, same... But different

Kampot, Cambodia


A bright blue gecko

Another pretty gecko
Not a lot to report about today finally dragged myself out of bed at about 1:30pm after a rubbish sleep due to Chris’ snoring and fidgeting all night. The bar got pretty busy for a while in the evening, full of fussy and impatient customers which reminded me of working back in the U.K. with a forced smile plastered on my face. But closed up early at 11:30pm as everyone left early.

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 3, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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All keeping our fingers crossed for Darran xxx

Kampot, Cambodia


A kid escaping the playground
The bar was ridiculously quiet all day and night. So didn’t really have to do much, just serve a couple of people. So, we locked up at 10pm, a nice change from the usual 1:30am. Chris and Dick went out to another local bar with local music and didn’t resurface again until gone 3am and I sat outside for 4 hours being eaten alive by mosquitoes trying to keep updated on my poorly sick brother… So hope he pulls through and is better soon… We’re all thinking of you and praying for the best xxxx

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 2, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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It's a hard life... :)

Kampot, Cambodia


Becks, Ana and Rhie
Woke up pretty tired from running about working, so was fast asleep until 11am when Chris started banging on the door, he had already left and eaten breakfast before I even surfaced! Hard life I know! Just chilled the afternoon away trying to fix the laptop- no idea what’s wrong with it, but very irritating! Then, started work at 4pm- very quiet to begin with, but a little crazy from 7:30pm when the customers started to flock in. I forget just how tiring running about a restaurant is, especially in this climate, the humidity just kills you!

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 1, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Poker Night

Kampot, Cambodia


Poker night
Went for a stroll around Kampot today. Not a great deal to see, but nice to see some sunshine again! Very hot! Then came back, showered, changed and got ready for our 2nd night’s work. Compared to yesterday it was really busy from 6-10pm, didn’t stop at all!

Poker night
Chris however, is getting quite used to his chair behind the bar and is reaching distance to pretty much anything… hmmm… think I picked the wrong option working out front?!?!.. Then, to top it off, it was ‘Poker Night’ so from 8pm- midnight he played poker and drank beer with a group of other customers, so that was his ‘work’ for the night… Yep, definitely picked the wrong role…

permalink written by  chrischarly on August 31, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Joining the working masses in Cambodia...

Kampot, Cambodia


Dick, someone? and Ezzer
Well after a night of drinking, we woke up and remembered what we agreed to last night, so thought we better talk it through a little more with alcohol in the system… So we headed next door and met a sober Dick and Ezzer and spoke about what would be required of us if we did decide to work, and we found out that basically we wouldn’t have to do much, so we thought we would give it a go. We could only work for 13 nights as we still want to do a little more exploring, and in return for working, we wouldn’t get paid, but we would get free accommodation, free alcohol, as much as we like (Chris loved this part), free food, as much and whatever we want, free laundry (yay- a break from hand-washing!) and even free cigarettes!

Ezzer and Chris in the 'Royal Chair'
So we thought, why not. It’s raining pretty much every day anyway so we are limited to what we can do, so why not have a free 2 weeks! So had a free breakfast and then got ready to start work after some chatting… 4-12pm are our working hours, and tonight it was pretty quiet, complete opposite of last night, so our 1st shift consisted of not a lot of work, a lot of sitting and chatting. Chris being ‘King of the Bar’ in his royal chair behind the bar keeping an eye on the ‘till’ and over-seeing everything (aka nothing) and I just had to take a few orders and take out some food- something I can do with my eyes closed… So a good night, Chris managed to consume about 8 pints and I had a couple of glasses of wine… Think we’ve got it made here! But better not speak too soon, will keep you updated!

permalink written by  chrischarly on August 30, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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A job...??? WTF...!!!

Kampot, Cambodia


In Asia, always lots of motorbikes
Today we left Kep, our clothes were pretty much dry and we decided it was time to move on and stop eating the most delicious seafood and go back on a budget and the best way to do that would be to leave. So we caught the 1st bus to Kampot. It wasn’t far, just an hour bus journey. Finding accommodation was easy as well, and cheap. There is a whole street with $5 rooms and they were all ok, so we picked the best of a bunch and checked in to Pepper Guesthouse. I was feeling a bit rough today so didn’t feel like doing much, but Chris successfully managed to persuade me to go next door to Blissful Guesthouse for happy hour. From then on, we stayed for 8 hours, ate some Comfort food with REAL Cheddar cheese and our bill grew a bit too much. Chris got chatting to the owners and they discovered our previous experience working in bars etc. and instantly offered us both jobs, and then wouldn’t take ‘No’ for an answer. So even though we went away adamant we wouldn’t work anywhere (except in the Philippines) as we went away to escape work, and for me, especially work in bars or restaurants, here we were agreeing. We are weak people…

permalink written by  chrischarly on August 29, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Yucky day...

Kep, Cambodia


Enjoying the sea breeze
We woke up and it was still pouring with rain, it didn't stop at all during the night, so everywhere was so muddy and disgusting and our clothes were soaked, so we put on wet clothes and spent the day pretty much waiting for the rain to stop… yucky day…

permalink written by  chrischarly on August 28, 2011 from Kep, Cambodia
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Hanging out

Kep, Cambodia


A very big crab

The gecko before Becks grabs it


A tree growing sideways?!

Becks holding a BIG gecko with BIG teeth!?!?

Had a nice chill day today hanging out with some other travellers.
Went down into town about 1 1/2 km away, nice walk. But on the way back it was pouring down with rain and as there were 5 of us decided to call a tuk tuk. The price should be 1$ but he quoted $2 so we refused to pay it and walked back in the pouring rain, all of us soaked through, literally. So now we have no dry clothes as we just did all our washing, and they are just as wet as when we first did them. All this for refusing to pay $2 between 5 of us. Such cheap-skates we are, but it was the principal of the matter, you know?



permalink written by  chrischarly on August 27, 2011 from Kep, Cambodia
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Exploring Kep

Kep, Cambodia

We decided to explore around Kep today, firstly going to the crab market and then a walk around the coast.


Lady getting out the crabs

Bringing the crabs in

Lady cooking our prawns

Making our sugar-cane juice

Then we decided to go a bit further afield and as there were 4 of us, it was cheaper to hire a tuk tuk for the day instead of hiring 2 bikes. So after some hard negotiating we were on our way. First stop was to some caves about 30km away from Kep and it was a great disappointment.


The caves

Limsestone cliffs


Entrance to cave

Walking up to caves

As it is rainy season, The Caves are completely flooded, but of course no one was willing to tell this when planning our adventure, especially not the tuk tuk driver, or when paying The Entrance fees when we arrived.


Just inside the entrance of flooded cave

Cannot go inside cause of flooding

So we could only go just inside The Entrance and even though we said countless times that we didn’t want a guide, 7 children joined us adamant that they would offer their guide services to us.


Inside the cave

Inside cave

Inside the cave

As far in as we could go

But I’m sure they are great to look around during the dry season, but during wet season it is a waste of money for both transport and entrance fees. But then again we have seen many caves, so I’m sure we didn’t miss much. After this, we went to a pepper Plantation was which in fact really interesting.


Green peppercorns

Peppercorn vines

Kampot pepper is really famous and quite possibly the best pepper you can buy and we even got to try some.


Lychees

Huge papayas

Me though, hating anything spicy or very peppery embarrassingly had to spit it out. Then in the evening, back to Kimley’s restaurant for the tasty crab dish again!

permalink written by  chrischarly on August 26, 2011 from Kep, Cambodia
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