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Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia

a travel blog by chrischarly

This passage will be our longest one and it will be during our time in SE Asia visiting Malaysia, The Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, proabaly in this order before flying to Australia towards the end of September. Unfortunately we've run out of time to go to Burma and Vietnam... maybe next time!
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Stupidly messy night...

Kampot, Cambodia


Old building
Had a nice roast Chicken lunch today, well shared one as they are huge. Had a pretty busy evening and enjoyed a few beers throughout the evening , and some very tasty Mongolian vodka, courtesy of Clement, an old Blissful barman who returned today.
Ezza was on top form as Clement was back and we all ended up pretty pissed by close-up and then headed to Madi’s bar on the River,

Old building
before making our way to Bar Red. It was pretty busy and we ended up drinking heavily including beer, G+T’s, shots of various description.

An old building
We staggered home at about 5.30am to discover we didn’t have our keys. Tried climbing over the gate unsuccessfully but the barbed wire scared us. We then staggered back to Bar Red to see if we had left our keys there. Nope. So Chris thought it would be the perfect opportunity for yet another beer. Then phoned Ezza who reluctantly got out of bed to let us in just as the sun was rising. Found our keys, Chris had left them behind Blissful bar when working. What a muppet… Top night!

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 11, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Hungover

Kampot, Cambodia


Old picture of a bridge

Old picture of a bridge
Ouch! What happened last night. Had many ice coffees, Royal D’s (vitamin isotonic drinks) and Comfort food. Oh and no beer. Had another fairly busy night, glad to get to bed…….

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 12, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Day 2 of hangover

Kampot, Cambodia


The bar

Monks
Day 2 of the hangover for old man Chris. Managed to get out for second round of the pool championships between Chris and Ezza. Chris lost 5-4 so now 1 match each, decider scheduled for Saturday. Had a fairly quiet night and a few beers then early night.

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Again... poker night

Kampot, Cambodia


Poker night
Poker night again. I spent 2 hours teaching a very hung-over Olly (another traveller) how to play before I started work as he had never played before as he was

Poker night
desperate to play.

Olly passed out
But after all my hard work playing teacher, to make him feel better and get rid of his hang-over,

Dieke dancing on the bar
he drank 5 shots and 7 beers and managed to pass out by 6:30pm, and pass out is literally an understatement as we worried a few times if he were still breathing! He managed to sleep solidly for 6 hours so missed poker unfortunately. But many other travellers showed up and the bar was packed out. Very busy night.

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 14, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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12 days of work originally, now 3 weeks...

Kampot, Cambodia


A 5yr old candle
Well, we were supposed to absolutely leave today, after delaying it day by day and finally go and see Ankor Wat,

Blissful bar
The killing Fields and S21. But we decided instead of rushing it, we would just have to come back again… one day...

Mr. Tith (waiting staff)
Dick and Ezza want us to come back and work here again,

Almost closing, J snoozing
so you never know what might happen in the future?! But either way, we have been useless tourists missing out 3 major things to see and visit. As everyone always says when trapped in Kampot and find themselves wasting away the days… ‘Next time’…

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Another quiet day

Kampot, Cambodia


Scrappy

Fat Boy (yep, that's his real name)

Very quiet and boring day. Very few customers, so the night dragged slowly by. But we did finish up early which of course is a bonus.

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 16, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Oh dear...

Kampot, Cambodia


Flaming sambuca from 1 glass to another
Well it is our unofficial last day at Blissful and as tradition goes, Ezza, Dick and co planned to get us wasted! First off we had the big pool final, previous matches had been won by Chris 5-4 then Ezza 5-4, so this was a big deal, so we headed off to Wunderbar at 11.00. We started without a beer, but after 3 games realised it was time. The match was a whitewash and Chris won 5-1; this started Ezza’s downwards role. After a few in Wunderbar, we strolled into Rusty’s for a few more and then it was apparent that we were getting slightly pissed, well Ezza was anyway. As I knew I was getting tagged teamed with Ezza on the early and Dick on the late, Chris thought it best to take Ezza out of the game.

Drinking the fumes of sambuca
On his last two beers, he gave him a shot of vodka in the bottom and he didn’t even notice. We staggered home well past when we were supposed to and Ezza disappeared to bed about 6pm. Another victory to Mr Joel. After this point it all went decidedly down-hill, many shots were poured and drunk and after several hours of this, including some dancing on the bar, and some Sambuca fires on the bar it all becomes a blur for Chris. The details are best left for the night, and only remembered over beers in the future. All in all a good night if slightly too drunked!!

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 17, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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Last day at Blissful...

Kampot, Cambodia


Blissful
Well now it is our official last day at Blissful and we spent it hungover and trying to recover. Nice to spend a day the other side of the bar, watching rugby and nothing not a lot else. Nice early night!

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 18, 2011 from Kampot, Cambodia
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And now back to Thailand...

Krong Kaoh Kong, Cambodia


Our bags hanging ot of the back, drenched
We said our fond goodbyes to everyone. The kitchen staff responded by saying, ‘Charly we love you!’ That was so lovely. Will miss their lovely cheery smiley faces. Even Ezza, J and Tith managed to surface to say goodbye at the early hour of 8am! Made us feel nice and appreciated! Then caught a local minibus for a long drive to the Thai border, which was tiring and long. Passed through border easily, no hassle coming out of Cambodia compared to coming in, which assured us that they were rip off ********. Then caught a minibus into Trat, which was easy peasy. Decided against taking a tuk tuk, they said it was 3km into town, we thought they were lying so walked. After going 3km we were exhausted and sweaty and wished we were more trusting but found a nice place to stay for 200 baht. Then chilled there in the evening, quite enjoying Trat.

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 19, 2011 from Krong Kaoh Kong, Cambodia
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And now, back to KL...

Trat, Thailand


Chris and I
After a brief stop-over it was time to move on, so, checked out at 8am and caught a tuk tuk to the bus station and the bus left promptly on time at 9am. Nice bus and very good journey, really fast driver and arrived dead on time at Bangkok airport at 2pm. The wait was way too long, but it was our easiest transport option with no messing around so we didn’t mind. Flight was also fine and left at 8:20pm to KL. Arrived in KL at 11:30pm, ran through immigration, got bags as quick as possible, then ran to get tickets for last bus to Pudaraya, which is the closest place to Sarang Vacation Homes, our favourite place in KL. So happy we made it to the bus as didn’t think we would. Then found the bus, relieved and then had to wait for about ½ an hour, maybe longer for it to actually go. They said it was direct, they lied of course. Went via the other airport. When we arrived in Pudaraya, decided again to walk instead of getting a taxi, took us about 20 minutes to get to Sarang Vacation Homes. Then had to wake up Terry to let us in. When we got upstairs realised it was 2am and we told them we would get there just gone midnight. Oops, exhausted, sleep time!

permalink written by  chrischarly on September 20, 2011 from Trat, Thailand
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