We're in Cambodia

We've arrived in Cambodia after an exhausting flight. Since we were travelling forward in time during the night, the night was really very short and since the plane from Amsterdam to Bangkok was full, sleeping was hard. Quite a contrast with the plane from Sao Paulo to Amsterdam a day and a half earlier. There we could take three seats per person so sleeping was a lot more comfortable. I guess sometimes your lucky and sometimes you aren't.
It  was also great to see a few people during our stopover (quite a few more then we expected, a nice surprise), and I am also happy and proud my grandparents made the train trip back and forth to schiphol (at about 85 years old) , although my grandma did not escape from the escalator unscathed. I don't think (hope) it will be anything longlasting though.
And Auke with his plans! Great! A lot of happiness to you and Joli!

But  after this exhausting flight which went very smooth, we arrived in Phnom Penh. We did not know what to expect. Chaos, dirt, beautiful temples, great food? Many "Happy endings"?
Well it turns out to be a little of all of that. But the sentiment that is most prominent is one of utter happiness after the absolutely delicious meal we had! Man, that was good! But we must say, the Thai restaurant in Wageningen also really does a very good job.

Phnom Penh is certainly a traffic chaos with the tuk-tuks (we finally rode them!) and cars and pedestrians. But it is a rather pleasant  chaos. The atmosphere is very friendly with enormous amounts of restaurants from really modern European style clubs on rooftops to small Street side food stalls full with people. Many of the buildings are old and not too well maintained but there are still a lot of old style colonial buildings lining the road that give it a nice atmosphere. All in all a city worth spending some time in, which  we aren't going to do, since we already booked our bus ticket for tomorrow morning to sihanoukville.
But all in all we are really rather happy, especially since we can go to sleep now.