Life for the last too many days, never thought it were possible to complain about down time in bamboo chairs, but being trapped to the confines of your hostel and the only girl amongst 4 other travellers I’m itching for some exploring and sunshine.I’ve finished 1 and a half books, and begun Shantaram and indulged in many a glass of (cold?) red wine.

A cutie pie girl hanging out at my hostel yesterday whom I played with on the bamboo swings.

The beginning stages of my bed bugs break out (and this does no amount of justice)…today is a bad day. I’m currently covered almost head to toe in stingoes and using every ounce of will power not to itch the clusters of hundreds of bites covering very close to my entire body. I’m totally willing to take all the “I told you staying in hostels in South East Asia was a bad idea” comments. Sihanoukville is just bring out a mountain of bad luck now isn’t it…

Today it rained heavily for the first half of the day so besides the early morning antics which later I was thankful for at least 45 minutes of frolicking outdoors, I was coped up indoors whilst winds howled outside at about 40km/hr and we watched the trees scarily sway in the wind. The rain has finally died down, and the winds about half as strong. It’s hard to know what’s happening each website says something totally different. Unfortunately my bed and safety box was place right under the one window that was effected the most by incoming rain, water had started to seep into where all my things were stored (luckily I caught it earlier enough so just mainly clothes on too were effected) and I had to move beds and boxes. Somehow safely our 4 English friends got back to dry land (hardly dry however) on a boat from Koh Rong island so we all met up for an early dinner before they left for Vietnam (lucky things!). **NB; the reason I’m still in this town whist the weather is so horrendous is because my visa for Vietnam doesn’t start till this time next week, and it’s raining everywhere else along the coast.

We went to an an NGO run restaurant called Sandan which gets street kids and trains them up to work as waitresses, waiters and cooks. Though “pricey” for Cambodian restaurants, fortunately we got there during happy hour so for 2 cocktails, a starter (essential a meal of a salad anyway!), a half size main and a disgusting shot if honey flavours red rice wine I paid $7.50. It was really awesome to see my friends again and also such an awesome concept with absolutely delicious food and fantastic service.

There is no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepia-toned loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it’s so hard?
It’s not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I’ll tell you one thing, it’s always better when we’re together

Mmm, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, we’ll look at the stars when we’re together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together

Jack Johnson– Better together

First bowl of muesli for the season, fresh mango, banana, dragon fruit and a papaya included. Eating out for 3 dollars, I like it!

I went for my first run in 6 weeks this morning coupled with a morning swim I was in heaven. It was warm, the sun was popping out. When I got back from my shower and off to have breakfast, here was my view… And it’s just growing closer and closer and darker a dark. It was nice knowing you all…

I love when you travel the abundance of people you meet who are literally on the exact same wave length as me. It’s very refreshing, this is my thoughts exactly. You don’t HAVE to do anything!

So all three places I had planned to go between finishing volunteering and starting Vietnam have a forecast for the next 4 days beginning tonight of torrential and continual downpours of rain and storms and I’m really not sure what to do or where to go, or if I can even actually get anywhere (they’re expecting 1 meter of rain…!)

Just got super cheap flights from Hanoi to Phuket after spending the entire night researching and Jay just used his grill’d 2012 christmas present. Come the 28th of October Jay and I will be in the same continent, country and town for a week island hoping and lapping the sunshine together and I don’t think I could be more excited.