Penny and Fred

A nice stroll around Phnom Penh

Hey guys,

Not sure if there is anyone out still reading our blogs since we have been slackers, but today we went on a long walk to P’saa Orussey.  It was a hot day but we got up reasonable early for a Saturday (9 o’clock), not because it was hot cause both our bedroom fan and aircon were blaring through the night.  We saw it was very cold back at home at the moment (not that we care), no I actually am missing the cold Melbourne weather.  Maybe thats because alot of my last 5 years I have been away working and have missed these time.  Hot, cold, 15 seasons in one day I still miss Melbourne, we will return one day lol.

So after getting up and relaxing for a bit (Pen writing emails and me watching TV) we had left over spagetti on toast for breakie (still don’t know how to spell it).  Mmmm it was the second time I made spagbol since we left oz.  Garrett would agree there’s nothing like a good spagbol, if there was a spagbol contest, I would make the finals I reckon.  We were ready by 12 o’clock and got lathered up with sunscreen and headed off.  On our walk to the market we found a nice shop along the way, a deli/wine shop type deal, which had some nice things from back at home like crackers, pickled mini onions which Pen looooves, Australia Gold brie and Camembert… will go back one day as it is just around the corner.  Although the sun was hot, we enjoyed the walk and getting amongest our fellow PP’ians.

We found the Market without too must trouble, we have been to the Russian (P’saa Tool Tom Pong) and Central (P’saa Tomei) Markets a few times now and this was another one to add to the list.  It’s a 3 storey very big market which had dry food, fruit, veggies, meat (saw some nice glazed pigs and piglettes, Penny insists that we only need a visitor to make an excuse to come back and buy a whole beast - any takers?), chickens (alive and dead) etc etc, the other other 2 storeys had heaps of cloths, shoes, bags, jewellery and heaps of other stuff.  I don’t think it’s a common market for barrangs (foreigner) to visits, as we could have played a lengthy game of “spot the barrang”.  It was great just exploring, but we did have an alteria motive as we are invited to our first “Khmer” house warming party tomorrow, one of Penny’s staff members so we were looking for a gift.

We stopped for an ice tea at a local cafe across the road from the market, but it was quite bland so we ordered a sprite and mixed it in.  How’s that for engineering, heh, heh.  After a short break we went back to the market for another look then walked down Monivong Blvd to look for a supermarket Sam told us about during our trip to Koh Kong, not before a couple of pitstops (1) to a starbucks type coffee shop, I had the best fresh watermelon slurrpie there….. THE BEST, and Penny had a nice ice coffee with whipped cream, the fake stuff on top and (2) To one of PP’s major bus stops to get tickets for our Kep 3 night getaway (starting next Thursday whooo hooo, yes Pool, relaxing, us time can’t wait).

We found both supermarket and the Lucky’s drink shop which I had been told has the cheapest drinks in town.  We bought a litre of Beam for US$10.80 and did a nice shop for other supplies.  Pretty knackered by this stage we got a tuk tuk home for a well deserve cold shower and chill time.  Tonight for dinner I went down to the local pork n duck lady for 300 grams of each, one of our favourite dinners, just add rice and some cucumber and tomato (see no “e” Estelle and Garrett) Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Now waiting on some skype chat with two of our favourite Melbournites!!!

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