Bonjur people, you must have all opened your advent calenders this morning and getting excited as Christmas is in the air . The only thing in the air around us at the moment are the smelly josh sticks, that are suppose to prevent you getting bitten by the mossies, however it doesn't work, so we just smell of josh sticks instead. We are sat outside our hostel drinking some beer and people watching, or are the watching us, you never know as they are so curious by us.

We left Singapore quite drunk as we had been up the 2nd tallest tower viewing the city and drinkingwith our friend Ben, typically Amy and I were doing our best tourist/traveller impressions, and they were very good compared to everyone else around us wearing suits and smart clothes, I think they thought we were in fancy dress.

We then had yet another day or so of hectic travels, Arriving at 1am in Kuala Lumpur airport and spending thenight their, but this time our 'best airports to sleep in' website didn't quite tell us the honest truth, so a stone floor was the bed of choice this time. This wasn't to bad as in china all the beds are harder than the hardest rock, so our bodies have become a custom to it, and we have both grown two inches. Anyway back to it, we woke up early to loads of people checking infor their flights, looking at us like we were there queue entertainment provided by AirAsia, they were rather disapointed when we went off, but at leastwe got a standing ovation.

We had an afternoon flight to Cambodia's capital Phnom Pehn, but first we had to make it to Kuala Lumpur in the pouring rain to the hotel we are staying at for Christmas with the Pullin's. We had built up a massive 10kg's of excess luggage that we had built up, consistingof our winter clothes and souviners as well as just general stuff. When we dropped it off we then had to make it all the way back to airport for our flight. Now I know what your thinking, wemust have smelt ver y bad, and I'm not going to lie to you we did, infact it evenput us off sitting next to ourselves, but we just couldn't. However we knew there were showers at the airport, so we freshened up and got on our plane to Cambodia.

We arrived in good spirits if a little apprehensive, we hadn't had visa but they soon had enough people onhand to sort that out, with our passports being passed down a line of about 15 army type people, getting papers put in, stamped, restamped until we paid some money for the privellage. Which as it turned out was american dollars, and was a reasonable price. They use dollars everywhere here, mainly because if you bought say a 3 course meal for 15 pounds here, it would cost you something exagerated like 2000,000,000.00 in their native cash.

After we collected ourbags and went through the usual health check infra red thing and the usual finger up your bum we got a tut tut to our hostel. Now New Zealan has more sheep than people, Australia probably has more Kangaroos than people, China just have too many people, Cambodia on the other hand must have more mopeds than people, they are everywhere and its so crazy.

The Cambodians seem like a very friendly bunch and without tempting fate as we are only coming to the end of our first full day, the seem very honest and integeral. Now I have said that we will lose our camera and phone again. But so far so good, some amazing food yesterday in the shape of a green curry 9it had peas in though, and for those of you that know about my freak discomfort at small veggie type things, this didn't go down too well) but it was extermley tasty, s o tasty i want togo back for more, butIthink amy is favouring what looks like dog/rat on a stick.

Today was a great day althoug h very sombre, we got ona tut tut to see everything, or least most of what the c apital had to offer (5 pounds for the day). I say the day was sombre as we went to the killing fields about 15km outside o f the city, it was a very sad sight to see and touched us due to the events that only happend 30 years ago, the government wanting to introduce a crazy regime, killing innocent people in the process. However the country has recovered and the people seem very content. We also saw the palace and markets.

Tomorrow we have been invited by a local ex-pat charity to a village 50kms from the city and just play with the kids. It is a very poor village with no water and sanitation etc, we are going along to lend a hand, give out fresh fruit and clean clothes. We know it will pull the heart strings but apparantly the villagers love tosee a new face, so its an experience we are looking forward to. Anyway we I must attend my beer, it looks lonely, oh and opps so does amy so I best drink the beer.

Off to the north of the country incouple of days, followed by the south, before we head west before xmas.

Until next time people.

Stay Safe

xxx

Oh and we didn't have any fingers in any bums.