day 288, kampot

Yesterday evening we waited for the electricity to cut out before heading back out into the ocean for a swim with the algae. It was very, very cool. In the morning we packed up and checked out, had a pancake for breakfast and sorted our boat back to the island. It wasn’t for another hour so hung around and read some more of 1984, which I’m really enjoying, and jumped on our boat. We were met back at Kep by our tuk tuk driver who drove us back to Kep city and arranged the bus to Kampot, 30kms down the road. That wasn’t for a couple of hours, so more reading and on the bus. Once at Kampot we had a look around and found a guesthouse, we’re in the dorm which is really well laid out, open plan and takes the whole of the top floor. We went across the road to the curry shack which was a little disappointing before borrowing some bikes for the guesthouse and going for a cycle around the town. It’s pretty quiet and laid back here, next to a river which is nice, we stopped for a brownie and ice cream which was really, really good, and back to the guesthouse to play a bit of pool. For dinner we went to a place which has won awards for it’s ribs, and they were fantastic. They have a rib challenge which stupidly I said I could do, so Michael has bet me that I can’t, so we’re going back tomorrow. Back at the guesthouse  got some beers and met some people around the pool table, some americans who have worked in Antarctica for six months who were really interesting, a Canadian girl and a Aussie girl. We had a few beers and played some minigolf, then more beers and played pool till the early hours of the morning listening to music.