day 291, Sihanoukville

Found out that buses go to Snookville at 11 and three, attempted to make the eleven bus though during breakfast, which was served at Cambodian pace, realised it would be a no-goer so relaxed and got a cake, plus one for Bronwen as it were her birthday. Returned Michael’s scooter and spent the day chilling out at the hotel, playing a bit of pool, a bit of minigolf, watching Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, andy serkis playing ian drury and it was excellent, plus talking to people hanging around. Our bus picked us up, it was air con’d which was nice as it was scorching out, had a chat with a kiwi lad and a German girl, put my ipod in and gazed out the window. We arrived in Snookville 2 and bit hours later, it’s a bit reminiscent of the thai party islands though smaller. We found a guesthouse that Sophy from Kampot recommended. We went out for some street food which was really good, back to the hotel to chill out, watch Armoured, a film with Laurence Fishbourne, Matt Dillon, Gene Reno and it was dreadful. We went down to one of the bars, Monkey Republic, ran into a dutch bloke we met in Saigon called Rich, not surprising really as he’s a bit of a party monster, he spent a week in Vang Vieng solid tubing and been here for a while, though he’s had five solid nights on the lash and was a walking zombie so he popped a valium and went to bed at 9. We played a bit of pool with money involved, a whole 100 riel (two and a half cents!), met some Swedish people and played the Swedish version of ring of fire. Got very drunk and moved on down to the beach, had a boogie and chatted some more and stumbled home.