Free Day in Sihanouk Ville

I found out today that the place we are in is spelt Sihanouk Ville (not Sihanoukville)]


Free day today. Which meant having to organise stuff ourselves for once. Mr Tongue and I ran along the beach at 7am and did a couple of circuits. We then wanted to hire a kayak and though they were at the end of the beach where we could see wooden docks. It was only 200m away, but these wooden docks were actually a small village and the contrast in wealth and conditions was extraordinary. It was like a different country but the same stretch of beach.


We spent the morning on the beach playing with tennis balls and volleyballs. A couple of the kids went to the spa for what they described as an "amazing"massage. It was buy one get one free as well! Bargain! We had our first bit of rain today. Fell quite heavily but then was hot hot hot after. Typical. We wanted rain all of last week to cool us down on the building site and then when we don't want it to, it starts to rain. We appear to be in the middle of a storm now as I type. Very scary. Feels like a hurricane!


For lunch half of the group staying at the resort whilst the other half ventured into town. The group that stayed pretty much lazed around not doing much. Very tiring stuff. The adventurous group found a public beach and settled there. Reports tell me that it was not great and was full of tourists, backpackers and people trying to sell something..


The rest of the day was spend lazing around the pool. We grabbed a ride into town for dinner at a place called Holy Cow which was nice.


Tomorrow, island hopping and boat rides. Should be fun.


PS. Breakfast is awesome!