Bugging about

Cambodia is a really, really nice place!
I thought I might point out a few things that we're enjoying about the place and some other general thoughts. For a start the people seem alot friendlier here than their Vietnamese counterparts, as always the kids are very friendly, always waving at you and shouting Hello and not trying to sell you anything which is very refreshing. You still get motorbike drivers wanting to drive you somewhere, but the level of hassle here is alot less. Walking down a street in Vietnam, every shop owner pretty much would ask you to come and look at their stuff and if you did, would then shadow you all the way round the shop in the hope you might buy something. Here however you can walk down the whole street and the only thing that has happened so far is people smiling at you and kids waving! Sam reckons its cleaner here, I'm not so sure myself, but some people take their shoes off to go inside, so maybe a weeny bit.
The little street restaurants are the same here as Nam, they basically consist of red or blue plastic children sized chairs on the pavement round small plastic tables, a bit like a kids tea party, only kids parties don't tend to feature barbequed bugs and dried squid! Actually didnt see any bugs being eaten in Nam, but seen some massive ones here :( Theres always a woman whos doing the cooking and they tend to boil things in a big saucepan and double up the saucepan as a box for carrying their 'kitchin' implements.
Weirdly it's a bit more expensive in some ways here that Nam. I thought it would be dirt cheap here, but food and beers are definately more expensive. The Angkor beer that i'm drinking at the moment is $1.75, thats about a pound in the queens money! I realise its a big 660ml bottle, but this would cost me 30-50p in Nam. Outrageous!
The food is fairly similer to Nam as well, noodles and things; the noodle soup isn't nearly as good as it is in Nam, but the pizza they do here is very nice indeed! Been having the odd western dish the longer we travel about, you can only eat noodles every day for a certain length of time.
We have been lazing about on the coast down in Sihanoukville fo the last week, enjoying the lovely beaches and working on our tans! Blog to follow and photos to follow when I can get to somewhere with no techno problems....