Yesterday we booked our bus tickets down to Phnom Penh, leaving the Dead Fish at 7:30am, for a 4-5 hour trip down to the capital of Cambodia. Having booked our tickets (and setting my alarm) I headed downstairs for a drink. For some reason I was craving a Gin & Tonic, which is frankly bizarre as I don't like Gin or Tonic, and certainly not mixed together! Anyway a few G & T's later Alan turned up and we headed into town for something to eat, and really getting into the Cambodian culture, we had Mexican.... washed down with a few beers at Viva, and then headed over to Papier de Tigres for a few more beers ($0.50 per beer), and finally heading over to Angkor What? and bumping into our German friends and meeting some Irish nurses. At this point sticking to beer would probably have been advisable, however we decided to switch to buckets, so I was back on the G & T's, and then eventually back onto the beers. Now we reckon we headed back to the Dead Fish at about 4am. Still having my wits about me somewhat, I plugged my phone in and dropped asleep dead to the world.
Now the next thing I'm aware of is slowly waking up with the sun shining through the window, and the dawning realisation I had no idea where I was, we don't have a window in our room! After a minute or so I came to the conclusion that I was in our hotel, just not our room and wearing nothing but my boxer shorts! I quickly remade the bed (don't want to pay for another room) and headed out into the corridor to our room. Luckily Alan woke up when I knocked and let me in at which point I discovered it was 11am and we'd missed our Bus ($22 wasted!) so I promptly went to bed (my own this time) and feel back asleep.
Finally waking up I came to the conclusion that I'd gone for a piss, taken a wrong turn afterwards and locked myself out of the room! Alan quickly dispelled that by informing me that when the alarm went off for us to go to the bus I was gone and the bedroom door was wide open!
God only know what kind of drunken logic was going on when I decided to leave our room and go sleep in the one across from it, perhaps Alan was snoring! So anyway, the moral of this story is don't drink a shed load of gin the night before you're supposed to catch an early bus! So we've got another bus booked for tomorrow morning, and I'm now going to head over to Angkor What? for a drink, although not as many as last night!
It also occured to me last night, that plenty of people would have walked past the room to see a semi-naked Chris sprawled out drunkenly on top of the bed in an empty room, what a lovely sight for them!
Hopefully my next blog post will be from Phnom Pehn.....
