So it is the evening of my second day in Siem Reap. I settled in to new accomdation last night, and had a fairly good sleep last night. I woke up bright and early and once i was showered and what not i walked a k or so to a butterfly garden cafe over the other side of the river. As the name suggests the cafe was in a garden filled with butterflies, and would of been quite tranquil except there was construction work going on next door ( i swear the builders are following me) - but i settled down with my book and some breaky and a cup of perppermint tea, and was enjoying being bymyself for the first time in over 3 weeks ( not that Elise's company wans't grand). But this only lasted for 20 mins or so before Hywell suddenly appeared out of conincidence, so ended up finishing my breakfast with him, which allowed him to tell me just few more exciting travel stories. But then i was on my own again for a walk around siem reap - mainly looking into some galleries. By 10.30 i was ready for a nap and headed back to my accomdation. I slept until about 12.20 had some lunch, read my book and was ready to have a nap again by 20 to 2... as you can see an eventful day...but i have been so tired!!! In thge afternoon i was ready for another walk and an icecream, before coming back again to the roof top of my accom and watching a movie ( they actually have a pretty big selection).
About 3/4 though the movie, a man popped his head around the corner, asked where i was from and then invited me over to have a drink with his friends. This ended up including his twin brother, both 35 ( going on 25) from the UK, a 20 yr old NZ girl living in Perth, a 40 yr old Luthianian, a German working in a sex shop in Brisbane and a chick from Holland - They are all really nice and just having showers before we head out for a couple of drinks on the apdaptly named 'PUB STREET'. I had a really good time talking to them, and the brothers almost have me convinced to move to the West End in 6 months, as they swear their big bro who works there could get my job!
I shouldn't have a too big of a nite, as i have already arranged a tuk tuk driver to be my alarm at 5 am in the morning so i can see the sunrise over ANgor Wat and do a few more temples befpre i get back on the bus at lunch time!
I hope everyone is going well, and i shall see you all in a couple of days..
By the way family my flight arrives in at 5.20am on the 31st so it may be time to start pulling straws :)
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