The time has come to say farewell,  to our month-long honeymoon –  It sure has been swell!  We’re taking home stuff and memories galore  And maybe a touch of Dysentery, it’s hard to know for sure…  But of course there are things that we will miss  so before i forget them, here’s my goodbye list: Farewell noodles and farewell rice  So long to gross desserts semi-based in ice Farewell to horking bus drivers and nasal passage clearing  And good riddance to all the in-the-street street spitting  So long to coffee filtered through a sock And all sorts of tasty things fried in a wok  Bye bye to warm weather and…

It might not be Cambodia’s fault. Expecting Khmer cuisine to compete after a mind-blowing 2 day food fest in Bangkok might just not be fair. Apparently some consider Cambodian cuisine to be a poor cousin to both Vietnamese and Thai cooking… And based on our experience it’s hard to disagree!   That said, in 9 days here we have managed to eat a delicious thing or two, and can now make 3 recommendations on how Khmer Cuisine is best enjoyed.  1.  Eat only the freshest seafood. The food in Kep, Cambodia was amazing but it turned out that even the uber-fresh seafood we’d been eating in the market could be beat.…

Let’s just be honest… Is what i said to jay this morning when I suggested we lie to our hotel in Kep, Cambodia about why we needed to stow our bags tomorrow but didn’t need a ride anywhere. We are moving to a fancy resort 150 meters away, and it seemed like an honest story to tell them that we didn’t know someone else had arranged for it as part of our honeymoon. Jay pointed out that lying to them was not actually being honest … I suppose….  And it is a bit hard to see why we want to leave. The resort we’re in is beyond lovely.  The view…