Getting to Cambodia

It’s 9pm on Tuesday night, our second day in Cambodia. We’ve been out all day visiting the temples around Siem Reap and are hopefully now over the flight and crazy day getting to Thailand and Cambodia. I’ve taken heaps of photos in just two days and am now starting to upload some of them. Something funny is happening with my PC and it seems to be very slow and the mouse won’t work – very frustrating, particularly when you’re trying to upload photos. Never mind I will try to the achieve the impossible twice – write entertainingly while wanting to hiff this silly PC in the swimming pool and multi-task by loading up photos and writing the blog at the same time.

We spent 4 days in Wanaka having Christmas with Mum and Dad. It was good to catch up with them and have some really relaxing time. We both needed that after a busy and holiday free second half of 2008.

We left Wanaka at 7:30am on Sunday morning (too early) to head to Queenstown airport to fly to Auckland. We had a 4 hour layover, which was just enough time to lose our straw hats which we’ve been traveling with for the last few years. Mine’s an old panama, which I got in the UK 15 years ago, so no great loss, but Anne’s was a very stylish one we got in France a couple of years ago, so it was annoying to lose that.

We flew to Bangkok on Thai Air, who were really good. I’m always getting a hard time for insisting we fly economy class, so I particularly liked there sign on the bulk head at the front on economy which said “Economy class toilets – DOWN THE BACK” down the back was highlighted in red. Put me in my place.

The flight was excellent and on arrival at 9:30pm we cleared customs and headed to the airport Novotel for some sleep before a 4:30 am start to get to the airport for a 5:30am check in for a 7:30 flight to Siem Reap.