Driving Miss Gabs....

Sorry for being such a moralistic prude this morning! But I was woken up at around 4:00 am...My room being right next to to the kitchen and "Le Picine" - A small affair filled up with chubby Canadians/Americans and well fed Europeans.... and their typical derrogatory remarks about all things foreign....! I'm not too good my self, mind you... I suspiciusly easy fall into the role of imperious old Memsahib.... With a disarming smile...(I hope!) When the hotelboys tell me that "your driver, Madam, is here"- And after all these manicures, pedicures, foot masssages, back rubsand the beeing wated upon hand and foot at all times and everywhere.... then it's even harder not to do the "White Woman in the tropics" act... I don't think that I've carried my own backpack for much longer than 100 mtrs, I have not been ignored in restaurants and the mere fact, that I can go anywhere... even places, where anywhere else in the world would be a "no-no"for riff-raff like me - Just because of my lack of skin colour.... Makes it heaven on earth, ha'kuun! ( Which means: "Thank you" in Kmer - ethnic Cambodian)


This place is full of foreign people, of the sort you don't see in any other place in Cambodia....(Apart from Sihanukville, which's fast becomming the San Antonio, Ibiza of Cambodia) You kniw the sort; Bleached, young and extremely pale English girls in miniskirts and minimal tops, constantly playing with their hair... The male counterparts are equally pale going pinkish, in low hanging shorts and t-shirts saying something about getting drunk and that not being a problem or sporting a marihuanna leafe/joints/dead reggae heroes totin' ( And then they don't get it , when the are pulled over by the police in drug controls?) They are all very loud and not in the least interrested in the country, culture, peoples... only in having, what they consider a good time: Getting drunk, stoned and laid.... preferably as cheap as possible...They will haggle a beer down from the 0.50 cents it costs to maybe 0.45 c and being very proud of it! This in a country where an average worker makes max. 20 USD a month!Halleluja.... Let's save the world!

Well, tomorrow my driver is waiting for me at 5:00 am and of we'll go, to see the sunset at the Angor wat.....

And now it's raining cats and dogs again... Turning all the red dirt roads into rivers of mud.....; "Driver!... come here... Memsahib wants to go home!!!".....