The world is brighter since I left Phnom Penh this morning. The difference between this place and PP is staggering, but I’m not sure if the difference is the change in the location, or it’s just me. After my last entry and finishing my lunch I headed down to the beach. I didn’t know what to expect, but water is always a good thing for me. It didn’t take long before the sea came into view. Everything will be good from now on.

I walked to the end of a pier and watched a couple of guys fish for about ten minutes, or another way to describe it, I left when a girl started hitting on me. She was eating noodles on the far side of the pier and we got eye contact, about 30 seconds later she came over and asked where I was from, my answer; Phnom Penh.  I don’t think she got the joke, or maybe it was the snarky way I said it, but after about a minute of silence I got up and left.  I think many of the girls here regularly look for men in my age group, because these type of things are happening all the time since I’ve been in Cambodia. In Dubai I am lucky if a girl even looks at me, I can’t even imagine one coming up and talking to me, but here all I have to do is smile and I usually get attention.

I walked along the beach for about a mile taking in the pounding of the surf and the setting of the sun. It was so relaxing that I even stopped at a beachside bar to have a coke.

Tomorrow I am going on a cruise of the islands around here. It should be lots of fun, they take us to three islands, feed us breakfast and lunch, and take us snorkeling at one of the lagoons. I’m so looking forward to it and I should be able to get underwater video of it too.