Pottering in Phnom Penh
Oct. 24th, 2008 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietSo, I've spent the last couple of days pottering gently around Phnom Penh, which has been a most pleasant way to spend a couple of days. Had a chat with a couple of Australian girls in the FCC yesterday evening (one of whom works here, the other in Ho Chi Minh City aka Saigon); and then another chat with a nice Columbian woman called Lina, over dinner. Socialisation! Don't think I've had a conversation that long since I left Beijing.
Today, I finally got around to spending 1.5 hrs sorting out photos, as a result of which I've uploaded a whole 6 to Flickr. (I have 60, but [insert here rant about sodding upload speeds & uploads that take 45 min & then say they didn't bloody do anything; and then stupid Windows machines that refuse to open the damn folders any more arghghghgh ANYWAY. I will try again another time; at least they're sorted out now.]).
Tomorrow morning I am off to Siam Reap to visit the temples at Angkor, which are by all accounts spectacular.
Further on geckos: local name is ching-cha (very short a, very nearly "chat"); Dad tells me that in Singapore & Indonesia they're chat-chats. The waiter at the FCC who told me this then said "But the big ones are tak-ei," and pointed up into the corner between roof and walls, where there was an ENORMOUS (OK, maybe a foot long) lizard, looking a bit like a cross between an iguana and a gecko. Cor. I shall have another look for that one tonight.
Today, I finally got around to spending 1.5 hrs sorting out photos, as a result of which I've uploaded a whole 6 to Flickr. (I have 60, but [insert here rant about sodding upload speeds & uploads that take 45 min & then say they didn't bloody do anything; and then stupid Windows machines that refuse to open the damn folders any more arghghghgh ANYWAY. I will try again another time; at least they're sorted out now.]).
Tomorrow morning I am off to Siam Reap to visit the temples at Angkor, which are by all accounts spectacular.
Further on geckos: local name is ching-cha (very short a, very nearly "chat"); Dad tells me that in Singapore & Indonesia they're chat-chats. The waiter at the FCC who told me this then said "But the big ones are tak-ei," and pointed up into the corner between roof and walls, where there was an ENORMOUS (OK, maybe a foot long) lizard, looking a bit like a cross between an iguana and a gecko. Cor. I shall have another look for that one tonight.
