{"id":2693,"date":"2016-07-09T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2016-07-10T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T15:21:18","slug":"july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"Saturday July 9-we eat and drink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basically that’s all we are doing these days. That and talking and laughing with friends. It really is a blessed life I lead. How could a day that starts with this not be a great day???<\/p>\n

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\nTroy and I caught a $2 Tuk Tuk with Ritchie over to Landon’s favourite coffee shop (mere). Fancy dancy place. I actually ordered a raspberry shake bcz I had already had 3 cups with brekkie. But this was Ritchie’s cup.<\/p>\n

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\nAlso pleased to report a successful trip to bank machine. I went onto the bank website yesterday after fiasco in Kampot and set up a travel alert. Was hopeful this would solve the issue without having to call bank and sit on hold etc. This happened to us before when our c\/c was flagged when traveling \u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u00b3<\/p>\n

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We then went over to Landon’s apartment for a tour. Nice place, good location, affordable. I think he’ll be happy there for a while.<\/p>\n

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The streets of Phnom Phen are not for the feeble….<\/p>\n

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The decision was made to have Indian food for lunch. Yum! Landon recommended we go to a place he’d been before. And for $7.50 a person we had more good than we could eat. But we sure did try!<\/p>\n

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We don’t get anything crazy, butter chicken, tikka Marsala and garlic naan. Yum!!!<\/p>\n

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After a quick jaunt though the local market over by Landon and Sam’s place, Troy and I felt it was time for massage. So we went in search of such a thing. We looked at the place by our hotel, $8 \u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u00b3seems high. So we kept walking, found another place, $7. Maybe that just is what is costs here. So in we go…..good to see what is NOT happening…..<\/p>\n

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\nHahahaha. Honestly, This is the first time I’ve seen this sign here. Really.<\/p>\n

As the day wore on, we figured it had been a couple hours since we ate or drank, so best tend to those needs. The evening was a series of hops around town. With Vanna and Sam as our trusty navigators, we saw some really cool places. Started the evening at Eclipse. A rooftop bar on top of a 22 floor building. This is about as tall as the buildings get here. Simply amazing view of the whole city and the sunset.<\/p>\n

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\nI’ve discovered a drink I like.<\/p>\n

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\nThen we took a Tuk Tuk to FCC (foreign correspondent club) back over by the riverside, had a drink (was supposed to be a coconut \u00c2\u00a0milkshake, but I don’t think That’s what it was, more like just a shake, no ice cream). Then we went to the Grand River restaurant \u00c2\u00a0where I could have ordered cigarettes right along with my Meal. At an alarmingly low price I might add.<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed an order of beef lok lak as Landon highly recommended it from this restaurant.. Happy to try it out as this is a favorite Cambodian dish of mine. It was indeed delicious. Troy had burger and it was reportedly “meh” at best. Bummer….<\/p>\n

That was it for me for the night, the rest of the group was getting into a Tuk Tuk to go to the Munich beer gardens. But I was hitting the wall and was eager for sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Basically that’s all we are doing these days. That and talking and laughing with friends. It really is a blessed life I lead. How could a day that starts with this not be a great day??? Troy and I caught a $2 Tuk Tuk with Ritchie over to Landon’s favourite coffee shop (mere). Fancy dancy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}