... time to return. To South-East Asia, that is, for the second of our major retirement adventures. It's Tuesday, 1st November 2011, and we're looking out at the gorgeous autumn colours in the trees here in The Quad whilst waiting for our chauffeur (my mum) to come and whisk us off to Heathrow for our flight to Pnhom Penh this evening.
(* Anyone else remember this childhood game which we used to play on the first day of each month way back when?)
As last year, we'll be posting blogs fairly regularly, and we hope you'll enjoy the travels along with us. Our first port of call is Cambodia and, after spending a few days in Phnom Penh (not forgetting to pronounce the 'p' at the beginning of each word, you may remember from last year's blog**, so as not to offend the Khmer people!), we're heading off down to work at the New Futures orphanage in Takeo once again. After that, maybe a trip to the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, and then on to pastures new in Malaysia and Indonesia.
(** For those of you who have asked about last year's blog, by the way, the address then was simply http://www.andyandbarbara.blogspot.com/.)
Seat belts on? Then away we go......
Bon voyage!
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ReplyDeleteCool, have a great time guys. Raine and I are envious. Reminds me of the trip we did through Cambodia - was great. Fried spiders in Skuon and amazing ruins in Angkor Wat. Great memories. We will check in and see how you are faring :).
ReplyDeleteHave a good journey. At least I wont be letting you down this Christmas!
ReplyDeletedon't worry, the washings dry and all folded for your return.
ReplyDeleteHappy landing and have a wonderful adventure.
Happy travels folks..... Just a thought to travel with you, Rui wanted to know why You were mentioned on BBC news the other day, he'd heard the news reader talking about GDP....!
ReplyDeleteOh and pinch punch, Matt and I race to do this each month and have done for years, by the way I won November.
Sorry, for other followers, in our house GDP stands for Grand Dad Pops, which is what my kids call their Grandad...!
ReplyDeleteHello young travellers. Good to see you have your family and landlady traelling with you, judging by the blogs above! Thanks for the reminder about 'hnom enh'...but I don't have trouble with hard p's just yet! I'd remembered about the soft pronounciation from last year and your story about the poor doggie in Laos, the one with jaw wired up...could only say "Mark, Mark"! I know, I know...Lotsa love, Clive xxx
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