The rainy season

Well, “our" rainy season has not ended yet. Yesterday, after a hot morning a strong storm and a real downpour came. Every time I'm surprised that such amounts of water can fall from the sky at once, and the rats don’t drown anyway! Because people, unfortunately, do. Even Facebook shows such events....

In the kitcchen

It’s time for the next experiments in the kitchen. The decision has been made: there will be only twelve small hot and cold dishes (snacks) in a fixed set of our menu and one hot dish of the day, which will appear and disappear depending on the skills of the cook and the efficiency of the kitchen. ...

The cats

Today it’s going to be about cats. Specifically about Kama and Kamel. I do not think we managed to deal with the mentality of these Asian animals and we could not make friends with either of the two animals. Kamel used to live in the inhabited house next to us and would come to meals. He would on...

We are already seen

The emotions of the meant waiting for the assembly group of our advertising signs and making decisions about their "strategic" placement on the façade of our building. We do not want to disturb the aesthetics of the façade itself and the whole building and adjust to the appearance of neighbouring b...

In the city

Usually, we start each day by watching our bougainvilleas which change every day: they keep losing their leaves and they’re getting flowers. We'll see if this will continue ... Today we are going to the city to check the advancement of the production of "Chameleon” advertising signs. It turns out t...

Public holiday

On the occasion of the Day of Commemoration of the King Father - Norodom Sihanouk, a few words about the events in the history of Cambodia. On October 15, 2012, King Norodom Sihanouk died of a heart attack in a Beijing hospital. After three months there were funeral ceremonies - public cremation. B...

Folk festival

This weekend ends the two-week celebration of the Buddhist holidays Pchum Ben, which disrupts the functioning of foreigners just like us. And again just on Monday (October 15) there’s another national holiday. Commemoration This weekend ends the two-week celebration of the Buddhist world Pchum Ben,...

Imroving the acoustics

The main room of our house - the bar section - has a height of 4.70 m. There came up two important problems: lack of a safe high rise ladder, so that we could "develop" the ceiling and bad acoustics in such a volume. Since our bar has rattan furniture and a tropical decor in general, we decided to ...