Today's special

Electrical installation works are in progress - and they are not too photogenic, unfortunately. Mainly this is bringing electricity to more powerful receivers: a dishwasher, oven, grill etc. Tedious and time-consuming job. Indispensable for the functioning of the kitchen, though ... And that is wh...

A regenerative meal

Sometimes we start the day off later and with good "second" breakfast. Most of the prepared dishes are rehearsals before the final menu in the "Chameleon". THe croisant and chocolate cake are the produce of a local Belgian bakery. We also buy bread and rolls there - a little more expensive, but it...

A holiday and furniture

Cambodia is during the celebration of the Buddhist religious holiday of Pchum Ben (the Day of Ancestors’). It lasts about two weeks, during which people visit their immediate family (this applies mainly to those who work outside the place of origin) and the place of burial of their ancestors. Daily ...

Back to normal

Everything has returned to normal: the pace of events is holding a steady determined rhythm. Something is happening all the time. In the morning I got a call from the local electricity office pay an appropriate fee (USD 190 !!) for replacing the pre-meter security from 10 to 20 A, which we applied ...

The end of the containre battle

It’s been a GREAT DAY for us today. At 9:00 am a container arrived at our house! The same one that we’d said goodbye to on July 28 in Szczecin. "Already" after 70 days he came into our hands. The procedure for extracting a container from the port of Sihanouville requires a separate story. I will n...

Palm trees and cats

There is no time for unproductive waiting. We resume our activities according to the possibilities. We do the indispensable shopping and start the necessary installations. The beginning of November cannot come a surprise for us. Lim keeps saying that we MUST open “the shop" - as he calls our bar - ...

Monsoon dounpour

On a very hot afternoon, we went for bamboo shopping: we have a new idea to "reduce" the cieling height of our main bar room. We barely managed to reach the destination, and ... it got started! It was a beautiful downpour! It lasted only about an hour, but it probably managed to fill all the surrou...

Forced break in our work

For four days, we have been idle on the blog, because no acivities took place at home. The customs office has not yet defined the amount of tax to the agency which deal with our container; so the whole thing is at the dead ponit. We are guessing that the office has a problem whether to apply the h...