I wanted to finally write more about the wonderful city and surrounds of Luang Prabang tonight, gearing up to fill you in on some more adventures on the road with the family, and believe me we have had some adventures. This certainly has not been a boring trip.
However I now feel obliged to share the joys of our bellies.
As you will know from an earlier post, Declan managed to throw up in the taxi on arrival in Hanoi. That past pretty quickly thankfully.
Since arriving in Cambodia about 5 or 6 days ago, I have been quite unwell and came down with a case of what seems to be Giardia. Yippee for me!!
The symptoms have lasted for a few days culminating in a pretty bad day yesterday that had me knocked out. Luckily I met an angel on the road, well actually river to be precise, who gave me some antibiotics and I seem to be feeling a considerable bit better.
There is more to the story of Ian my 'angel', but I'll leave that for another blog, because the events of yesterday deserves a post all to itself, believe me.
After having eaten very little for a few days and not wanting to risk another bout of anything nasty, we decided on a reputable Italian restaurant for dinner tonight in Phnom Penh, recommended in Lonely Planet and various other guidebooks.
I have to say first impressions were not great. They stated they opened for dinner at 6pm , but sent us away for 10 minutes, even though it was already a smidge past 6pm.
We ordered a pizza, thin crust, tomato with a few slices of porcini and a couple of pastas.
They were no better (actually nowhere near) the standard of what i could wip up at home, let alone expect to be served in a good Italian restaurant that was charging decently for the place it's located in.
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm from Melbourne perhaps, a city that has an amazing array of good Italian food, from fine dining through to fabulous pizzerias that has set my expectations high. It was Ok, but I wouldn't return.
Now, I'm getting somewhere with this story so stay with me.
After dinner we had a lovely stroll along the Mekong waterfront illuminated by the full moon reflecting off the water. Quite a beautiful sight with lots of locals also enjoying the atmosphere, accompanied by fishing boats and cruisers meandering along.
As we were getting ready for bed, Phoebe says 'I don't feel well' then proceeds to release the contents of her stomach on the bed. I tell her to run to the bathroom, Declan to quickly go and grab a towel, thinking that would be the worst of it.
As the poor little munchkin runs to the bathroom she leaves a thick trail of everything that she could possibly have eaten in the last 12 hours.
She did get me to add extra parmesan to her pasta too. As if that doesn't have a pretty funky smell under normal conditions, regurgitated all over the room... not so good, let me tell you.
Here we were thinking we were playing it safe. Back to Khmer food for me tomorrow i think.
Night!
Hope you're all well.
xxxx
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