Just call me Lance

Howdy folks,

Thanks for all the birthday messages (& donations to the Will's liver destruction fund!). We went out for a muchos nice meal in Saigon, and had a bottle of wine for the first time since leaving - such luxury!

Unfortunately, we had slightly too silly a night and totally failed to get up in time for our bus to cambodia. Oops. So we just had a day of bumming about in Saigon, then took a trip the day after that took us into the Mekong delta to a bunch of villages & stuff, stayed overnight in a place called Chau Doc, and got a boat up the Mekong, into Cambodia. Fortunately, we avoided both going loopy and getting shot with arrows, which was nice.

So now we're in Cambodia! We had our first full day in Phnom Penh today, and did the 'nice' bits - royal palaces and the like. We're going to do the difficult bits tomorrow - a school building that was used as a torture and internment camp set up by Pol Pot's security forces where moer than 17,000 people were held and then killed in 3 years in the late 70s. It's pretty hard to take in.

On a lighter note, amongst the stuff at the palace today was a model of Angkor Wat, and I can't wait - it's gonna be amazing. We're heading to the beach first, the day after tomorrow, and then heading to Siam Reap (from which you get to Angkor) in a week or so.


Hope you're all well,


Will.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.