We are officially in paradise. This is just the best place ever!!! At the moment we are sitting on the green sofas overlooking the sea eating Vietnamese fish caught today soooo delicious I don’t want to go back to beans on toast that’s for sure but if either of my children are offering a roast dinner on 2 April we would be delighted ( hint hint) Our fishermans cottage is a wooden small building with a pointed roof and a veranda and an open air bathroom. It feels funny doing a wee in the garden but nice and breezy. There are two beds with beautiful flowy Mossi nets over them I feel like a princess in my pretty bed at night and what’s better is that I can’t hear happy Buddha snoring so much in his own little bed. There are hammocks on the beach tied to trees so I thought I would have a go. I got on really easily and layer there swinging reading the problems started when I needed to get up!!!! I thought surely if I just do what I did to get on I would be fine but as soon as I moved the hammock started to spin and I got caught for what seemed like ages. I called for dave to rescue me before anyone saw me dangling but he was asleep  – or ignoring me and two passers by just laughed. I did eventually release myself somewhat ungratefully though but it was funny. I also fell over on the beach – the sea when it comes in makes a small wall of sand, everyone just slid their feet down it and walked into the sea but I put one foot on the sand and my foot just went straight out and I unceremoniously slid into the sea to the sound of sunbathers laughter. My third embarrassment was when rolled over on my sun bed to speak to dave but didn’t realise the mattress and slipped sideways so as I rolled over to speak to dave I rolled off the sun bed for all to see me looking like an upside down tortoise !!!

We have seen lots of wildlife here. Because we are at the edge of the jungle there are lots of creatures. Long scary snacked that May come into your cottage. If they someone comes and catches them and takes them away to eat them! We have also seen lizards that are about 30 cms long and very colourful, they don’t hurt you they just run away if they see people. Yesterday someone’s cows came walking through just past our cottage and it was like no one even noticed. They just carried on walking. I really won’t want to leave here ever but tomorrow we have go but Cambodia will be lovely I Am sure. Have to go and do some more relaxing now – hard as it is I will volunteer for that job ha ha xxxxx.