October 2011
Mamy observing the Gulf of Thailand
Hi there and many thanks for taking an effort to visit the site. This month it has been 11 years since I started the pages on the Angelfire Lycos servers… I still keep an opening there, but lost most of my archives. I should work on their recovery one day, but not now….
We are now fully settled in Phnom Penh, right in the middle of the monsoons… raining, floods, hot and humid… sweating…
Maxi found a big house, I really mean a mansion, a palace with 7 oversized bedrooms. The container with our goodies from India has arrived with a month’s delay after it was send to the wrong destination… oops…yet another bonus point for ‘ Incredible India who was managing the shipment.
Corner of Street Sisowath Quay
Apart from that, there are many small stories to share, but let me start with Sarah’s project. She is doing a documentary on architecture. Phnom Penh’s building development had halted for many years and only now we see that new big constructions are rising on every street corner, including supermarkets and KFCs. Where we go in town, we see remnants of old colonial and post colonial houses and buildings combined with ‘ New Khmer constructions’, a style conceived by a Cambodian student of Le Corbusier, Mr Vann Molyvann. Sarah’s aim for her school project is to capture this with the eyes of an adolescent and publish a booklet in December. Follow her on Sarah’s project page.
The former house of the Governor of Indochine, .....our place for 4 days
September is also the month of Maxi’s birthday. We still had nothing in the house to organize anything by than, so we decided to head to the coast, to Kep, the colonial ‘Knokke le Zoute’ of the old Indochina and have 4 days in the relaxing environment of Knai Bang Chatt resort.
The whole resort is made up of eleven rooms that are individually decorated with its own identity and taste. The villas are designed with large terraces open to breathtaking views of the sea and the islands. The surrounding
garden space is perfect for yoga and meditation, Marc’ s cup of tea…. Have a look at the page with the pictures.
At the cross roads of Buddhism and Hinduism
Buying Krabs .....
By the end of October the monsoons will end, we hope to be able to plan for a family visit to Angkor Wat before the end of the year. We still have a lot to explore and to discover in this country.
Wish you all the best and keep in touch
