Category: Daily Life in Cambodia

Dittmeier’s Own…

These Dittmeier’s Own postings are a series of photos of places I frequent and utilize here in Cambodia.

This is Jack, owner of Jack Repair Bicycle shop in Phnom Penh. He’s holding my bicycle on which he just put a new rear wheel after the rim somehow got bent. Jack’s shop is on my way to the Deaf Development Programme so it makes it very convenient to have repairs done. And he speaks excellent English which really helps when I’m trying to explain some bicycle quirk. (I don’t know where he got the name Jack. Maybe some customer called him that? It certainly isn’t a Cambodian name).

I see that a large winter storm is threatening heavy snowfall over much of the United States in the next few days. Maybe a White Christmas? The weather service here has also been putting out some alerts: The headline above cautions that temperatures could possibly drop below 68ºF! Bundle up!

Where are we?!

You could be forgiven for thinking that these sale items on display might be in a grocery store in the US but the photo is from a “supermarket” for foreigners here in Phnom Penh today. Kraft macaroni and cheese, Skippy peanut butter (both creamy and super chunk you’ll note), and Hormel Spam. That’s rather American! (The ketchup bottles at back left are from France.)