Daily Life in Cambodia – Page 70 – Welcome to Cambodia, and…..

Wet Market

People not previously familiar with wet and dry markets are maybe now more cognizant of wet markets because a wet market in Wuhan, China was the starting point of the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to see pictures of a wet market in Cambodia.

I think I’ll wait till I get home

Coming home today I passed a sidewalk food vendor grilling some kind of meat. Next to him on the sidewalk he had all these strips of whatever it is put out for drying in the sun.

Just the skeleton…

This is a typical house in a Cambodian city, what is called a shophouse. It’s one room wide and this one has four floors. The lot it is on would be about 15 feet by 50 feet. In many countries the ideal house is on a good-sized piece of land away from the city center. Just the opposite in Phnom Penh. A house like this one will do just fine, thank you, the fulfillment of a dream.

Always blooming

One of the nice things about Cambodia and its tropical climate is that there are always plants and trees that are blooming. There is such a variety of colors and blooms and smells!

Flat Tire

He did fill the flat rear tire with air to see if the leak could be located, but that didn’t help and my driver went down the street and found another motorcycle taxi to take me the rest of the way home while he searched for a place to repair the tire.

Windows Haiku

You know those error messages that pop up too frequently in Windows, the ones like 404 (Page not found)? Well, now there is an alternative if you would like to be informed with a little more poetry. Take this one for example:

Three things are certain
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which occurred.