Sue is back, safe and well. She is navigating Asia with good skills now, fully informing the taxi driver that he was lost in Bangkok (for when she had to stop over the night). I am like totally and utterly lost permanently in Bangkok - it is a hideously-sized city. Anyway, the long missing wife is back in Phnom Penh just fine.
My trip to the airport to get her was marked with hilarity. An intersection on the way used to be so much fun, but has since been ruined with the introduction of traffic lights. This night, the lights were out and people were flooding into the city for the boat racing during Water Festival. The chaos was utterly glorious - gridlock to the max.
I used the time to observe new records - 12 adults and a little child in one tuk tuk; five teenage boys on one motorbike. It took perhaps 15 minutes to get thru' the intersection. Two hapless police with glo sticks and whistles were barely visible in the midst of everything. They may as well have been twiddly-winks players - the louder they blew their whistles, the more completely they were ignored.
The resident kiwis were well aware that Susie was back. Coffee on Thursday morning was the go with Colleen, Grahame and Sue Taylor and Sue Hanna - all NZ'ers and all living in our area. Susie supplied the choccy goodies.
The legendry, humble Pineapple Lump - world famous beyond NZ
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