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Well after buying the 7:15 bus ticket to

Phnom Penh, had to get up early. We arrived at the bus by about 7, then onto the bus after getting some crappy bus food snacks. We eventually left about 7:45and the trip was pretty painless. When we arrived in PP at about11:30 we bought a ticket to Battambang at 12:30. I decided it was time for a shave, so went to find a barber. It was so different after the shave almost wish I didn’t do it.

The bus to Battambang was painful it seemed to take forever which was quite frustrating. In the end I think it was about 6-7 hours when they said it would be about 4. Now I am very cynical about start, finish and overall trip times. We decided to do a Cambodian and Thai cooking course at ‘Smoking Pot’ which was running the next morning, so we booked that, and had a little look around town.

The next day it was cooking time, it was a great course starting at 9:30am. First of all we went around the market and bought all the ingredients which was good, saw a lot of stuff you never get to see, they had a bag of frogs, alive and proceeded to de-glove them one by one, quite off putting.

We ended up cooking a curry, a stir fry and a soup making everything from scratch. So now I can make curry paste from scratch, and make coconut milk from scratch. The food was good but it is amazing how different it can taste between three or four people. The rest of the day we walked around town and booked a boat ticket to take us to Siem Reap the next day.