I would have thought that it would be hard to do less than nothing, but it feels like over the last couple of days that is what we have accomplished. Not to say that is a bad thing as we are on vacation after all, and sometimes you need to just relax and take in the surroundings.

The weather here in Kampot is working against us (or for us if the actual plan was to take a few days off), and the rain has set in. We are used to rain in SE Asia that typically comes in short downpours, but this is the socked in, I’m sticking around for a while kind of rain, and any sort of day trip or anything that we could do would just end up with a bunch of crabby people in a van looking at things from the windows.

We spend these couple of days reading books, having some video chats with the kids back home, and just generally hanging around at our hotel. They have a big sala down at the riverside with a few big basket chairs and I have discovered that they must have been designed with reading a book on your Kindle in mind.

The good news is that it is supposed to clear in a couple of days so we are planning trips to Kep and Bokor Hill station if the weather co-operates. The bad news is that it is supposed to actually get worse after that, and one of the forecasts I read for our next stop in Sihanoukville is for ‘torrential downpour’ for a few days. Based on that forecast we have decided that maybe we should move on from Cambodia for this year and spend our last week back in Thailand where the weather forecast seems a bit more in our favor.

All is not lost here though, as we have had a nice couple of days to relax, and we were able to use the downtime to make the arrangements for the next leg of our trip.