Day 47 Travel

20/04/13
After packing and having breakfast, there wasn't much time before my boat to the mainland arrived, as not many people stay over I was the sole passenger on this seagoing vessel. Back on terra firma I bargained for a tuktuk which took me to the town centre where I tried a couple of places for tickets to Battambang, a town the other side of Cambodia. One place wanted to charge me twice the price of another and was going to take longer so I politely declined their generous offer.. The other establishment was still charging a princely sum of $17 including a lengthy stop of 7 hours in Phnom Phen, but it was the best deal on the table so I took it. I spent the next 2 hours in a cafe reading and eating, then I turned up at 12.45, as requested, to wait for the bus. The 'bus' was in fact a minibus and left at 13.10. We went to two different hotel to pick up more passengers, the first place there was nobody waiting, apparently they would be at the bus stop when we go back, as they weren't we waited 5 minutes, which turned into 15, by 13.45 only one extra person had turned up so we left without the last passenger who was far beyond fashionably late and beyond late so it was their own fault they missed out. Four and a half hours later we rocked up in Phnom Phen where I have spent the last 3+ hours in 2 different drinking establishments, I am currently sat in an Irish bar, hoping that there is going to be some Premier League action in a short while. I still have 4 hours to kill until my bus leaves at 00.30, I can see this is going to be an evening of procrastination!