Some sights to behold

There are always random sights to behold as we move around Sihanoukville. Here are a few of them:

This guy ascended the power pole outside our house to do some repairs wearing jandals (thongs), with a metal rod clutched between his toes, which he inserted into drilled holes in the pole in order to ascend. He clipped on his “safety harness” once he was up!

I discovered this scene around the corner from our house as I returned from the supermarket one evening. The concrete truck has managed to fall over and is slowly becoming secured in a pool of hardening concrete. As I watched they tied a rope around it’s belly and tried to haul it upright with a crane – all they managed to do was lift its bottom wheels up about 20cm. I didn’t have hours to watch the unfolding scenario so I left them to it.

The kids took it upon themselves to do a spontaneous clean up of the ditch outside our house – there is so much rubbish everywhere all the time. They collected this pile within about 20m of our place. When I say it’s filthy here I mean it!

Always some fascinating sights on the job site.

Tige woke up one morning and had clearly been bitten by something in the night! I think it may have been a spider.. it took a few days to go down.  Like I said, there’s always rubbish everywhere… and then there’s me and the kids on my trusty steed – always a random sight for the Khmer – I get a few stares and smiles as I drive around.