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Despite sickness all around we continued with our planned visit back to K’s village. Although we’d had a day of rest after our island trip, K and the kids were still pretty sick (high temps, body aches, developing cough), so we indulged in the luxury of a private taxi for the ~1 hour trip fromContinue reading “Homeward bound: Village Visit”

Despite having been in Cambodia for less than a week, we had scheduled a trip to one of the beautiful islands off the coast of Sihanoukville, Koh Rong Sonloem. We were making this trip with Jonno and Ren Nutter (K and Jonno are working closely together on the build of the new BEC here), KarenContinue reading “Interrupted island idyll”

 In the interests of keeping your interest, let’s just say that all that slow, long-haul travel went reasonably well. Just a couple of small hitches. While we managed to pack 150kg into our 6 checked in bags (including 90kg of tools), K’s concrete drill went into carry on. It’s a power drill, totally battery-less, howeverContinue reading “The lowdown since we left NZ”

So I always thought David Bowie sang “Time to face the change, ch-ch-changes”, but it turns out the lyrics are “Turn and face the strange”. Equally applicable in this case, because that is what we have been doing! There have been ch-ch-changes aplenty! We’ve packed up our house and family, left one city (goodbye Wellington),Continue reading “Ch-ch-ch-changes”