Cambodia trip 2016 - the Rowan & Ellie Wedding Edition Pt IX
1/11/2016 Leaving Phnom Penh
The day of leaving has arrived. I'm not ready for it :( haven't done nearly enough sitting around relaxing, reading and playing games. Sigh….
Breakfast from the place across the road, this time I tried the rice porridge (named? ), which had a strong fish theme.
Ellie had to go and help Gemma with some official document stuff so I had to just say goodbye to her in the morning. Back home to bag packing and table tennis while Rowan baked us a batch of surprise muffins :) happily none of the surprises were durian, but each one of the dozen contained different fruit! Yummy :)
Sopiya came to collect us at 11:30 and Rowan can along to say goodbye. It doesn't take long to check in and go through customs there so we parted with Rowan just after 12. Emptied my water bottle, carried it through and filled it from a fountain in the gate area. Hope it's filtered!
A320 flight to Singapore, panic attacks but got there fine. I honestly don't know what people see in Singapore airport. The butterflies are nice, but so many shops of expensive crap! I didn't even got any chocolate, unless my comprehension of dollar values has broken completely it didn't look particularly worthwhile. And S$14 for a 300g block of Cadbury Dairy Milk?!
Overnight flight from Singapore to Australia on an A380, my first time on one. So very big! And surprisingly noisy in wing motors and undercarriage, but at least the lumps weren't bad. Unfortunately we were in a seating area with a bunch of babies and small children nor having a great time of it, so apart from the usual discomfort, getting sleep was tough. I managed to doze though which is something. Cleared Australian customs without issue and went to wait for my bus, Arwin stuck at Sydney airport till his plane home at 2pm! As my original bus was cancelled I was able to change to another service, so I caught the 9:30 bus back to Canberra. The Australian bush/farm land is still as beautiful as ever but I'm most sad to be leaving Rowan and Ellie and going back to work already :(
