I wasn’t feeling well, I had a cold and was acting like a boy with man flu. I dragged myself out of bed, finished packing and popped downstairs to the hotel lobby where I was to wait for the small bus that would take me to the big bus. I was quickly warned by the driver and the assistant at the front desk of the hotel that because I had so much luggage I would have to be very careful at the bus station, making sure that it all got aboard the bus.
I sat myself in 3A, very glad that it was a window seat, something to lean on while I had a nap. I made the effort to introduce myself to my neighbour, a Dermatologist from Germany and then promptly fell asleep. I left the hotel just before 7am, and we arrived at our lunch stop at about 11.30am. The poor Dermatologist thought that we had already reached Siem Reap, I was the one to inform him that I thought we still had about two hours to go.
Myself, the Dermatologist and an IT Banking Specialist from Hong Kong found ourselves sitting together at the table, actually I found myself falling asleep in my food, still grumbling about my cold. It was at this point that the IT Banking Specialist informed us that the bus had stopped for a while during our journey because of a flat tyre. I am really glad that I wasn’t the only one that hadn’t noticed this, the Dermatologist must have been having a nap too!
My napping was constantly interrupted by other things; the constant warning honk to cars, push bikes, pedestrians, cows etc., as we overtook them and the loud karaoke that was playing on the screen in the front of the bus! The window slowly became my enemy, not my friend. Each time I was woken up, as a reflect I would smack my head on the side of the bus, ouch! We finally reached our destination at about 2.30pm, we’ll see how a different bus goes this weekend when I do the return journey!
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