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Hi folks, Another very different month.  Mark and I have been working flat out and haven’t been home since January 2020, so we really needed to take a little break.  There are no tourists here at the moment and the hotels are really struggling, room prices including breakfast are extremely cheap, so we took a Read Full Article

Halfway through the year again, where does the time go?  June was a little busier thanks to all of Phnom Penh being reassigned as a Yellow Zone (freedom of movement with restrictions) and curfews have been lifted.  Restaurants are now allowed to open for sit-in with much lower numbers of tables and people. Mark and Read Full Article

May was a quiet month; we all went into lock-down for approximately 3 weeks.  Covid soared during May to 24,000 people  considering the whole of 2020 we had just over 300 cases! Over here if you have Covid, you are taken to locations such as schools or hospitals to be quarantined. The officials decided to Read Full Article

Last month we reported that our son Adam had been admitted to the Royal Phnom Penh with what we thought was a kidney infection. It turned out that he had three abscesses in his liver.  He was operated on and a drain put into the biggest abscess.  The surgeon managed to drain the second one Read Full Article

We are going to start this newsletter by introducing our wonderful Operations Manager, Pich Sokheng.  She is such a blessing to us and our children.  We will say no more and let her tell it herself: My name is Sokheng I was born in a small village in Kampong Cham Province. I have five siblings Read Full Article

February is normally a month of getting back into a routine (same old, same old), broken resolutions already and cold wintery days (for us hot humid days). February for us started with having our Accounts audited and all the frustration that brings.  Trying to ensure we do everything the correct way in Cambodia and that Read Full Article

Happy belated New Year, over here we celebrate three New Year’s (very confusing).  We have: Western New Year 1st January, Chinese New Year 12th February Khmer New Year 14th April. At the moment everywhere is red, all the shops, restaurants, and malls very colourful – although we are not fans of the music. Most people Read Full Article

As you will not get your newsletter until in January, can we start by saying we hope you had as wonderful Christmas as possible and that you got to spend time with those you love.  Also, we pray that 2021 will be a good year for all of us, that COVID will go in the Read Full Article

November is a really nice month, the rain stops, we get some cool winds and cooler temperatures.  This time leads into hot season were temperatures can rise to 39-40 degrees so everyone enjoys the cooler days while they can. We are now working towards Christmas, buying gifts for the children, and teaching them Christmas worship Read Full Article

During rainy season we have what people in the West would call heavy downpour rain, it comes on out of the blue and you get a drenching in seconds.  Lately the rain has been unrelenting, and a lot of Cambodia is now under water.   To date 11 people have died and many have lost their Read Full Article