No frogs today, is the plague over? Though there was a small rodent in the bath. Not a rat as it barely had a tail, and it clearly hadn’t been there long.
The GF’s mother arrived this evening, somewhat wobbly after her journeys but in good spirits and certainly better health than her last visit, which was to Istanbul in the late summer when she was really quite the worse for wear. I had to disappear very quickly as I had to interview someone for a piece at around dinner time, and technical difficulties made it rather challenging, but eventually it was done.
During the afternoon the GF and I took the tuktuk down to the market to stock up on vegetables, including some relatively unusual ones like lotus stems – not the fat kind I’m used to, but very slender ones that had featured in a salad before. After this we popped into the Kep crab market for lunch which turned out to be much more pleasant than I’d expected or than it looked like from the outside. It was snug in places, but clean, not too hot and not filled with either flies or cats. We got a Kampot mackerel which is a noble creature, more than we could finish between us as it was much more meaty than we realised. With it a very tasty chilli sauce. The Cambodian style of sweet chilli sauce, at least the ones here in Kep, are much nicer than the sickly ones I’ve had elsewhere.