Otres Sucks Too...
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 1:41 pm
After two weeks 'downtown' on Victory Hill I'm a week-and-a-half into a four-week stay at Otres. What a shit hole! Almost everyone is either: stoned, drunk, stupid or incompetent (or some combination of the four).
The 'Village' & main street is a construction zone with an endless parade of giant trucks and cement mixers kicking up constant clouds of choking dust. The beaches are nice (but I didn't come for the beach) and seem to be the only reason someone would be stupid (or stoned) enough to live here. The fuckin' ubiquitous 'man buns' and 20-somethings who think it's the summer of '67 (in combination with every 'new age' wacko trend) and the neo-Nazi biker wannabes are driving me insane.
The 'resort' (Sok Sabay) is nice with well-designed/appointed rooms and a small but decent pool. However, it's staffed buy a troop of retarded baboons who do nothing but spend all day staring at cartoons on their phones.
Q: How many Khmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 12... and it takes four-and--a-half fuckin' hours!
The 'Lake' must be a fetid sewage collection pond in dry season. Now, it seems like a large extension of the mud roads.
The resort wants $7/day for a moto!... and I would have had to leave my passport (event though I'm a guest)... which is difficult to do when it's being sent to PP for a visa extension. With a photocopy of my passport I got a moto for less than $4/day from one of the few competent Khmers in the village. Naturally, 'resort' food & drink prices are inflated; but, the 'Full English Breakfast' (eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, mushrooms and half a baguette is not only overpriced, it's disgusting - the 'sausage' is fuckin' fish (fake crab - surimi)! Their pizza is surprisingly good, large and well-priced. Oh well... live & learn.
Thank heaven for 'Adam's Family' Restaurant - an amazing breakfast (with real, smoked sausage) and fantastic schnitzel & mashed potatoes for dinner (a good burger too). Khmer Kitchen has an extensive menu of good food at good prices.
Gotta go - despite wi-fi being available throughout the resort (it is for phones... but not computers) I have to take the laptop to 'Reception' to be able to stay connected to the Internet.
I won't be retiring in Snooky... that's for sure!
More next week... maybe.
TTFN,
Cruisemonkey
The 'Village' & main street is a construction zone with an endless parade of giant trucks and cement mixers kicking up constant clouds of choking dust. The beaches are nice (but I didn't come for the beach) and seem to be the only reason someone would be stupid (or stoned) enough to live here. The fuckin' ubiquitous 'man buns' and 20-somethings who think it's the summer of '67 (in combination with every 'new age' wacko trend) and the neo-Nazi biker wannabes are driving me insane.
The 'resort' (Sok Sabay) is nice with well-designed/appointed rooms and a small but decent pool. However, it's staffed buy a troop of retarded baboons who do nothing but spend all day staring at cartoons on their phones.
Q: How many Khmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 12... and it takes four-and--a-half fuckin' hours!
The 'Lake' must be a fetid sewage collection pond in dry season. Now, it seems like a large extension of the mud roads.
The resort wants $7/day for a moto!... and I would have had to leave my passport (event though I'm a guest)... which is difficult to do when it's being sent to PP for a visa extension. With a photocopy of my passport I got a moto for less than $4/day from one of the few competent Khmers in the village. Naturally, 'resort' food & drink prices are inflated; but, the 'Full English Breakfast' (eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, mushrooms and half a baguette is not only overpriced, it's disgusting - the 'sausage' is fuckin' fish (fake crab - surimi)! Their pizza is surprisingly good, large and well-priced. Oh well... live & learn.
Thank heaven for 'Adam's Family' Restaurant - an amazing breakfast (with real, smoked sausage) and fantastic schnitzel & mashed potatoes for dinner (a good burger too). Khmer Kitchen has an extensive menu of good food at good prices.
Gotta go - despite wi-fi being available throughout the resort (it is for phones... but not computers) I have to take the laptop to 'Reception' to be able to stay connected to the Internet.
I won't be retiring in Snooky... that's for sure!
More next week... maybe.
TTFN,
Cruisemonkey