Full Moon restaurant, Serendipity beach, Sihanoukville

Been sitting under the sun umbrella on the Serendipity beach all day today, occasionally swimming and sleeping but mostly compiling a list of things that the continuous stream of passing by locals have tried to sell us. The current list is: bracelets, sunglasses, small doughnuts, dried lobster, rambutan, durian, other fruits, massage, shoe repair, peanuts, pedicure, manicure, flyers offering free beer/vodka, shell ornaments, marijuana, opium, hashish, amphetamine, crab, fried squid, weight measurement, wreaths, banana crisps, other packaged crisps, other unidentified food/sweets.

Cambodian beach experience: many local vendors with whom one must constantly interact

There are also many beggars, mostly children, blind singers (escorted by children), and grown up men lacking some limbs. Some children collect empty (or half-empty) cans of soft drink.

Our today's donations/purchases:

• purchased 10 small doughnuts: 8000 KHR (~ 2 USD)
  
• donated 3 small doughnuts to three begging children
• donated a half-empty can of Coke to a can-collecting boy
• donated 2 small doughnuts to a one-legged man
• accepted one flyer that promised 0.25 USD beer at a disco party in the evening
• donated 1 USD to a blind singer
  

The beach is quite littered. Here at the beach bar/restaurant area it is not so bad but further along the coast to the yet to be developed area where locals go to have picnics it is very dirty, mostly with picnic food boxes. There are numerous small streams flowing into the sea. Csilla is convinced that these carry the crap of Sihanoukville into the water and has thus decided not to swim here at all.

Yesterday visited the Beach Road hotel that is run by a group of Estonians. The room prices there start at 15 USD (we are staying here at 5 USD) so we didn't venture beyond the restaurant area. Some Estonian attributes were present: an Estonian flag hanging outside; a clock showing Tallinn-time; a bookshelf with books by Mati Unt, Mihkel Raud and Jaroslav Hašek, among others; and an Estonian couple in a corner table working on their laptop (we briefly interacted with them). The menu included some potato-dishes (ate a good "fried potatoes with egg and cheese") but no real Estonian specialities (what are these anyway?). The drink list included Segu Seitse (red wine with Coke) but not the highlights Vana Tallinn and Viru Valge.