I felt I should have said more about my experience of Phnom Penh, I was there for 5 nights. I found the city to be congested, dirty, and the closer to the river you got the more dive bars there were, along with the sexpats (both young and old) that keep those bars going. The only good thing (for me) was the price of the beer.

Depending on where you were it could be $.50 to $1.25 for a nice chilled glass of Anchor or Cambodia Beer, both very good! Food was reasonable, I mostly ate Western-style breakfasts, and Indian dinners (what was in my area).  Most of the hotels in my price range (cheaper the better) didn't have elevators and I found my self usually on the upper floors (?) At my age stairs scare the sh*t out of me (help, I've fallen and am dead). 

While in Phnom Penh I did meet some very cool people, and the adventure was quite worth the extra day's spent.  On my second night at the Lone Star Saloon and Guesthouse things got quite interesting at the bar. Turns out as I got to the bar about 8pm the girls behind the bar are drinking shots of Jagermeister. So I ask Tony (owner/manager) down at the end of the bar "Someone's Birthday?  He said "No" and rolled his eyes. Turns out one of the gals doling out the shots is the "Permit holder" of the bar,  The Cambodian who is the owner of the legal permit for the bar, and probably gets a percentage of the profit without actually running the operation. So anyway she's there getting drunk, and exerting her influence. She has a problem with a couple of guys sitting next to me over the bill, she said one guy paid his tab, the other didn't. The first guy said I paid for both of us. I saw him put $40  in the bill thingy. So I told Tony I saw that he paid. (one person couldn't drink $40 worth of  $1.25 drafts by himself and walk). Long story short Tony and permit holder got in a contest over whether they paid, after trying to deal with the PMH who was drunk,  he threw his hand up and said: " I'm outta here".  That didn't end it :) She went outside and raised some hell, pushed someones scooter over,  then came back in and started throwing things, napkin holders then ashtrays, I moved to the way back of the bar to get out of ashtray range. The bar was pretty much empty at that point as no one wanted to get hit by a glass ashtray. She did finally calm down and actually bought me a beer before I hazily found my back upstairs to my room. Was definitely a highlight of my trip to Phnom Penh.  OK so now you know more about my Phnom Penh experience. But of course, I can't tell you everything😆