Tuesday 1st April 2008

After our rather upsetting day yesterday, we thought we'd see some more 'normal' sights today and take it easy. We had some breakfast and then when we left our guest house, we bumped into our tuk-tuk driver from yesterday. He said he's take us wherever we wanted to go and we set off. We said we wanted to go visit the Royal Palace, but on the way we wanted to stop in a cookie shop we'd seen advertised.

Apparently, the Camory Premium Cookie Boutique (to give it's full name) is a charity shop, and a lot of the profits go to help the homeless - so we thought we'd do our bit. When we went in we found that we could try the cookies before we bought them - big mistake telling me that... I tried them all. We even dragged our driver in and got him to try some, as he'd never tried a cookie before. Me and Nikki bought some cookies for ourselves and then treated Suvann (the driver). We also bought some for his kids at home... it was for charity after all!

We left the cookie place and got dropped off at the Royal Palace. It was shut when we arrived so we went for a drink in a nearby bar, where we ate our delicious cookies. When the Palace finally opened we couldn't get in anyway because we were wearing inappropriate clothes, so we took some pictures from the outside and then walked on. Our next stop was the Russian Market where we spent the rest of the afternoon looking around.

This evening we got our driver to take us back down to the river, and to a restaurant we'd read about, called FRIENDS. This is also a charity organisation - and all the staff are young people who are poor or have come from the streets etc. It's a tapas bar and the food was AMAZING! We ordered loads (it was for charity after all) and ended up leaving very happy.

Man, all this charity work is filling!