It is hard not to experience life as a series of comparisons.
Everything always seems relative to something else, sometimes better and sometimes worse.
It is half the fun but it has its drawbacks.
Sometimes though, it just doesn't matter and that's the moment to strive for.
For the last couple of days we have stayed at Mushroom Point in Sihanoukville. It is 8km south of town on the brilliantly white Otres Beach, fringed with palms and overlooking a bay of islands. Fishing boats sway on the light swell and fish flit in the shallows. Mans and Irena have built a beautiful collection of circular, reed roofed, lime plaster huts around a patch of lush grass dotted with rough cut stepping stone pathways and banana trees. The space is dominated by a subtle mushroom motif in the sculpture, signs, menu and even the shape of the buildings.
An intoxicating fusion of world music floats in the air and the sea breeze cools the tiled communal area which is well equipped with power points, hammocks, floor pillows, good coffee and the most refreshing fruit shakes money can buy.
There may be a thousand places like this, up and down the Cambodian coast but right here, right now, this is so perfectly perfect, I would not change a thing.
Does Mushroom Point defy comparisons?
Probably not - but writing this now is the closest I can come to bottling this feeling.
And I wish I could share a glass of it with all of you.
Everything always seems relative to something else, sometimes better and sometimes worse.
It is half the fun but it has its drawbacks.
Sometimes though, it just doesn't matter and that's the moment to strive for.
For the last couple of days we have stayed at Mushroom Point in Sihanoukville. It is 8km south of town on the brilliantly white Otres Beach, fringed with palms and overlooking a bay of islands. Fishing boats sway on the light swell and fish flit in the shallows. Mans and Irena have built a beautiful collection of circular, reed roofed, lime plaster huts around a patch of lush grass dotted with rough cut stepping stone pathways and banana trees. The space is dominated by a subtle mushroom motif in the sculpture, signs, menu and even the shape of the buildings.
An intoxicating fusion of world music floats in the air and the sea breeze cools the tiled communal area which is well equipped with power points, hammocks, floor pillows, good coffee and the most refreshing fruit shakes money can buy.
There may be a thousand places like this, up and down the Cambodian coast but right here, right now, this is so perfectly perfect, I would not change a thing.
Does Mushroom Point defy comparisons?
Probably not - but writing this now is the closest I can come to bottling this feeling.
And I wish I could share a glass of it with all of you.
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