We've come to experience poverty in quite a few different places now. Each time I come across it again it's in a different context a different light. I knew India was a desparately poor country, part of the appeal and worry of coming here was just that. So I felt prepared, in as much as you could be prepared, of course its never quite how you imagine. We'd heard actual horror stories form other travelers about their times in India. Not exactly painting it in the...

There is a lot more to Cambodia than pain and suffering. We obviously haven't seen it all but I do feel like we've seen the essence of Cambodia. I used to think of Poverty as homeless people begging by day and sleeping in doorways by night. As I saw a little more of life I realised that it can mean very different things. A single parent family of four on minimum wage understands poverty just as well as the man on the street. But the poverty in Cambodia is very d...

I'm not sure about everyone else, I know I'm incredibly naive to most world affairs, but until 6 months ago I had barely heard of Cambodia, I certainly had not heard of its past. When we were staying in Sydney I found a book on the book exchange that was written by a woman who had lived in Cambodia when she was a child. I read this book, 'First They Killed My Father' by Loung Ung and was mortified. As I said I am so naive and I couldn't believe such atrocities co...

Once again I am incredibly behind the times, but its better than never! So after the bitter dissapointment that was Ko Phi Phi, we continued our Thailand tour to a place called Ko Samui. Ko Samui is another small island that has been infiltrated by the student masses, but luckily for us there is still peace and quite to be had. Dave had read about a boring rubbish quiet beach, so we went there! After walking for what seemed like hours down a dirt track, towrds t...

Ko Phi Phi is So Phoo Phoo Epectations are a funny thing. I am not entirely sure where they come from. Possibly from the media, films etc and sometimes from others recommendations. So even though expectations are seemingly pointless and almost never met, why do I never learn? Ko Phi Phi is my example. Before I left England and in fact before we even planned this trip, I had expectations, maybe you could even say 'dreams' of how travelling would be. Imagined idy...