The only flight from Thailand to the Philippines happens to leave Bangkok just after midnight. To get to Cebu City requires an early morning three hour stop over in Manilla, the capital. So after a long and sleepless flight, we couldn't have been happier to see our mate, Jase, waiting for us at the airport. We arrived only two days before the wedding, so spent them in preparation for the big day. We were immediately acquainted with all of Jase and Sam's best mat...

After ten days in Bangkok in search of all the western comforts that we missed in the Cambodian village, we're sure that we couldn't have found a starker contrast if we'd tried. Bangkok was commercial, polluted and flooded with tourists from all over the globe. A world away from our already missed village; simple living, leafy green, peaceful, friendly and local. Thai people are obviously far more used to foreigners than their Khmer neighbours, and we missed the...

Saying goodbye to our quiet, simple and relatively untainted village was difficult. Although we were tempted to stay longer, we felt that the timing was right and that we had put in a pretty good effort over the past three months. Our decision to leave was made easier by an invitation to our friends wedding in the Philippines! So after a few tears, beers and parting gifts, we're now riding away in another squishy share taxi. However, partly to lighten the load, ...

Having just left the capital, we are on the way back to the village again! We have just managed to convince an Argentinian guy to hop of the bus and visit Chi Phat, the quiet little village nearby. The same organisation that we are working for runs an ecotourism project in Chi Phat, where tourists can do a home stay and hire local guides for mountain biking and hiking. He was after a more local experience so we thought he'd like it. Hopefully we didn't lead him a...

We're not sure whether it was the salad in Koh Kong City, the super-rich banana custard with honey at the rainbow lodge, or the anti-malarial tablets that we've been taking since arriving in Cambodia, but something has upset Aidan's appetite. It started as nasty indigestion and developed into an inability to swallow, so Jess has dragged us away from the hammocks and we are now waiting for a bus to the capital. It's only been a few days since we arrived back in t...