We left Bangkok at 8pm on an overnight bus headed for Phuket (amongst other places) and although Stu got his favourite seat at the front on the top deck, this journey was not to be the stuff that dreams are made of. We had expected a sleeper bus like the one we got from Hanoi to Dong Ha, but no amount of plastering the phrases "V.I.P." or "luxury" over the sides was going to make it any better than what it actually was; a very average double-d...

So after a couple of months of pretty hardcore 'travelling' (we counted that we'd stayed in around 40 different hostels, boats, tents, trains and buses) it was time for life to get a bit easier by visiting a few of South East Asia's best beaches in Thailand, and generally see what the fuss is all about! Before that however we had to travel back from Siem Reap to Bangkok [to catch the overnight bus to Phuket] in which one decision had to be made; do we go by bus o...

We left Phnom Penh on the early morning ferry to travel up the Tonle Sap river to our next destination, Siem Reap. The ferry resembled a high speed canal boat which had the added excitement of our seats being, well no seats at all, and not in the cabin for that matter - we were to endure the four hour journey on the roof. No problem!! Temporary excitement (as we taxied out of the harbor) turned into wide-eyed terror as our captain cranked up the speed leaving us ...

Hello everyone. Hope you're all OK. Thanks once again for all of your messages - they really are appreciated. Sorry we're so behind on the blogs - we will hopefully have a bit more time next week so should be able to get up to date finally. We're in Australia at the moment, as you know, just about to start a sailing trip around the Whitsundays. Anyway, onto the task in hand, Phnom Penh... After a very interesting time in Vietnam it was time to move onto c...

Hi everyone! Happy New Year! And as Stu said, thanks so much for all the xmas and NY messages, presents, etc.... x By this point, we are package-toured-out! We're feeling a bit brave (or stupid!) and have decided that instead of booking a 3 day/2 night trip through the Mekong Delta into Cambodia, even though the consensus is that this is a much easier and cheaper way of doing the border crossing, we're going to go it alone. And this is what happened...... ...