Hi everyone! Hope you're all well. Thanks for all of your emails and blog messages and text messages (and Jo and Molly, thanks for the lovely voicemail!). We are in New Zealand at the moment, in Auckland. We arrived on Sunday (27th) and are picking up our campervan today. I'm just telling you this as I think we may have confused everyone with where we are at the moment seeing as though we're so behind with our blog updates. We have already spent our 6 weeks in A...

Hi everyone, hope all is well. Before I crack on, can you do me a small favour - We think we might be missing a blog update from Cambodia - if you cannot see Belle's accounts of Phnom Penh (including our visit to the killing felds) please can you let us know and we'll re-post. Cheers Right then, on with the story: So with my metaphorical 'I'm a qualified scuba diver' cap, badge, t-shirt and rosette emblazoned on an already inflated head and chest, it ...

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 ...