So it's my last day in Asia, which is very sad, and I thought I'd do the final update on my blog whilst I'm waiting to head to the airport. I've got quite mixed feelings about heading home, I'm sad to be leaving and that my 6 month holiday is coming to an end (and that I might have to actually make some kind of decision about what I want to do for the rest of my life) but I'm also very excited to see everybody again. I can't believe how long it's been since I la...

I thought I'd not really been up to much in the past week or so but now going to type this up I realise I've done loads. The cooking course I'd signed myself up to in Battambang was really good. I was the only one doing it (which apparently was quite usual) and it started with a trip round the market to buy the ingredients and to explain things such as why the fish are kept alive until they're sold (to keep them fresh in a place with no fridges) and what the lad...

I thought I'd better update this again before it had been far too long and I forgot it all! We moved on from Phnom Penh after bumming around for a couple more days sorting out visas and visiting temples and museums (and the post office where lots of monkeys were hanging around). On the saturday, we got up nice and early to catch a bus to a southern beach town called Sihanoukville. Four hours of dodgy cambodian carry-on type films and karaoke! But we managed to f...

This is going to be a long one... Nha Trang was a really nice place, although you did feel a bit like you could be in a beach resort in any touristy hot country. We ended up staying in a couple of dodgy places though, the first place gave you an electric shock if you tried to plug anything in and the second place was full of ants and smelt really damp. But we didn't spend much time in the rooms anyway, so it was fine. The first day we went to Thap Ba Hot Spring...

Hello! I think I'm going to try and keep this brief-ish for a number of reasons. Firstly, I feel like I've done quite a lot since I last posted, but I also think a lot of my sentances will end up going something along the lines of '...we had lunch at x, y or z and wondered round for a while before getting dinner at x, y or z'. I've been eating a lot! But we have been trying the local specialties, including 'white rose', a kind of seafood dumpling and cao lao, a ...