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...

Hi everybody... It's been an eventful few days, or not really as I have been bed-ridden for most of it. After going out on Sunday night (to a bowling alley just outside of town as there's a curfew of 11:30pm inside the town) I woke up the next day missing my handbag and feeling awful. I spent the rest of the day in bed getting progressively sicker and the next day, felt slightly better before feeling worse again towards the end of the day. Even today I'm still f...

Sabai dee, After 3 months in Thailand, I've fianlly moved on to another country, and have some brand spanking new stamps in my passport that I'm very proud of. Even though I'm still on the doorstep of Thailand (I can still see it just across the Mekong river), Laos already feels quite different. First of all, I can't get my head around the money situation, there are pretty much 3 currencies used in Laos. The kip is the official currency, but you cannot buy ...