Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City 3rd - 7th December 2010 My journey to Vietnam was pretty interesting and started with an overnight bus journey from Siem Reap, Cambodia at 2am. It wasn't a sleeper coach, so got as much shut eye as I could whilst sitting up straight, which wasn't a lot but at least it was something. One thing I've learnt whilst travelling is how to sleep absolutely anywhere! Lol. We got to the Cambodia / Thailand border at 7am and all had to get ...

Cambodia 27th November - 3rd December 2010 This is a very long Blog entry and the part under Phnom Penh is quite distressing due to the details I've included from the genocides in Cambodia's recent history. You may want to grab yourself a coffee and a maybe even a tissue before you read it. Phnom Penh 27th - 29th November 2010 I had been chatting to Cara on email since leaving Koh Lanta and we decided to meet up for a few days in Cambodia.I was flying in from...

Bangkok 16th - 18th November & 23rd - 26th November 2010 It took 6 hours door to door to get from the tree house in Railey to the hostel in Bangkok which I didn't think was too bad all in all. It had entailed accosting a German guy who didn't speak a word of English into helping me lift my back pack down the wooden ladder from the tree house, a long boat ride, a taxi, a plane ride, 3 trains and a short walk, where I arrived at a complete oasis in the hot, b...

Koh Lanta 12th - 15th November 2010 I first met Cara in a shopping center in Patong. I was having my fish spa pedicure and she was enquiring about a massage on her knee which was swollen from an operation she'd recently had. I know this will sound strange to some of you, but a lot of you know I get odd feelings about things and they more often than not turn out to be true. Well I knew in the couple of words that we muttered to each other, that we would someho...

Phuket 6th - 9th November 2010 I stayed in Patong on Phuket island and was instantly immersed into the more commercial / seedier side of Thailand. Having said that, this was a good place to ease my way into Thailand life as it's still quite Westernised and the goings on in this place are intriguing and wondrous to say the least! Ping pong bar anyone?! Lol. Phuket is on the Andaman / west coast of Thailand and holds the countries most beautiful islands. I'd b...