So we made it to Thailand, the last country on our great big adventure. We had a plan. To find great beaches and do nothing. It was time to rest properly and feel like we were actually having a holiday. We made it to Koh Chang first of all, another place we had been told about by various travellers we had met. It was fabulously quiet, if a little mosquito infested and wet. The monsoon rains were ever present during our stay but we had a great hut on the b...

We left Phnom Penh by bus and headed North West to Battambang. The plan was to get to Angkor to see the famous temples. For months we had been meeting travellers who had been there recounting amazing experiences. We took a motorbike tour in Battambang to see a temple even older than Angkor. It was a great afternoon on dusty roads both of us riding pillion on the same bike. The temple was old and in a poor state, high on a hill which had suffered heavy cannon...

Since our last postcard we have spent many lazy hours (make that days) on the beaches of Vietnam (waiting for Pete to get over bronchitus!) and then wandered the streets of Saigon, before taking a 3 day tour of the Mekong Delta on a variety of boats as we meandered into Cambodia. All very exotic and exciting. As we only have 5 more weeks, less now, it feels a bit more like a normal holiday i.e. one with a nearby end point, and so we are getting into the holi...

After a beautiful journey through the southern hilly country of China (unfortunately at the hands of a mad bus driver who seemed determined to overtake only on blind hairpin bends!) we crossed the border at night into Vietnam. We crossed over the mighty Red River into sweltering humidity and suddenly found ourselves in a strange border town in Vietnam. Contrary to the warnings we had been given of being swarmed by touts we actually had to roam the streets to fi...

Our China epic continues. We have now tried all 4 classes of train travel and can give our very conditional approval to most. The "hard sleeper" was our first experience and involved 48 triple bunks in the carriage and was not as noisy as we expected, the Chinese not being known for their volume control. We were in the middle bunks and despite a lack of head room actually managed to get a reasonable sleep in, plus converse in smiles and mime to the chinese couple...