OK so we left Thailand by bus to travel to Malaysia, over the border to a place called Penang, the driver decided to play thai karaoke at the max volume for 6 hours solid. The bus arrived at the border town in the middle of the night and the travel agent had told us we could crash in the lobby of a hotel, when we got a tuk tuk to the bus office/hotel - it was a brothel and they wouldnt let us crash there, so we sat outside on the street, however, there were rats ...

We arrived to the backpacker district of bangkok, khao san road at nyt, and didnt leave for 4 days! there was 2 much 2 do, 2 many things to buy, foods to try and plus it was Christmas, we checked into a posh hotel (by our standards - 25 quid a nyt) and decorated a green light in our room like a xmas tree! we bought each other little presents and wrapped them in newspaper. on xmas eve, we put on our santa hats and danced in the streets outside, drinking beers and ...

....we headed strayt to the backpacker district on the lake, spent an even more horrific day at s21 the genocide prison/museum, where the walls and floors are still covered in blood after being a torture camp for years. and the killing fields where there are more bones than you could imagine. so to cheer ourselves up we had a "happy herb" pizza! thats right HAPPY HERB! which after taking a rather long time to take effect turned out to be absolutely hillarious...

...after the most stressful journey so far from hongkong back through china to the north of vietnam, i had the most incredible couple of weeks in my favourite country to date. we drove into the capital, hanoi after being royally ripped off by the border taxi department, who instead of taking us to the local bus stop as requested drove us to the middle of nowhere and called a bus to come and pick us up, of course the taxi guys buddy charged us 6 x the price of the...

so i am in my hostel in hong kong after an incredible few weeks touring china, we have arranged our transport to Vietnam today and we are leaving soon before the city steals all my money, like some A-hole stole my bra from the laundry today!anyway so in chronological order the highlights of the last 3 weeks. after finally settling into the humid, poor & culturally challenging India we flew into Beijing - which may as well have been london, there are on av...