I arrived in Brisbane at 1:30am to a very wet and windy welcome as we had just missed the cyclone phew!! Although I wasnt booked into the hostel into 3pm I decided to proceed anyway and take a chance in getting a bed for the night, I was staying in Fortitude Valley which I was told was the clubbing district of Brisbane which soon became apparent with loads of bars and clubs pumping music into the early hours unfortunately for me they stopped letting people in at ...

After an amazing few days in Siem Reap it was time to board my 7 hour VIP bus to Phnom Penh (VIP meaning wifi on board and air con woohoo) the first night I was staying in a different hostel to the rest of my trip so after checking in I took a walk to the next hostel I was going to be staying in so I knew where I was going and headed straight to the Mad Monkey bar. To my surprise when I walked in I saw Carl, Hayley and Jay who I met in Siem Reap as they were ther...

I arrived in Siam Reap to blistering heat apparently it was the hottest day so far at 35 degrees quite a difference from the last couple of weeks and got into my taxi to take me to my hostel Mad Monkey!! After checking in and putting my stuff in my room I headed straight to the rooftop bar for my welcome drink and set about making some new people. That night I went for dinner with some people I had met - Aj, Kelsey, Ross, Jake, Dean and Darren - where I tried my ...

That night Steve and I met the rest of the group for our upcoming tour which included a few more Ozzies one of which was my room mate Dee, a group of Scandies, a German, an American and a couple from Korea along with our tour guide Omar. After the usual introductions we headed off to a local restaurant to eat as a lot of people had flown in that day most people went swiftly off to bed however from that night on Steve, Dee and myself were to become thick as thieve...

So I arrived in Kota Kinabalu - Borneo woohoo!! Departing the plane to find Bronwen at the other end awaiting my arrival was fab and we quickly found a cab and headed to our hostel for the next couple of days. After dropping our bags off we headed off to find the 'backpacker' scene in other words bars, we strolled along the waterfront and past some exciting night markets serving loads of seafood until we found an Irish bar and several others along the front. Suff...