The 3-hour bus journey from Pattaya to Bangkok was ok. That said, it would have been better had they not shown a Chinese film with Thai subtitles. It’s all a bit strange watching a film that you don’t understand that appeared to be based on a love story, which involved gambling and a number of gory murders with blood flying in all directions.....a bit of an odd film to show to a crowd of bus passengers at midday!!! Fortunately, the film was shorter than the j...

So, it's time for us to share another instalment of our travel blog, which is now becoming really problematic as the laptop keeps going wrong. I am surprised that Mark hasn't thrown the computer out of the window yet as he gets more and more frustrated with the laptop each day!! So moving on to the more interesting part of this write-up....... After five different modes of transport and 12 hours of travelling, we finally reached Pattaya Beach, Thailand at 7...

We certainly had an interesting journey by minibus to Kep, Cambodia.We were picked up from our hotel with a some tourists already sitting on the minibus.We continued to collect a few more tourists on our way through Sihanoukville town until we had the full 14 people on board. So, we thought that was it. But no....there were more .....the driver proceeded to squeeze on 4 more tourists somehow. He asked everyone on each row of the minibus to shift up so instead of ...

We got to Sihanoukville with high hopes as this has now become the country's premier beach resort. The fact is that it is still work in progress with a fair bit of building work going on. The roads were a bit hit and miss too with a mix of completed and unmade roads, especially connecting one of the roads with Serendipity beach. We arrived to the bus depot, which is about 3km from the main beach, as it was just starting to get dark. As ever, the tuk-tuk and taxi...

We couldn’t leave Kratie quick enough. The town had nothing much to offer except for sightings of the fresh water Irrawaddy dolphins that swim in the Mekong River. We walked around the town and found it to be dirty and offering little for tourists. It therefore wasn’t difficult to get up early, pack our rucksacks and be ready to jump in the taxi that was organised by Chhonn (from ActionAid) for 11am. It turns out that it was much better than some of the taxi ...