Day 34: 12/7/13 Happy birthday Mam- hope you have had a good day! We had to be ready for 8 today to go to the homestay. We could only bring a small bag with us and then we had to leave the rest at the hotel. I had a bit of work trying to fit everything into the rucksack because there's a few things I usually have in my hand luggage. It'll be difficult enough to close the bag in two weeks time I'd say- there'll be a lot of things getting the chop! There were a few...

Day 33: 11/7/13 I woke around 5:30 this morning with stomach cramps and some diarrhoea. I was in and out of the bathroom for at least two hours. I felt like I needed to get sick but nothing would come up even though there shoul have been plenty of food and drink in there! I had drank a good few beers but I've never woken up to get sick with drink. At 8am it was time to take my malaria tablet which can give you pains in your stomach, which means you have to eat. I...

Day 32: 10/7/13 Today we headed for Vietnam. Two vans (wans) picked us up at the hotel at 8am and brought us to the bus station. We got a bus from the station then that was bringing us all the way to Ho Chi Minh City. It was the same company as the bus we got in Phnom Penh and had for the home stay. So it's a private bus really, but there were other passengers on this bus, not just our group. We gave all our passports at the start to a man with the bus company- n...

Day 31: 9/7/13 We were up early to have breakfast in the hotel at around 6:30. We had to be ready to leave then at 7:30. We were going on a public bus back to Pnomh Penh. It collected us at the hotel though, then had another stop in the town and another one at the bus station. It was 8:30 before we left Sihanoukville properly. We had seats 1-17 in the front of the bus again, but this time the bus wasn't full so we could spread out a bit. I expected public buses t...

Day 30: 8/7/13 Today was a free day which was needed! For once, breakfast was included so we got up for it at nine and lots of others seemed to be there too. Breakfast was a strange concoction of toast, pineapple, rice and noodles. They had some strange things that we tried like rice cakes and rice porridge. The rice cakes were balls of mush really and tasted oniony. There was a spicy sauce to put over them and that made them taste better. The rice porridge was s...