It's been over two weeks since the last of the blog and we have spent that time on the beach in Ko Samui. We got the overnight train from Bangkok to the town of Surat Thani on Thailand's south east coast. The train journey was fairly comfortable as we had sleeper beds which were pretty good. We were however, around 5 hours late getting into Surat Thani due to some issues with the track overnight which we couldn't quite figure out. We then had to get the ferry...

Our bus from Siem Reap to Bangkok left just after 9am on Wednesday morning. With all that's happened in Thailand recently, the coach was almost empty with only 6 of us making the trip. This meant that we could spread out and we had a comfortable ride into Bangkok. Crossing the border between Cambodia and Thailand was a lot more straight forward than we feared and there was no issue with our 60 day visas. We arrived in Bangkok at around 5pm and quickly made ...

We left Phnom Penh on Wednesday bound for Siem Reap. Our bus was at 1.30pm but after arriving at the offices of the company we had booked with, we were put onto a minivan to go to another company's office to catch one of their buses. It seemed to take ages to get out of Phnom Penh, we aren't sure whether it was due to the size of the city or that we were driving around in circles. We eventually got out of Phnom Penh and after one stop and a bus ride that was a...

Since visiting the Royal Palace on Friday, we haven't done a great deal to write about in Phnom Penh. Saturday and Sunday were pretty much the same in that we went out for some lunch and for a walk along the riverfront before then grabbing some tea on each night. On Saturday night we decided to buy a bottle of Smirnoff vodka and have a good drink in the room. For anyone who knows me, they will know that vodka doesn't particularly agree with me but it went down...

We left Ho Chi Minh City bound for Phnom Penh at 6.30am on Wednesday morning. This meant getting up at the ridiculous time of 5.30am which is something we definitely aren't used to after having not worked for a year. We reached the Cambodian border at around 8.30am and after getting our passports stamped out of Vietnam we were into Cambodia within the hour. We had been asked to give our passports to the bus company worker when we boarded the bus with our money...