SIHANOUKVILLEHmmm where do we start? Christmas in the sex trade centre of Cambodia, if not the world, we think?! We might have spent Christmas with Gary Glitter if he hadn't he been caught - not quite the type of celebrity we are looking to spot. Nevertheless Sihanoukville is a very beautiful beach resort on the coast of Cambodia, it's a great place despite being inhabited by a very suspect bunch of Anglo/French/Irish ex-pats (with the exception of Mick a...

PHNOM PENHAfter Siem Reap we take the bus down to Phnom Penh which is the capital and also the main place to learn about the horrific tragedies associated with Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime, so our mood is a little sombre on arrival. We only have a day and a half here as our itinerary is tight - the date is the 22nd December and we plan to spend Christmas at the beach - therefore Phnom Penh is going to have to be a bit of whistle-stop tour. We hire a tuk tuk...

CAMBODIA We resorted to taking a flight rather than doing the border crossing from Bangkok, as it is known as the "Boulevard of Broken Backsides" and takes up to 24 hours. We heard that you have to get off the bus and walk across the border with all your gear and then bribe the policemen to get into the country, we even heard a story of someone getting shot - all good fun but not really our thing, so we opted for the one hour flight instead with free fo...

THAILAND BANGKOK - part 1 (15 Dec - 18 Dec) We arrive in Bangkok at 5.30 am on the overnight bus, which does the usual trick of dropping us miles from anywhere so that we have to let the local transport make some cash out of us. However despite having the cash and being willing to pay we are unable to find a cab driver willing to take us into the City! We eventually persuade one to take us into town in his pimp-mobile but he will not put the meter on, so he names...

BACK AT THE BEACH - THAILAND Just a brief journal from the beautiful beaches of Thailand as we are obviously far too busy being very lazy again to write nice long journal entries just to make you lot jealous on a dark winter day at home in Blighty...We are currently in Kata, Phuket which is a fairly standard nice holiday resort (apart from all the working girls and a few lady boys) from where we visited the gorgeous island of Ko Phi Phi. We liked it so much ...