Today I was travelling down from Siem Reap down to Cambodias capital Phnom Penh. It definitely made for interesting viewing that's for sure..

So here is what I witnessed on my 7 hour bus journey. First up, Tarmac hasn't made it from the western world yet. They are still rocking the mud tracks, not all that successfully. Especially not when there are floods as bad as they are here right now. The only way I can describe these floods would be if you think of the worst flood in a third world country and then well you're pretty much there. The amount of water was just insane. You couldn't tell where the fields and road started. The locals where still trying to work on their land and it was up to the waists on grown men.. That's how high these waters were. You couldn't help but feel bad as you get to see it, drive through it and then don't have to see it or deal with it again..

They live in wooden houses that are on stilts. Handy for the flood situation but hardly the safest if there was to ever be a gust of wind. Like how do people live like this? These wooden rooms have nothing, their whole family will be in this room and there isn't a tv or a kitchen or anything we don't even give a second thought about.. I mean as soon as there is a break on Jeremy Kyle, I go to the fridge, open, close, go back. You would want to hope you had a decent family or life wouldn't be fun! I mean there doesn't seem to be schools or work for anyone so I'm still confused as to how they pay for things? They sell bananas on the side of the roads where tourist travelling buses stop but none of us want bananas, we just need the toilet so how do they live? Unless all they eat is what they grow and they swap rice for clothes and things? It could happen!

You can really see how poor a country Cambodia is just by watching. The massive difference between this third world country and us is that Cambodian people are happy. They are laughing and joking and they have nothing. All we do is moan when we have so much, we don't even realise how lucky we are!

I mean I adore my iPhone. I take it everywhere with me. Even to the toilet (I'm not ashamed you all do it!). Here, on the side of the street there is a mobile phone shop selling Nokias. The phone I had when I was 11. Now that was 12 years ago and to them that is the thing to have. It just makes me appreciate my phone even more and now it really never leaves my side.

Like you see all this on tv and you feel bad for a moment but it's to easy to forget how good we all have it.. So be grateful people!!