What do you do in a town where there's nothing to do? Rent motorbikes and set off on an adventure, that's what! Hiring motorbikes was the highlight of our visit to Battambang; our happy band of 6 meant we had the perfect number and we headed off into the unknown with me on the back of Dan's bike acting as backseat map-reader. None of us wanted to follow any specific route so we set off with some poorly copied maps, a lot of enthusiasm and no real clue of where w...

Battambang - the third town in a row I've been to which no-one knows how to pronounce. I'd heard about a boat trip from Siem Reap to Battambang which sounded like an intresting way to see the country, so after talking Cords, Ben and Ambika into it we set off at the crack of dawn, loaded down with snacks and desperately trying not to drink any water (the toilet on board was a hole in the floor of the boat). Our fellow shipmates were a motley crue of locals (I'm...