Hello Yesterday we where in Phonm Penn and we took in the main sights which were the S21 genocidal musuem and the killing fields. S21, before the Khmer Rouge revolution in 1975, was a high school. After the revolution the school was changed into a prison where people where taken to be "re-educated". In reality they where tortured for days, sometimes even weeks and made to confess to their supposed anti-revolutionary crimes. During the four years of...

I'm writing to tell you about my near death experience with a spider. It all happened on our bus journey between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. We'd made a stop at a little market place, where young children come to your bus window attempting to sell you their bread/ fruit/ deep fried grasshoppers. I'd opened our window so that Dean could haggle the price of pineapple with a ten year old. Then I spotted her...the girl with the tarantula. I gave a little yelp and ...