Hello hello from Sri Lanka!We landed at Colombo airport about two and a half hours ago and so far we have pretty much just been in the bar... We managed to choose the worst possible time to visit Sri Lanka: it's a full moon festival tonight so everything shut a few hours ago (well apart from the temples, obviously). Hmm, yes well, never mind, there is a 24 hour bar right here in the airport so I'm sure we'll cop...

Yesterday was eventful. We left our guesthouse at 6:45am, got a taxi for 3 hours over the worst roads in the history of the world, ever with a maniacal driver with a death wish. He was clearly harbouring an unfulfilled childhood aspiration to become a rally car driver and had eventually settled on the next best thing-terrorising tourists at high speeds on severely potholed "roads". He overtook anything and everything, thumping his horn for all he was worth (most ...

Well, our five days in Cambodia has officially come to a close, We're getting a taxi tomorrow morning at 7am (providing we can find one) to the Poipet border with Thailand and heading back to Bangkok via train. Here's hoping that the road will be smoother in a taxi and take less than 8 hours... Cambodia has been amazing. It's absolutely beautiful here and the temples are completely stunning. The people are lovely and can't do enough for you and love to sit a...

Hey people, we have arrived in semi-reasonable condition in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The trip here was ridiculous. Ridiculously cheap, but ridiculously uncomfortable and l-o-n-g. From Khao San (Bangkok) we got a taxi to Hualamphong train station at 5:30am (after 3.5 hours sleep) to try to find a train leaving for the Cambodian border Aranya Prathet. Luckily there was one leaving at 5:55am so we jumped on that and endured 7 hours of the world's worst railway track. It...

Argh life!! This last 24 hours has been absolutely crazy... Getting used to being back in Thailand and trying to run around like crazy people sorting out last minute souvenirs, organising transport to the airport and getting our head around the fact that we're flying to Sri Lanka for 2 weeks. As if that wasn't enough we still couldn't get hold of my elusive uncle. We tried to hunt him down at work where we were informed that my oh-so-reliable uncle had gone ...