Back in the UK after a year of travel, I am ready to take the lessons I have learnt and apply them to our life here. I have seen Bali’s sea full of plastic, wildlife struggling due to human choices in Sumatra and very basic lifestyles almost everywhere we went. Read more…
We had been home only once over the past year for a quick stop in between South America and Asia. It was a fast paced week of drinks, invitations and catch ups and it was fantastic. Now, we were heading back again and were so excited to get home again, Read more…
Koh Tao or Ko Tao? I am not sure because it is written as both. I should have asked a local, but didn’t. This is the island famed for cheap diving certification. Once you arrive, you are definitely spoilt for choice with dive centres and I found it really difficult Read more…
[A letter to Frank Turner after I found his book in a hostel exchange. I wanted him to know how much I LOVED it, so I wrote to him. He wrote back!] Dear Frank, I love music, I love travel and I love writing. So, when I came across Read more…
I love a circus, but was sceptical about the one in Battambang. Big dance or song shows are often such tourist traps in Asia and I was sure this was going to be the same kind of thing. There’s not that much to do in Battambang though, so we bought Read more…
We made our way to Ica, a little further South Peru, about a week later. From here we visited the Ballestas Islands. These are a set of islands claiming to be the ‘poor man’s Galapagos’ and although we saw lovely little Humbolt penguins and sealions, they were not as impressive Read more…
Getting to Kampot took about three hours from Phnom Penh – although that depends on how long it takes you to get through the capital’s traffic! The bus did it’s usual rest stop, passed through Kep and was soon in Kampot. We got off in a very quiet town. You Read more…
Coming from the countryside of Kasi, we were delighted to be on a local bus, rather than the usual Laos touristy ones. That is until we pulled up at a local market right in line with a stall which had captured some kind of poor racoon which was strung up Read more…
Kratie was full of very Cambodian experiences. We went on a minibus, which is the equivalent of a South American colectivo; people ring the driver en route to be picked up, or they stand on the side of the road and flag it down. It stops constantly to pick up Read more…
We came in to Phnom Penh from Vietnam, and the Vietnam/Cambodia crossing was the easiest border we have had. We saw no officials, no one even compared us to our passports… Instead, the bus driver collected everyone’s visa forms and went off for the stamps while we went to a Read more…