Cambodia: Kampot and Kep
With our first week done at work my new friend Anne and I thought it would be great to hit the beach again so we headed down to Kampot, a small provincial town on the south [...]
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Cambodia: Koh Rong Samloem
So I have arrived in Cambodia, my home now until the end of January. It seems so much more westernised than I remember – from the Burger King and Costa Coffee in the [...]
Laos: Vientiane
On my last night in Luang Prabang I went to the Bun Awk Phansa festival, before flying to Vientiane the next day. The distance between cities isn’t even that big but [...]
Laos: Luang Prabang
Laos is quiet – very quiet! The whole country is slightly smaller than the UK but has a population of 6.5 million, so everyone is quite spread out. It’s also the [...]
Goodbye Thailand – hello Laos!
I finished off my time in Thailand with a fantastic day at the Elephant Nature Park in the Mae Taeng Valley. The park is run by hippie-vegetarian lady Lek, who loves [...]
Chiang Mai Cookery School
The last few days I’ve been at cookery school in Chiang Mai. The school is one of the best in Chiang Mai, just outside the city, and I stayed at Sompon Nabnian’s [...]
Central Thailand: Ayutthaya to Sukhothai
Last Saturday was my last day with Donna in Bangkok and we headed out of the city in her car to the ruins of the old city at Ayutthaya, about 2 hours away. Ayutthaya used to [...]
Thailand: I’ve arrived!
So after months of talking about it, I’ve arrived and the adventure has begun in Bangkok. After a hellish flight with Norwegian Air (don’t ever fly with them!) I [...]
