Went for yet another traditional dish at dinner last night...Good old ham pizza! The lunches may not be to my liking but atleast i know that i can get a good old english meal for dinner! Before we went for dinner we went to the night market which is amazing. Lots of little stalls selling all sorts so i think there will be lots of pressies coming from there cause it's not to expensive either..he he. There was a gorgeous little outside round bar there too where we all had a drink or two. The restaurant was nice too and it [View Full Entry]

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Matty letting of some steam!! [View Full Entry]

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So I of course arrive in Cambodia with a bang, we took a surprisingly comfortable bus journey from Saigon to Phnom Penh, we had leg room and everything. I may as well of been the president on air force one with all this luxury. The bus took 6 hours including the border crossing where we were spoonfed across immigration, they wouldn't even let us fill out any paperwork, even when it was just asking for our name, I know that my brain has not not been at all taxed for about a year now but even i could of managed to [View Full Entry]

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Simply said, Cambodia ticked all my boxes, flicked all my switches and pushed all my buttons. OK So I say it everytime, each country beats the last etc etc, but Cambodia just had it all, friendly people, beautiful sights, heart wrenching history, great food and good times had along the way. The fact that Cambodian people are so unfailingly genuine and kind after all they have been through just blew my mind. But in order to understand them, and indeed this country I need to tell you a short history lesson. Now History was never my favourite subject at school (mainly [View Full Entry]

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Just finished my second day at Angeli House Project. 9am-4pm is long enough at home but in this heat is even harder. We start the morning with a workshop for mixed ages and this morning we tried to teach them how to tell the time in English. Elisa (The other volunteer there from Germany) drew a big clock on the whiteboard and explained all the different parts and we then tried to get them to make a clock themselves. We originally wanted to make them with split pins but we couldn't find them in a shop anywhere. It's very strange, shops [View Full Entry]

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greetings from cambodia. on thursday we made the short journey from don det to the border (where i nearly left my guitar in laos) and then a longish journey to a small town called kratie for the night. the next day we travelled to the town of siem reap. the main attraction here is an area to the north of the town called angkor. it used to be the capital of the old khmer empire centuries ago, it's 400 square miles in area with loads of indiana jones type ancient temples dotted around it. it looks really cool and the several [View Full Entry]

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As i crossed the boarder into cambodia it becomes obvious from the landscape and the peole outside their dwellings that the poverty in cambodia is greater then the other countries in south east asia, on the boat crossing the Mekong there were gangs of limbless child beggars, out of principle i never give beggars money but is was heart breaking. Much of the poverty is due to the catastrophic rule of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970's when an estimated 2,000,000 people died. the cambodians also look different to their neighbors in thialand, loas and Vietnam, they are much darker [View Full Entry]

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ALL NEW: HERE IS THE [url=http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=101638699364012893538.00044c4767ec270badbbc&z=0]MAP OF MY TRIP!!! EN FRANCAIS PLUS BAS MANY MANY MORE PHOTOS HERE And this has nothing to do with the fact that I've lost my compass and watch, which I really miss by the way. Actually, a note on war casualties so far: watch, compass, boxer shorts, tank top, sexy strapless top (don't get too excited, it was "lost" by a laundry service!), and calculator. N [View Full Entry]

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Notre dernière destination a aussi été l'endroit le plus troublant qui m'a été donné de voir dans ma vie. Phnom Penh, capitale du Cambodge, en est aussi le reflet de son passé désolant et de son futur incertain. Malgré ses deux milions d'habitants, la ville a un caractère très rural. Éloignez vous à 5 kilometres du centre-ville et c'est tout comme être en campagne. Plus près du centre, des immeubles en décrépitude entourent des quartiers domicilaires entourés de barricades. Il ne semble y avoir que deux classes sociales: les riches et les pauvres. Les mandiants, souvent des amputés victimes de [View Full Entry]

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Well I made it in one piece just about and I know it's taken me ages to get on here so sorry everyone. The first 10 hour flight was very uncomfortable and very long. I was sat next to a small boy of about 5 or so which actually turned out to be a benefit. He ended up crawling all over his mum while I took advantage of the extra space and spare pillow! I didn't sleep on the plane journeys so was very tired when I got here. The second 4 hour flight however was a bit better. I randomly [View Full Entry]

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