JBloodworth

Ok, So i'm sorry for not being in touch for a few weeks I apologise but an excuse comes with this apology: 1. I have entered Laos which has either had limited or just damn expensive internet. 2. I have been in Laos and therefore enjoying myself too much to be sat on a computer! But alas here I am in the capital city of Vientienne with a bit of time on my hands and some reasonably priced internet so here goes. The last time I blogged I guess I had jut talked about the dehydration mountain bike trip. Due to the fact I have a lot to write about i'm going to skip over my last week in Cambodia but if you must know I went to Kampot and ate some cheap (and delicious) crab, ... read more

Hi Everyone, Hopefully you are all enjoying the rain back home! So with my Thai visa about to expire (you only get 30 days upon entry!) I decided it was time to head to Thailands smaller, poorer and historically troubled neighbor Cambodia. Having recently read a biography of Pol Pot which went into the history of the Khymer rouge I didn't really know what to expect. I had heard Cambodia was extremely poor and wherever you went you had the heartache of street children and mine victims to contend with... I was about to get my first lesson in Cambodia. I decided to cross the border at the little used northern border with the humorous name of O Smach which conjured up images in my head of Irish drug addicts. As the border is little used ... read more

Good Day one and all, Greetings from a very hot southern Thailand (it's a face melting 36 degrees centigrade here!). I know once again I have been lazy with my blogging but seriously, it's because of all the fun I have been having. But I havn't forgotten about all of you back home and I hope this latest entry will provide a means of procrastination from what ever you are doing whether that be work, dissertations or generally just a break from the television for the lazier of my friends. As stated in my previous entry the intrepid explorer was about to head south on the not so intrepid backpakcer/lonely planet/banana pancake trail (for want of a better word). My first stop was to be Koh Tao, the smallest island in a three island archipeligo that ... read more

Greetings Everyone, I hope you are all well and looking forward to the onset of spring back in the western world! Hampi... What can I say about Hampi other than it is probably one of the best places I have EVER been to. Before I go into what I did there I will give you an insight into hat it is all about. So It used to be the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire up until 1565 when it was obliterated by the Muslim invaders (you see not only do you get light humor with my bog you also learn something). What is left now is a cohort of different builidings including temples, royal residency's and bazaars that wouldn't look out of place in ancient Greece. All of this in a landscape of boulders that looks ... read more

Good Day All, Greetings from Pondicherry; I have been moving around quite a bit in the last week so brace yourselves for a lot of action in a short space of time. As you may or may not know India is full of bloody temples and to be honest i'm sick of the things. Once I had seen the Golden Temple in Amritsar I thought I wouldn't bother going out of my way to see a temple in India again. However after some advice off fellow travelers and a consultation with the bible (lonely planet) I thought I should go and see the temples at Madurai. After an arduous bus journey from Kanyakumari I arrived in the largish city of Madurai which was actually my first big city in over a month and a half. The ... read more