Australia – Spot X - Time to test my skills on a surf board and receive my introduction to the surfer lifestyle! One of the main activities I was very keen to get involved with whilst in Oz was surfing so I booked myself into a surf camp called Mojo's at a secluded place called Spot X located on the East coast. On arrival it was immediately clear to see you needed to be a pretty cool surf dude or dudette to work here, needless to say I blended in a treat. After a quick tour of the camp site myself, Steffi and Anna (the two girls on my bus) were shown our accommodation for the next two nights, I think it's fair to say none of us were expecting what was presented to us, a ... read more

Australia – The Great Ocean Road and the Grampian Highlands – The twelve apostles, London Bridge and a random night where we shared our worst nightmare toilet scenarios!! Truly an Oz experience. Oh and not forgetting my first sightings of Koalas and Kangaroos. With all my tours booked it was time to start the first one, as the bus rocked up to my hostel at stupid o’clock in the morning I was the first on board and sadly for me feeling rough as hell. I had only been out for a couple of beers the night before but something was disagreeing with me. As we made our way to the next pick up point I was fighting my body not to throw up within the first 1km of the 260km ahead. Thankfully I held it together ... read more

Singapore – Possibly the most relaxed, easiest going and quietest city I’ve been to – Only one way to ensure I get to see the cities dark side I guess, that’s right I booked my accommodation slap bang in the middle of the most bizarre red light district I’ve ever stumbled across. As you will have hopefully seen from my last blog I had a very quick stay on arrival in Singapore before I went back to Malaysia, after Malaysia I headed back to Singapore for four days before my flight to Australia. Whilst in Singapore I stayed in a couple of hostels and a hotel and it was the first signs that things are starting to get more expensive, It’s fair to say everything here is in the region of two to three times more ... read more

Thailand - Bangkok - Christmas, New Year and a warm welcome to Bangkok for Gav! Where do I begin, this blog may run on a little bit and be slightly disjointed because the next ten days involved Bangkok twice so I’ve combined them into one blog, so my apologies in advance if you’re confused, but don’t worry so am I as you will read in a while. Maam and I returned to Bangkok from Kanchanaburi to celebrate Christmas, I think we were both more than happy with a relaxed quiet night with a couple of drinks, although having said that we did end up having these drinks in the notorious Soi Cowboy area, but there was good reason for this. I wanted to get a couple of photos to send to Gav to show him what ... read more

Cambodia – Phnom Penh – The sad reality of S-21 genocide museum and the killing fields. Cambodia proved to be very different from what I had imagined, admittedly I visited the two most developed cities but I was expecting to experience considerably more poverty and a stressful time moving around and sorting out reasonable accommodation. This proved not to be the case, it was actually very easy and all the accommodation was brilliant. Phnom Penh is much more developed than Siem Reap and far bigger, I knew very little about the city before arriving and my knowledge consisted of a very basic understanding about the Killing Fields and S-21 Genocide museum, but what I was about to discover was shocking. On arrival I headed straight to my hostel called the Mad Monkey, it was another great ... read more