Matt Kezza

Ok so we thought we would bore you with one final blog. As its a year to the day that our travelling adventure began, and exactly 3 weeks that we have been home, we thought we would share some of our reflections. It just didn't seem right to end our travels still having a ball on the Perhentians as that wasn't the end. We both feel that we've got one more trip in us but for now we're concentrating on settling back into working life! (boring) So we left you back on the perfect Perhentians where we spent another couple of days just sunning and soaking up the oh so chilled atmosphere, before heading to the hustle and bustle of Kuala Lumpar. I was expecting big exciting things from KL as it's the city that shares ... read more

So Thailand... we arrived there feeling absolutely horrendous as our flu continued and we had to do a huge amount of travelling from Sapa up in the hill of Vietnam to Bangkok. To get there we had to catch a bus, an overnight sleeper train, a taxi, another taxi, a flight and then another taxi. About 30 odd hours later we arrived. Unfortunately for us we pretty much spent a week in bed dosed up with antibiotics and lots of rest. 1 week later our friends arrived! Laura, Jemma, Steph, Phil, Kat and John arrived to our pretty plush hotel for lots of catching up, lots of shopping, lots of buckets (literally a bucket of cocktail - predominantly Samsong, an alrightish Thai whisky with Red Bull and Coke) and lots of drunken fun out in the ... read more

So after the depressing and downbeat experience in Phnom Penh, we left Cambodia with heads full of complicated thoughts by bus heading to Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon to the locals. The journey was okay, we opted for the classy top of the range 'Mekong Express' and crossed the border into Vietnam without any problems. However, as soon as we stepped off the bus we were taken for a ride as we got ripped off by a taxi tout with a dodgey meter and even worse sense of direction! Oh well, another important lesson learned. Our hotel (Lac Vien) was lovely though and right in the heart of the action so it wasn't all doom and gloom. Saigon was fantastic. We had a really refreshing couple of days and even though it had all ... read more

It has been a pretty tough couple of days. We arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday at lunchtime after an interesting bus journey with some motor bikes and chickens - pretty regular customers on public transport in Cambodia. Before the bus door had even opened we had atleast 20 guys through the door shouting 'tuk tuk', 'tuk tuk'! After managing to scramble through the jungle of arms, hands, chickens, motorbikes, backpacks, fellow travellers and local passengers, we managed to find a Cambglish speaker who could get us to our hotel. It turned out our driver spoke very good English so we were talked into hiring him to be our driver for the following day. The afternoon was spent shopping til we were dropping (or dripping with sweat - nice!) at the fantastic Russian Market that was ... read more

Sorry about the uninteresting title but its too hot to think of anything clever! So we boarded our Jetstar plane bound for Cambodia and were slightly surprised when we realised there was only 30 passengers aboard, very surreal, if you ever fly on an airbus with only 30 passengers you will be in for a bit of a bumpy ride as there's no weight to the plane! I was gripping the arm rests several times! (I think I left indentations!) Anyway after arrival at our very swanky hotel (15 pound a night) we were told our room wasn't yet availalbe so we hired a tuk tuk (Basically a moped towing a carriage) with our driver for the day named Leang, an extremely smiley local. You can hire a driver and a tuk tuk for 8 hours ... read more

Ok so it's been a while and we've travelled a fair bit, Kerrie has warned me not to miss anything out as apparently I usually condense my blogs into a quick paragraph so I'm going to give it a proper go!! We left stunning Tasmania behind and boarded the ferry expecting a nice peaceful journey back to the mainland, however the 3 metre swells made for an interesting journey. Kerrie went rather green along with most of the other passengers! But it was great to walk like a drunk whilst being completley sober! Very funny.... After arriving back in Melbourne we drove as far as Albury/Wodonga on the Victoria/NSW border on our way to Canberra. This was a pretty uneventful stay but the town itself was quite nice. Next, the capital city (Not that you'd ... read more