After a busy day with everything seeming to go wrong we managed to sort everything out and 14 hours later arrived here in phnom penh... its very hot and very busy... we shall update the blog with the past week or so's happenings soon - but now its late and we're tired so just a quick one to say - New country and we're safe and happy. love and miss you all lots. [View Full Entry]

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Ok now we finally have the proper chance to update our blog - I believe the last proper update was written around the time of Miss Teen Thailand 2009... an exciting day all round... since then we have travelled on into Laos and have carried on having a fantastic time... from where we left off last time I’ll fill in all the main bits... From Chiang Mai we took a kinda ting to Lampang on some bus or other which took a while... It looked really close on the map, about 1cm away... When we arrived we held up a Sawngthaw [View Full Entry]

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Here in Laos the internet is very slow and quite often we will attempt to update the blog and it seems to vanish... When we get to a bigger city we will update you all with the goings on since the last blog up until now... We are having a lovely day today... I even managed to find a cake and a candle to celebrate Robin's birthday, (which I ended up presenting to him just after midnight as he was hunnnnngry.) Still missing you all lots... Will update properly soon... but for now... Happy Birthday Robin!!! xxx [View Full Entry]

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Forgot to add the most surreal thing about the shopping centre... Miss Teen Thailand is currently being hosted about 10 feet from us... they stand the talk they do a little twirl then sing - until they get buzzed off. The prize is a motorbike. It's great!!! x [View Full Entry]

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Just thought I'd add a quick entry... Robin and I are currently in a shopping plaza... which is all a bit surreal... having come online to waste a little time before we head off to the cinema... Something we decided would be nice to do as a treat. Trying to think back over what it is we've been doing since the last blog entry... nine days ago... we came back to Chiang Mai on Tuesday the 8th and have been enjoying the city... Mostly spending our days reading or searching for new books as well as indulging in hours of reading... [View Full Entry]

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Further to our previous entry, I have been reminde of two equally amusing incidents: The first occured as we ate out ant infested breakfast as Garden ket-hao in Chiang Rai. (We were still recovering, at this point from, the ruccus of orchestral music as we lay in that dubious place between consciousness and oblivion. Fortuantely for Lucy, she has not seen the original Wicker Man film and therefore did not make the utterly terrifying connection. She had not a clue what was going on as I quickly bolted the door.) Finishing my water-egg, i looked up to see a rather comical [View Full Entry]

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So we left Pai and got back to Chiang Mai spending a little too much in the night market. I bought some ace tee-shirts I have to say and lucy bought a lovely dress. Altogther we spent 1000baht give or take which isn't too bad considering all the pretty fairy lights in the myriad stalls guiding as astray... Now here comes a frustrated era in this Asiatic Odessy.... One I like to refer to as 'The Awkward Age'... Chinag Rai was in lights for me. I imagined it to be Chiang Mai with a more relaxed atmosphere and friendly locals gving [View Full Entry]

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Hello all... We are sat in an internet cafe in Chiang Mai - the rain has just stopped - a short but lovely burst! After a very odds nights sleep - where we went to bed at 9 - then woke again at midnight - and after sitting talking and reading decided we werent sleepy anymore... we ventured out amazed that it was so light at 4.30am - we went onto khao san road in search for breakfast and a route to chiang mai - we found a lovely fresh omlette with chives and rice... then bought a few snacky things [View Full Entry]

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Finally here! We made it. The flights were ok... I slept the majority on the time - ocassioanly waking to the smell of another curry... Robin struggled to sleep and by the time we arrived here in Bankok was absolutely shattered... On Cat's recommendation we got a taxi from the airport - a VERY scarey experience - where the taxis over took buses on the inside on a hard shoulder of a six lane motor way - but we got here to new joes guesthouse - dumped our bags and had a nice cold beer and a pad thai each.... we [View Full Entry]

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