Hi Everyone :-) Hope everything is good back at home? And no more nail bombs in Exeter?? How weird! Sorry we havn't blogged for a while - we are in Cambodia already but will have to backdate due to lack of internet action lately! (Also thats why you havn't had any emails guys, sorry). We will do the Cambodia blog soon as well now we are back in some kind of civilisation. Anyway... from Pakse in Central Laos we headed south to Champasak to get a taster for things to come at Angkor. Our journey there was a real experience - we were loaded into a full sawangtaew (truck with two benches either side and one squashed in the middle!). It was full of locals, a girl called Naomi from New Orleans, various things like about ... read more

Hi Everyone, Hope everything is going great back at home? Sorry we havn't blogged for a while (apart from the mini Burma blog). We left the last blog in Thailand so will carry on from there... From Chiang Mai we went onto Chiang Rai which is about a 3hour coach ride north so the scenery changed from flat to bumpy mountains. We decided to walk out to our guesthouse (Akha River Lodge) but ended up walking around for about an hour trying to find it in the dark! Things have changed slightly since Lonely Planet map was drawn and there is a huge new road in the process of being built (right alongside our Guesthouse!) The room was ok bu the shower didn't turn off at all and all of the staff were virtually comatosed, not ... read more

Hello Everyone! Be warned this is one long blog so grab a cup of tea (or beer)!!! Well its been an eventfull couple of weeks here in Thailand so will try and squeeze it all in here with a load of pictures and maybe even a video (now that Ive worked out how to get them on here!) Secondly hello to everyone who is receiving this for the first time, there were a fair few people we had forgetten to add at the beginning as this was intended as a noticeboard to keep the two mothers sane while we were away! So welcome on board and to catch up with everything weve posted so far go to www.travelblog.org/bloggers/deanandsarah So we last blogged on our way to the airport in Sri Lanka, even though we uploaded it ... read more

Hello from Sri Lanka :-) Thank you all for the emails/messages, missing you all! First of all... Dean needs to get something off his chest! WALES! AGAIN....GLORIOUS WALES! Needless to say he is pretty chuffed with the result of the grand slam/6 nations! He say's Shane Williams is a legend, bring on the Aussies.... Right, anyway :-) Got into Sri Lanka just over a week ago. Started our journey in Negombo as we avoided Colombo partly because of the trouble and partly because I have had enough of the city scene. Our first night and we had rain, not just a bit of rain, but big fat tropical rain! So British weather suddenly doesn't seem so bad! Doesn't help that we have only come prepared for warmer climates! Although Silver Sands, our hotel, was cheap and ... read more

Hello everyone Hope you are all ok and eveything is good back at home? One line from Dean before we start the blog-'Come on Wales' (against Italy tomorrow). Needless to say he was chuffed Wales beat England in Twickenham! (It had to happen 1 day I suppose)! Anyway... sorry we havn't blogged for a little while-think we last updated you when we were in Gokarna so we will start from there, even though it seems like ages and ages ago! Gokarna was very interesting (and i finally got over my horrible cold). It was a real mixed bag-full of long term tourists and hippy types but also very spiritual and genuanily Indian at the same time (loads of monks ran past with a body on a stretcher for a funeral procession)! We stayed centrally for a ... read more