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Published: October 5th 2011
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So 2011 has been an amazing year full of travel, new love, working towards goals and planning yet another holiday... The plans have changed several times over but its finally here... I dont have near enough money, but hey, thats part of the adventure.. expect to see some real budget travel along the way!
Where to this time you may ask?
We fly out (yes thats right WE... as in me and my wonderful gorgeous man Ben) on 9th October heading straight for 5 nights in Phuket, followed by a couple of nights in Bangkok... This is Benny's first trip to Thailand so I have lots of touristy stuff planned (some of which even I havent covered yet!)
Unfortunately Benny can only stay a week due to work so he flies home and I have a night in Bangkok before flying into Phnom Penh, Cambodia where I am meeting up with a workmate Danni for the rest of the trip... Danni and I met at work and after discovering a mutual love of travel, so I invited her to join me in Cambodia...
I am also planning on meeting up with my friend Gael who I used
to work with at Flinders, who happens to be in Phnom Penh at the same time. Gael generously spent a weekend cooking before holding a morning tea to help raise money for my charity CCT. She amazingly walked away with $217 which was a GREAT help!
After Phnom Penh, I am hoping to get to Kep, Kampot, and Sihanoukville before heading to Battambang to spend some time with Kai and the Cambodian Children's Trust Orphanage.. We managed to raise almost $2500 by running the City to Bay 12km race in September... A very big thank-you to everyone that donated and helped to raise money... Stay tuned for a very special blog on where your money has gone!! It was worth every painful step I took in that 12 km... An interesting fact: I have NEVER in my life ran more than 3km EVER.. so you can probably imagine how GREAT I felt at the end of the 12km!
Finally after a visit to Battambang, we head to Siem Reap for Danni to see the temples and for me to drink $1 Margaritas before heading back into Thailand...
We head straight to Phuket where I have plans to
meet up with another travel buddy, Phill. We met back in 2006 on the Trip Advisor Thailand forum and have been Tripadvisor/Facebook friends since.. Finally for the first time, we are going to be in the same place at the same time, so our last few days will be spent drinking Chang beers with Phill, shopping and a final relaxation... I think by this time I will be dying to get home to Benny (amazing how priorities change so fast).
Before I love and leave you all, let me just say that its not too late for you to make one last small donation to my charity... the website for donations is still open for a week or so... SO, if you love my blogs and would love to help me out please go to
Reety's Donation Page and make a small donation...
Stay tuned for some fun, adventures, new faces and places...
Reet xx
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Chris
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Have FUN!!
Hi Reet Sorry we didn't get to catch up before you left for your holiday. Have a great time, I will be hanging out to read your blogs xx