Getting in to Cambodia meant a long bus journey from Bangkok to the border of Cambodia. Here we had to get out of the bus and formally leave Thailand by having our visa stamped. Next we had to walk over a bridge in a place between Thailand and Cambodia known as ‘No-man’s Land’ – I Read More »
In this blog I am going to attempt to explain what happened to the people of Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime. While we were in Phnom Penh, we visited the Tuol Sleng Museum and the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek. When we arrived in Cambodia we were unsure whether it was appropriate to visit. Read More »
I arrived at my hostel at 2pm and knew that I only had 24 hours in BA so should make the most of it, despite feeling totally exhasuted! My hostel was in the city centre so i didn’t get time to chec out the cuter more characterful neighbourhoods but I diod a fairly good job Read More »
Unfortunately, Kent had to go into work on saturday. On nice not-rainy mornings, he likes to walk to work and since this morning was not only nice and not rainy, but downright sunny, I decided to tag along on his stroll. We walked a few blocks to the entrance of an enclosed area callled New Read More »
Since we’d had a late night partying the evening before, it was no surprise Kent and I didin’t wake up until after noon on Sunday. We took our time getting out of bed and watched a few episodes of Peep Show before really preparing for the day. Not that we had much to prepare for. Read More »
Since we’d had a late night partying the evening before, it was no surprise Kent and I didin’t wake up until after noon on Sunday. We took our time getting out of bed and watched a few episodes of Peep Show before really preparing for the day. Not that we had much to prepare for. Read More »
I went to Paris 2 month ago. The most interesting thing was cost of living which is higher than those of London. I was supprised when I bought just a can of coke, I spent money on buying that around 3 pounds in regional supermarket and the enterance fee of most museum is expensive. Nevertheless, Read More »
We booked an all in deal from Bangkok to Siem Reap for our first land border crossing of the trip as we were slightly anxious about it, especially as we’d heard a few stories of petty corruption on the Cambodia side and because we’d heard of people getting huge amounts of hassle once in Cambodia Read More »
After arriving in Phnom Penh we did a quick city tour and took in the sights of the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and Victory monument – then headed to the riverside for a beer – we found a better place to stay for the next evening and arranged a tuk-tuk to take us out of Read More »
After a smooth 14 hour trip, we arrived in Rome at 7:30. We checked into the hotel and immediately struck out on an adventure filled day….Colesseum, The Forum, Palentine Hill, Arch of Constantine, Piazza Venezia Monument to Victor Emanuel II, and Capital Hill. Now… after wine, lunch, wine, appertifs, tiramisu gellati, and more wine, we Read More »
