Siem Reap….. Sounds like: Motorbikes, Kids playing, Sellers shouting 'Laaaddyyy', Drivers shouting 'tuk tuk', Chickens, Laughter, Chanting monks, Muffled speakers playing wedding and funeral music which lasts for 3 days , Squeaky horn of the rubbish collector. Looks like: Smiles, Dust, Traffic, Relaxed, Organised mess, Markets, Beauty Smells like: Fish sauce, Anchor beer, Cigarettes, Street food, Sweat , Dust, Hot corn, Pancakes, Burning rubbish, Tiger b...

So for the last three days I've had plently of time to relax and do nothing before going back to teach at ABC's. I then suddenly hit a huge brick wall. My plan was to spend the whole month of June in Indonesia with Sierra, Rosie and Jewel; go to the Gilis and around Bali, then fly back to Siem Reap. The cost of the return flight was excellent so it would work in well. Trouble is, I also want to go to Laos. If I did that too then I wouldn't make it back in time...

My first day back and I still can't wipe the huge smile away. Each child, they are still how I remember they were a month ago, all smiling, and there are now new faces too. It's the start of the new school year so the children have been moved into different levels although some have stayed in the same as 'last year'. Riding through the school gate seeing Tammy take assembly was just amazing-it was like I had never left; hugging the teachers to say hello and ask...

As soon as I opened my eyes at the bus stop on Koh San Road and looked out the window a tuk tuk driver was waving me down….how could I forget they would be pestering! It was quite a treck to our hotel so we decided a taxi would be the best way - maybe we were wrong; it took one stop to ask another taxi driver plus twenty times repeating the name of the hotel to get there (but at least we did get there I guess). It was our second time in Bangkok and because on ...

I'm sat on a day bus that's going to Bangkok - at least I hope it is. Will's on my right, legs forced to the aisle through lack of space while I'm bobbing up and down due to the bumps in the road - it really is taking some hand-eye co-ordination to write this! To be fair it isn't half as bad as my night bus experience - it won't lead to taking sleeping pills put it that way! I did have a lovely packet of oreos to munch on the way, however I stupidly left the pack...