We flew from Siem Reap on Easter Sunday. James skipped breakfast at the hotel in anticipation of the chocolate he was getting at the airport. I wasn't so sure Siem Reap airport would have chocolate, but James' confidence was well founded as there was a entire shop full of every type you could want from Lindt to Toblerone to Cadburys. There were no Easter eggs, but that didn't matter as we found some comfy chairs and tucked into the feast. There was also live rugb...

Slightly scary but great fun elephant tekking in Koh Samui

It is our last full day in Siem Reap, Cambodia and we haven't seen the temples at Angkor Wat yet! Given that is the reason why 99.99% of tourists come here then we thought we had better go. We booked the tour over dinner last night with Sinn. We decided to do the main Angkor Wat temple at 8.30 in the morning and then start again at 3pm to see the Ta Phrom (Tomb Raider) temple and the sunset at Bakheng. We had a driver and a tour guide pick us up from the hotel o...

We are really up against it to get the house finished today. Sinn has to build the stairs and we have a lot of walls to finish and out in place. James is helping the father to put palm leaves onto the gable ends whilst Thali, Izzi and I get to work on finishing off the biggest wall. Izzi stands on a nail in the first 5 minutes so goes to get some treatment whilst Thali and I carry on with fitting the palm leaves. Sinn is working on the stairs and James is giving ...

As we got outof Sinn's van we were greeted by all the children with hugs and smiles, even more than Tuesday and Wednesday as we had been at the building project the day before and hadn't seen them. Like everyday there were a few faces I didn't recognise who hadn't been in on previous days. Although they have a register, school in Cambodia still isn't as strict, many of the children walk in and outof the lessons. On our last day, there were also many children who ...