Hi! I met my tour group on Sunday. There are only 4 other people on the tour - 3 girls of a similar age to me and a man of about 60. They are called Sally (from Melbourne, a midwife), Jessica (from Germany, Aldi store manager), Kate (from England, a lawyer) and John (from Greece/Canada, retired). Kate and I got talking and we share a number of similarities. Her surname is Barker, she was bron at Hexham General Hospital, her brother is 24 and works for KPMG as a...

Hi! Have made it to Ho Chi Minh City! I got a bus here - the nicest bus in Cambodia!!! It still took 7 hours but the service was great. They took care of us at the border crossings and gave us food and water - fantastic! Also I met a really nice girl on the bus who I have spent the afternoon with exploring the town. All good! More news from Vietnam soon! Louise x.

Hi! I have had a fantastic week! But have been extremely busy. I went to Kampot last Saturday (on the public bus which took over 7 hours!!!) to meet Katie who is Helena's cousin. Katie runs the Cambodian arm of a UK charity called Epic Arts which encourages integration of disabled people into the community through art. In Kampot the charity has a cafe which is run by a mixture of deaf and disabled Cambodians. The plan was that I was going to go there and ru...

Hi!I had a nice time on my last day in Siem Reap. We went to Taprohm - the temple with all the trees growing in, around and on top of it. It is where Tomb Raider was filmed apparently. It is a massive building, there is interesting stuff to see everywhere you look.The day after we took the bus to Kompong Cham (taking about 6 hours or so!). On the way we stopped off at some services. The service places are very different than back home. You get off the bus and imm...

Hi! I really enjoyed my couple of days in Battambong. It is a quiet place, but the people are so friendly! All the kids wave at you and talk to you - I felt like a minor celebrity! One day we hired motor bikes and went out in the country stopping off at places of interest. We saw a fish paste factory (the smelliest factory I have been in, and I've been in a few!), a pineapple farm (where we had lunch and quite possibly the freshest pineapple I will ever eat...