Day 40 We jumped on the coach and embarked on a 10 hour mini bus journey to the Laos/Vietnamese border. Still feeling bunged up, the journey wasn't great, but it had to be done. We paid the usual "tax" at immigration and got our visas to enter. We reached Lak Xao at 3pm and dropped our stuff into the hotel. Kelly and I went looking for some food and found that this sleepy town didn't have many restaurants, and the ones they had were closed. We found on...

Day 28 Our bloody alarm didn't go off, and so at 730am, we heard a banging on our door…..it was the tour guide. He was wondering where we were, we jumped up in a panic and grabbed all our clothes and belongings, and stuffed them into our bags. We were very late….the bus was meant to leave at 730am. We were downstairs in 10mins and the bus wasn't delayed too long. We drove to the Vietnamese border, it was at this point that I discovered I hadn't given the hot...

Day 22 After a long bus journey we arrived at the Cambodian border and crossed the land crossing. A land crossing is a strange experience, as there is an area of land in between the two countries, which is no mans land. Gambling is illegal in Cambodia and Thailand, and so as you walk through the 700m of no mans land towards Cambodia, there are hundreds of massive casinos. It's a crazy experience, it has a lawless feel to it, as there aren't any police or council...

Day 5-7Flew from Beijing to shanghai, then to Bangkok, and then straight onto Phuket. Phuket is a little island off the coast of Thailand. We spent a day and 2 nights in Phuket, I had stayed there before and didn't think it was as good as the smaller islands, and so only wanted to spend 2 nights there. Spent the day on the beach and while walking back to the hotel we were nearly decapitated by a rope attached to a parasailor (if that's even a word), who was being...

Kelly finished work 2 weeks earlier than me to make sure that all was packed and we were 100% prepared for our world travels. I of course accused and teased her of being a bum and spending all day in bed and watching tv, but in truth it worked out really well. She got everything packed and organised days before our departure date. We managed to sell everything...even a 3 year old rotten mattress, now I knew that I was a reasonable salesman...but even I was impres...