Hello from Beijing! The lone explorer is now back out in the big wide world! The trip started out quite dramatically with mum putting unleaded in our diesel car so then Birdy had to come and collect us from Aylesbury and take me to Heathrow at 100mph (literally!!). I was terrified! I got my first flight to Vienna which looked from the window to be the most boring place in the world. It was all fields, tiny villages and millions of windmills. They seem pretty...

Hi Everyone, So as you probably know I had to come home from Cambodia because I was in a motorbike accident and the cut on my knee was too deep for me to stay out there. It is slowly healing and I have been home for almost 4 weeks now. Thank you to everyone for all your get well wishes and cards, I really appreciated it (maybe not at the time because I was a zombie on all those drugs but I do now!). I'm heading back off on my travels on Saturday which is exci...

Helllooo.... I am very tired, dirty and being eaten alive my mosquitos, here is a recap of my last few days....... The capital turned out to be pretty boring because it rained constantly so I couldn't go out and explore much. I spent a lot of the day inside and reading books. I have started a new book called 'The children of the killing fields' which is about the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It is such a sad book but I felt like I had to read up on what happned bef...

Hello! I have finally managed to break free from Vang Vieng. I was only planning on being there for a day or 2 really but the place just sucks you in because it is so chilled out. It was a nightmare! All the restuarants show episodes of friends so you go for a quick bite to eat with a plan of doing something active afterwards and 3 hours later you have watched a whole series and its time to go home and get ready to go out! One day I woke up early with the mis...

Hi! So I'm well into the Laos journey now. It all started last week when I left Chaing Mai. I had to get a minibus for 6 hours to the Thai/Laos border. I was lucky with my minibus because everyone was really nice. That night we stayed at a guesthouse on the border (but still in Thailand). We were staying right by the river and one side is Thailand then the other side is Laos, it was very weird. There was literally nothing in the town but we managed to find a bar...