Round The World Trip 2006

Hello there! A week to go until Christmas and also our final day in the lovely country of Cambodia. I think therefore that it's time for an extended session in the internet cafe again! Before I begin though I'd just like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I guess the work's Christmas parties have all been and gone and you're now desperately scouring the shops for those final few Christmas presents. I bet the rain, the wind and the grey skies are making frequent appearances too for all those back in the UK. After 10 months away do I wish I was there? Nope, not really! Well, we've been in Cambodia for a little over 2 weeks now and on the whole it's been quite a wonderful experience. So, I guess I ought to let you know what we've been up to... We left Bangkok and Thailand on Saturday 2nd December and it was a most unpleasant day. We had reserved a couple of tickets on the bus from Bangkok to Siem Reap in Cambodia with a travel agency on the inf...

Hello there once again! I hope you are fine and well. Lynn and I are both grand thank you very much! Well, as the clever ones amongst you will have noticed from the title, India is now behind us and Lynn and I are in Thailand. It's only a short stop in Thailand, far shorter than it deserves as we have only been here for 6 days and tomorrow we're off again - next stop: Cambodia. I suppose though that we ought to whizz back to India for a short while first so I can fill you in on our final 2 weeks there before leaping back over the Andaman Sea to Thailand... The last episode of my travelogue noted that we had arrived in Darjeeling in the far north-east of India where we planned to spend a week relaxing in the cooler, hillier climes. We arrived on Friday 10th November late in the day after a nightmare 26 hour journey. We checked into the Dekeling Hotel run by a lovely Tibetan couple and their 4 boys. The next morning, our first full day in Darjeeling, one of the boys offered to go...