The past few weeks has been all about less travel and more R&R.  We’ve spent 5 days in Chiang Mai and 7 days in Ko Samui just chilling out really but there has been some excitement worth mentioning.
As you may have seen from the previously posted photos, we spent a day in an Elephant training [...]

December 5th is King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 82nd birthday.  Our timing couldn’t have been better to be in Bangkok for this occasion.
Around lunchtime as were wandering about the street stalls along Sukhumvit Street we heard music in the distance.  So like so many others we poked our head out onto the normally traffic crazy street [...]

After a very long day on those buses, crossing the border we finally arrived back in Bangkok after exactly a month to the day since we were last here.
On arrival we befriended an aussie guy and his girlfriend and tagged along with them to find accommodation.  This was an awful mistake as it turns out.  [...]

After two nights in Siem Reap we decided to head to Battombang, a town south west of our location on the other side of the Tonle Sap lake about 3 hours bus ride from Siem Reap.
Our thoughts behind going to Battombang were this;  from there we were perfectly placed, geographically speaking, to either get a [...]

Following another long bus ride from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap we arrived at our very cool guesthouse, Bou Savy.  Siem Reap is quite a cool town with a busy nightlife.  There is a street in the very centre of the town called ‘Pub Street’ which is strangely enough filled with pubs and restaurants.
The next [...]