Magna plus sunflower After over a year of living in paradise Rach and I decided it was time to get out of our comfort zone and get exploring. Apparently Australia is a big place and life exists outside the Bay; I’m not sure about this theory but I’m more than happy to test it out! As […]
Adrenaline Junky
I have spent almost a week in Cairns, Queensland in the mighty Australia. In this time I have explored rainforests, swam with turtles, lazed on deserted beaches, experienced true terror followed by pure adrenalin and even picked up some Australian lingo. I arrived in the small town of Cairns exhausted after a overnight flight from […]
Reflections – Part 1
Today I leave Asia and fly to Cairns in Australia. I can’t believe my four months in this wonderful continent is over; in some ways it feels like I have been backpacking around the South East of this wonderful continent my whole life, however, I could quite easily spend another four months in Thailand, Laos, […]
First impressions of Kuala Lumpur; Flyovers, Butterflies and Hawker Food
I am writing this from the best internet cafe I have been in; this may seem an insignificant and boring detail but when you are travelling without a laptop and trying to write about it, these things matter. From my experience in Asia so far, internet cafes tend to be noisy, smelly places, filled with […]
Vietnam history, Crazy traffic and Floating pigs!
Wow I’m kind of behind right now. I’m blaming below par internet connections, and nothing to do with procrastination or laziness…..Also I cant work out how to move the pictures so they’re all at the bottom so please still read it! 🙂 So from the party central of Nha Trang I journeyed South to Ho […]
The Killing Fields, Tuol Sleng and the Kampuchea
Monday 11th October Today I experienced the darker side of Phnom Penh and Cambodia’s history at the the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek and the Tuol Sleng Prison. It was a harrowing experience and as I walked back into central Phnom Penh my thoughts were completely occupied by what I had seen and the atrocities […]