Where are we now?

In Cambodia! But not for long.

So what have we done.... Looks like I missed out all of Australia (again). Mostly we were doing organisey type things. We did manage to get a trip along the Great Ocean Road and into the Grampians in, which was pretty good. Had a week-and-a-bit in Melbourne, went to the Neighbours sets and Ramsey Street (yeah!) and pottered about in Canberra for a bit.

Then we were in Thailand! On the flight over I had 8 under 5s in my immediate vicinity. The stuff of nightmares. But they were all erally well behaved and I even made friends with a Thai baby. Nice.

We decided to join a group to do a tour through Asia as after 7 months we're both utterly bored and tired of organising everything and the tour has taken all the hassle out of travel, which is rather nice. We had a couple of days in Bangkok where we met the group. Reports of riots and violence seem vastly exaggerated, no problems at all. We came to Cambodia about a week ago and have been busy little bees! First off we headed to Siam Reap, the gateway town to Angkor Wat. What a place. I've seen a million asian temples in my time, but the various different temples here just blew me away, particularly Ta Prohm where trees have been reclaiming it back into nature (if you've seen Lara Croft, which I haven't.. it was filmed here).

So.. after Angkor, we headed to Pnomh Penh. Here we visited the Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng prison. Absolutely heartbreaking places, and I think we were all in shock as we walked around looking at the skulls and bones sticking out of the ground and the stories from the guide. So hard to believe it was all so recent. A very sobering day. We also took in the Royal Palace complex, same same =)

Yesterday we arrived in Sihanoukville, which is where we are now. Unfortunately my purse was stolen from my zipped up bag which was next to me the whole time last night by one of the million kids trying to sell us bracelets etc. Bit of a pain, but there wasn't much in it and nothing irreplaceable. Just means that I'll have to blag my way onto a dive boat and that Jimbo has to act as my bank. Poor boy. Travelling with someone makes things like this so much easier to deal with.

Excuse me for the poor quality of this post: it was a long night last night and I'm pretty tired. However, a long day on the beach beckons =)

Till next time

xx