The AirAsia check in line at Bangkok airport is quite long at 0530 hrs and chaos reigns supreme. People abandoning their trolleys and clogging the waiting area. The bus ride to the plane is about 15 to 20 minutes and the flight to Phnom Phen finally leaves almost 30 minutes late.

The Phnom Phen 'international airport' is pretty casual and not as nice as the Siam Reap one. Lots of immigration staff and a quick passage through. The eVisa works well and the second copy is stamped and...

39 pounds down now. whipeeeeee!

I would love to lose all this weight that i am carting around - it is happening too. Be fit and well and travel. We never did it when we were young. You just did not I am 50 and the most exciting thing you did back then was work in a holiday camp for a season.
I dream of taking off mainly Asia. i don't want to "do" India and I know a lot will say you are not proper traveller but I am old enough now not to bother what people think.
I am also too old to totally rough it and would not...

When I first went to Pemuteran with a very good friend of mine, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. We had just driven round from Medewi Beach where we had stayed the previous night in some Lumbung style cottage rich with ants and with only the most basic of bathrooms. The Pemuteran area, besides the trucks that roll along the north coast road from the ferry port (to Java) to the ferry port for Lombok, is very quiet. We eventually arrived at Pemuteran proper at which time there were just three...

It seems a former life now, rather than something that happened just a few years ago, but once, for a thankfully not so brief period of my life I managed to go extended walkabout with a laptop with mobile connection and survive.

Having given up on conventional ways of earning a living, something to do with going crazy counting nose hairs on fellow passengers, I managed to do something many people yearn for, I dropped out and went up in the world. Having started my own not so pretty...