Going Home

Exactly one year ago today we flew out of London bound for South America. In just over 2 days time we will be landing back at Heathrow, our year long adventure apparently all over. I am going back to work, the kids will go back to school. All things will seemingly return to “normal”. However, I’m…

Lan Xang (Land of a Million Elephants)

One of those never to be forgotten experiences is standing in the Nam Khan river throwing buckets of water over some elephants (and only occasionally at each other) that you have just met and feed some bananas to. It is one of those things that this trip, this year out from the ordinary is all about….

Big Brother Mouse

Part of the satisfaction of a project like this, is occasionally finding somewhere you can give something back and make a difference. The Big Brother Mouse project is a literacy programme in Laos, trying to get literacy levels up in a country where, traditionally, no-one reads. We heard about before we came and we have…

All Templed out!

After the chaos that was Phnom Penh, it was great to get out of the capital and see some real Cambodia. The little city of Battambang is much calmer and restful, and the circus show that we mainly went there to see was fantastic. Really talented entertainers. Siem Reap is another story completely. I had…

Crazy Vietnam

Oh My word. How time flies. I haven’t had time to touch on the 3 weeks we just had in Australia and already our time in Vietnam is drawing to a close. Actually its only the traffic in old quarter Hanoi that’s crazy. Everywhere else we’ve been its been much more respectable. Which isn’t to…