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Full Member | Member since 16th Sep 05
Citizenship: United KingdomTook an 11 month trip beginning in Sept 06 in Rio and travelling through Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, on to NZ and OZ for 5 months, Bali, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Finished in Hong Kong in July 07. Now home and running my own Graphic design business - check it out: [url=http://www.pwd-design.co.uk]
Hobbies:Travelling, Reading, Music, Design/Art, Football (playing and watching), Sport
Favourite places:Favourite places (so far): South America! Best place on earth! Vietnam/Laos, West Coast Australia. Mexico, Barcelona, London, New York, Bulgaria, Dublin, Singapore, Florida, Cornwall.
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Posted by dbo | 11th July 2007
Bumpy is about the best word to describe our journey back into Thailand. Apparently, one of South East Asia's top airlines are paying the government of Cambodia a healthy sum to keep the road between Siem Reap and the Thai border in a dodgy condition. Unfortunately for many travellers, this extra cost is beyond them, and like us have to endure a morning of being thrown around a poorly made bus as it drives along the dusty, pot-holed track. The journey itself is only one-hundred-and-twenty kilometres, but takes a bone-crunching five hours to complete.
Finally back in Thailand, we only hung around in Bangkok long enough for a nights sleep in one of the Khao San Road's cheapie guesthouse rooms (a cardboard box in the street would probably have been more pleasant), and then headed to catch a local bus the following morning to Kanchanaburi, a small town about two hours west of the sprawling capital. Instantly, Kan (as the locals call it) is a likable town. Quiet and quaint, it belies muc
Sep 2006 - 16 Jul 2007
Visiting: England, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Hong Kong and England.
Jun 2006
Visiting: England.
Jul 2005
Visiting: Ireland.
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