It takes a village to raise a child…

Posted by on Aug 13, 2012 in Cambodia | 5 comments Most of you may be aware that we have been hosts for Helpers Exchange for a number of years now.  In a nutshell, we provide accommodation and meals in exchange for a set amount of hours work per day. This arrangement has proved to be a good experience for our girls to meet and interact with people from around the world, and of course a fantastic opportunity for those who are travelling (one that...
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Temples aplenty

Posted by on Aug 12, 2012 in Cambodia | 1 comment Naively, I thought Angkor Wat (the largest Hindu temple complex in the world), consisted of just the one large sprawling temple.  I had no idea it was part of an extensive archaeological site stretching some 400km2 with temples of differing styles.  One of the most important sites in south-East Asia, it contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer empire from the 9th...
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It’s the journey not the destination…

Posted by on Aug 8, 2012 in Cambodia, Thailand | 13 comments It was with a touch of trepidation we started out on our first land border crossing as we had read about many of the scams that exist with this particular Thai-Cambodian border.   Even though the buses are faster we have always enjoyed train journeys  so we set an early alarm for 4am for a 4.30am taxi ride to Bangkok’s main station Hua Lamphong,  a beautiful building built in Italian...
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A week in Bangkok …

Posted by on Aug 8, 2012 in Thailand, Vaccinations | 10 comments Ok well it was 9 days to be exact.  Although we hadn’t made any other plans other than booking the first few nights, we had thought after our first lot of needles we would head somewhere out of Bangkok.  Alas it was not to be. I was feeling so ill from ‘flu that I couldn’t even entertain the thought of packing up and moving on so soon.  So we stayed. Our guesthouse...
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Ouch!

Posted by on Aug 7, 2012 in Thailand, Vaccinations | 0 comments Our long awaited visit to the Thai Travel Clinic to receive our vaccinations was the outing for our first full day in Bangkok. It is a special clinic of the Bangkok Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine at the Mahidol University.  Some people were surprised to hear we were having our vaccinations in Thailand however visiting medical or optical specialists in Asia is not...
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