I spent almost a month in Cambodia in November and chose to spend most of my time on the coast, checking out some beautiful, underrated beaches. I thought I’d put together a post of all my favourite Cambodia photos, hopefully they’ll convince you to check it out if you decide to head to Southeast Asia! Otres Beach became my home for the majority of my time on Cambodia’s coast and there... 
I recently spent ten days on a scooter road trip around the Mekong Delta with Dave and Stuart, similar to the one we did in Northern Thailand last year. Our time in the Delta was filled with rice paddies, river ferries, bad roads and, well, people carrying strange things on the back of their bikes. It began just outside of Saigon. As I was happily snapping photos of the changing scenery from the back of... 
When it finally came time for Dave and I to drag ourselves away from Otres Beach, we needed a break. Though living on the beach had been wonderful and relaxing, we had still spent the majority of our time chained to our laptops. Dave and I have managed to carve out a wonderful life for ourselves, one where we can have our office located on a beach with our lunch breaks spent swimming in the sea, but we... 
When I first visited Cambodia, I foolishly only allowed myself four days to spend in the entire country. I spent all of my time exploring the temples of Angkor and didn’t venture outside of Siem Reap. Despite having seen only a tiny, tiny part of the country over such a short time period, I instantly fell in love with Cambodia and left wishing I had more time, desperate to see more. So when Dave and... 
When I decided to return to Thailand six months after leaving, it would have been easy to head straight to Chiang Mai and spend two weeks revisiting my favourite haunts. However, I always like to visit somewhere new each time I return to a country and there’s a whole area of Thailand between Bangkok and Chiang Mai that I’ve never seen. Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, two ancient cities were the first... 
If you’re a travel blogger and planning on spending several months working in Chiang Mai as most of us seem to do, chances are you’ll end up living at Smith Residence. Located just outside Chiang Mai gate towards the south of the Old Town, Smith is a travel blogger haunt and the majority of travel bloggers who were in town in 2010/11 were living there, including Dave. I met Dave in Chiang Mai... 
I’m tormenting my OCD and disrupting my usual strict chronological order of Never Ending Footsteps to bring you this photo essay. I attended the Yi Peng floating lantern festival in Chiang Mai a few days ago and it was so magical that I couldn’t bear to wait 3 months (I know. I promise I’m trying to catch up!) to share the photos with you! My sole reason for returning to Chiang... 
I’d been in Ubud just a few days when I was viciously attacked by monkeys. It was an incident that had me in tears, lost me a bottle of Sprite and reluctant to ever return to Monkey Forest. It just wasn’t safe. Monkey Forest is, as you would expect, a large forest filled with monkeys. There are over 300 of them and after spending five minutes there I had deduced that all 300 are evil. Tamed by... 
“You like beer, Miss Lauren?”, a voice called out as I stumbled groggily out of my guesthouse. Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I turned towards the noise and looked up in a daze – just in time to see an ice cold can of Angkor Beer rushing towards my face. Ouch. “Oh, Miss Lauren, Miss Lauren, I’m so sorry”, my tuk-tuk driver apologised profusely as I stared at the can... 
Si Phan Don, also known as the 4,000 islands, was final stop on my whirlwind tour of Laos and it was definitely the highlight. Located in Southern Laos, Si Phan Don is where the Mekong breaks down into many rivers and channels, forming thousands of tiny islands. I would be spending a week on Don Det, the most well-known of these islands. You won’t find any quality villas here – dozens of $5 a... 
Luang Prabang is well known for the daily ritual of the tak bat, the morning alms giving ceremony. Everyday, before sunrise, hundreds of saffron-clad monks silently walk in single-file through the streets of the town, collecting food offerings from the locals. It is supposedly one of the highlights – a must-see for any visitor to Luang Prabang, so once I’d recovered from my awful experience on... 
My slow boat journey to Luang Prabang can definitely be described as being less than amazing. I hadn’t been able to sleep for over 24 hours and then I found myself spending an entire day sitting next to a dead body. Remind me why I thought a boat would be better than using an airline! So when we finally arrived in town, I was mentally and physically drained and I had decided I wanted to spend the... 
One of my favourite things about travelling is being able to watch the sunset from different places around the world every few nights. I’ve been fortunate to have witnessed some incredible ones over the past year. There were the sunsets in Zadar that Alfred Hitchcock claimed to be the most beautiful in the world, the amazing sunset over Ljubljana where I took possibly my best ever photo, the sunset... 
“You can’t go to Laos and not take the slow boat to Luang Prabang! I promise you, it will be one of the best, and most relaxing, experiences of your entire life.” I stared at my feet, deep in thought, unwilling to commit. I had just 14 days to explore both Laos and Cambodia and I was apprehensive about spending two of those precious days sitting on a boat. I didn’t want to waste my... 
Working on Koh Phi Phi for two weeks had both Dave and I exhausted and desperate for a break from our productive yet soul-destroying work routine. After deciding that we needed a digital detox and to spend a week offline on a beach, we set about trying to find the perfect island. A few searches for “Thailand paradise” brought up the island Koh Hong repeatedly and it looked absolutely stunning.... Posted by .
In July 2011 I left England for what was supposed to be a one year trip around the world. Within a few months of leaving I knew that a year would never be enough. I now work online and travel permanently, seeking misadventures in unique, beautiful and fascinating places. Read more.
I'm here to show you how not to travel. Since I've been on the road I've been "poked" during a massage in Bangkok, punched a scammer in Shanghai, been attacked by monkeys in Bali, sat next to a dead woman on a boat in Laos and so much more. I call these The Incidents and you can see a full list of them here.
