My trip to Borneo was one of the worst I’ve ever taken. How did it all go so wrong? I’m not entirely sure. When I left you last, I was tiring of Kota Kinabalu. I had just spent three weeks in the city and while I initially adored everything about …

Greetings from Cambodia! Yes, I’ve finally returned to Southeast Asia and it’s SO good to be back! At the beginning of the month I had one week left of my sailing trip around the coast of Turkey and I’m pleased to say that the rest of my time on board …

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 …

Monkey Forest was one of the more traumatising experiences from my time in Bali. A forest filled with hundreds of monkeys that spend their days stealing from, and leaping on top of, tourists? It was never going to be somewhere that I enjoyed. I tried to avoid passing through this land …

“I think I’m going to throw up.” I clutched my stomach and groaned. Leaning back on the bed, I closed my eyes and began to writhe in pain. No response.  “I can’t do this. I feel so unwell. I really do”, I whimpered, sneaking a glimpse at Dave. I felt my …

I haven’t ridden a bike in more than ten years. I made a promise to myself that I would never allow myself to get on one ever again. I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t do it. Not after The Incident. It was 4pm on 10th April 2002. I was cycling …

This month, the inevitable happened. I had been dreading it for weeks and spent most of my days avoiding thinking about the looming deadline. At the beginning of the month I couldn’t escape it any longer; I had run out of time. I finally left Chiang Mai.  Chiang Mai had …