I haven’t made it yet to Thailand, Fi and I bought boat tickets three days ago for the 17th and we were due to leave the next morning, but an hour before we were due to leave I got quite ill with sickness and diarrhoea and couldn’t get out of the toilet for more than 5 mins! Last thing I felt like was a 5 hour boat trip! The girl who owned the place and her grandmother looked after me …. they treated us all like family really lovely. I stopped being sick a couple of hours after Fi left and stayed in bed for the day and by the evening I was much better and I’m absolutely fine now.

The day after Fi left, I moved to a different part of Sihanouville with an Irish girl (called Ailish!) where we are staying in a much nicer place for $2 each and we even have our own bathroom! No more bucket baths for me! Last time I had one I felt something tickle my feet and I looked down and there were loads of fat black worms whizzing over my feet, urgh! They were so fast! And although we are paying for accommodation here it works out cheaper altogether because food is loads cheaper here. And we’re still 5 mins walk from the beach.

I get on really well with Ailish she’s been travelling on her own for ages and says I’ll have no problems in Thailand on my own, its so developed its more like going on holiday to Europe. We watched City Of God last night on this huge screen outside where there was like a seating area made of straw with cushions and and little tables and it was nicer than a real cinema. The film was amazing. I really recommend it if you haven’t seen it.