• Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 07/03/2014

    bamboo cake, Cambodia, Malteser cupcake, Swallow Bakery, Chichester, Tutti Pole, Hungerford, meringue, Gu puds, souffle, carrot cake, Capers, Southsea

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from top left: 1. Bamboo cake from Cambodia. The correct name is Kralan and is a rice dish made of sticky rice with red beans, sugar, grated coconut and […]

  • Travel
  • Fun in the floating bungalow: Kampot, Cambodia

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    Top tip: don’t buy a bus ticket from the local pot dealer Our one and a half hour bus journey to Kampot lasted nearly five hours in a cramped non air-conditioned mini van and included various pick-up and drop-offs along the way. This is the norm in Cambodia with journey times often trippling if someone […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 27/02/2014

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from top left: 1. Refreshing strawberry ice-cream shake from Sister Srey, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Giving much needed energy to Helen before she cycled off to see the sunset […]

  • Travel
  • The room next to the party: Thailand to Cambodia

    I’ll take the room next to the party please. I left Bangkok heading six hours south to Koh Chang, Thailand’s second largest island situated off the north eastern coast, close to the town of Trat. I decided to make my own way there by public bus instead of booking the mini van put on for […]