Chau Doc, Vietnam, and Louis Dai prowls the night for distraction while he waits to cross over the border into Cambodia. But amidst whores, gangsters and transvestites, he's the first to be thrown out of a bar.
Thailand to Singapore by train? Paula Denny takes the local service, and rises before dawn to clack across three countries in a tropical, palm-heavy haze.
It's not easy to predict what friends and relatives understand from your travel tales. Jenni Stembridge finds no-one's remotely interested that she's been flicked by a ping pong ball hurled from a Thai stripper's not-so-private parts: all her family want to talk about is her 'Singapore Hole'.