See the world - Explore it

HONG KONG & CHINA A glittering Metropolis of glinting sky rises, shops, bars and restaurants and we loved it! Hong kong was an amazing city, although our first impression was to turn around and go home. We arrived in the early hours of the morning after a delayed flight from Cambodia, tired hot and irritable. Our taxi driver warning us our hotel wasn’t great, which turned out to be situated 6 floors above a seedy looking shopping complex, strangely enough in the heart of downtown Kowloon. We stayed in the taxi while Jason hunted it down and gasped as we watched a man get attacked and beaten in the street, leaving Michael terrified, screaming for us to leave before even finding our hotel. On seeing our room, he promptly broke down into inconsolable tears. I have to say I felt like doing the same. A shoe box was an exaggeration to describe our new home. An over sized single bed masquerading as a double and a single wedged into a 2 x 4m room which also housed a bathroom, a shower d...

Kiwi See the World “through my eyes”- Cambodia We took a bus over the border into Cambodia and with quiet trepidation surveyed the view from the window. In many ways it reminded us of Lao. Lots of dilapidated villages, wooden shacks and extremely poor, a sharp contrast to the more affluent Vietnam we had left behind. We were however pleasantly surprised to arrive into Phnom Penh, which was a bustling, relatively clean glittering city, much to Michaels relief who had fretted and questioned us about our likely accommodation the whole way. Our first day was to tour the Killing Fields and S-21 genocide museum. A former high school converted into jail where thousands of Cambodians we're brutally tortured, starved and murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 -1979. A graphic and harrowing experience to look into the eyes of the men, women and children catalogued and photographed on entering the jail never to leave. 3 million victims over quarter of the population murde...

Kiwi See the World - Through my eyes Rather than write another article on Asperger’s, we decided to keep a running diary on how Michael copes travelling for a year and share some of the problems we face, as well as the successes on our journey as we go. This isn’t intended to be the answer to managing his ASD. The saying you’ve met one person with ASD is correct. You really have only met one person with ASD. Everyone is individual and different. We are sharing our experience of travel, good and bad in the hope that it has a positive impact on Michael's life and will have value to another parent faced with the same or similar issues to our selves. Michael is fully involved in this blog and approves every thing before publishing. January 2018 A week to go! Michael 10 is smart, articulate but lacking in empathy, has limited social skills around his peers and has extremely high levels of anxiety. Faced with the prospect of travelling around the world for ...