We arrived in Vang Vieng at about 7pm, it was chucking it down and we didn't have a room booked. This is not one of our ideal scenario's, especially when a lot of the rooms we asked about were too expensive. Eventually we found somewhere, we checked in and it was only after we'd taken the room that we were told it might be noisy as the bar across the road was the only late night bar in the centre. How loud could it actually be? Let us tell you ..... it was like the DJ was in our room from 8pm till 1am with the biggest sound system you can imagine!!!!!

The following day we hired a moped and set off to see some waterfalls and the blue lagoon. We were on a dirt road and there had been a lot of rain, people were coming in the opposite direction to us in dune buggies absolutely covered from head to toe in mud, it didn't really bode well but we carried on regardless.

Halfway there the track became a wet, muddy, slippery mess, the bike was sliding everywhere and we even saw a few locals struggling and one Japanese tourist had come off his bike and snapped a break off so it wouldn't start. We decided I'd walk through the small patch of mud and Casson would take the bike through. Off he went but he seemed to keep going for ages before he stopped and there I was wading through the mud, it was so deep my flip flops kept getting stuck in it so in the end I went bare foot, sliding everywhere. It was obvious to me that we weren't going to make it on the bike but as Casson had carried on through I thought he must want to try but oh no, no sooner had I reached him he said he thought we should turn round! Well why the hell had he let me walk all the way through the mud only for me to have to turn round and walk back the way I came from! To be fair we did laugh a lot as my feet were covered in thick mud and I looked a right idiot sliding all over the place but note to Casson, next time turn straight around, don't wait for me to get to you!

The scenery in and around Vang Vieng is beautiful but the place itself isn't. It's full of kids and video bars showing friends on a loop all day long and there's something really grubby about the place.

That night though we decided that rather than listen to the music from our room we might as well have a drink in the bar instead. It's probably the first time on the whole trip we've actually felt old, some of the people in there looked about 16 so we found ourselves a corner, sat back, watched and drank our free drink. Well this is were it all went wrong, what is it about the word "free" that makes us British so greedy? Between 8pm and 9pm it was all you can drink free whiskey and cokes, so that's what we did ...... drank all we could! Neither of us really like whiskey and coke! The next thing we know, I'm on the chairs dancing and Casson is off on the stage dancing to gangnam style with his new Japanese friends!

The next day was a write off as Casson was rough so we didn't go tubing in the end but the weather was rubbish anyway and to be fair we didn't fancy getting pink eye from the dirty river water so it didn't matter.

General points
1) Its been raining quite a bit recently so we're permanently pebble dashed with dirty, muddy water up the backs of our legs and I've got flipper feet so constantly have mud flicked up the back of my shorts and top. I can't stand it, we can't keep any clothes clean.

2) I made another scene due to not being at one with nature. We were in a restaurant when I felt something land on my foot, it was some sort of flying cockroach! Grim does not even cover it. I HATE all bugs and cockroaches are the worst.