So the bus journey from Vientiane to Hanoi is cheap but there is a reason why. It's pretty hellish although valium got me through most of it sleeping pretty much all the way to the border. When we got off the bus I hadn't quite prepared for the Vietnamese weather and how cold it would be but as my bag was locked away under the bus I had to spend the 2 and the half hours at the border freezing cold in shorts and flip-flops. I got a taste of Vietnam when I asked...