Arriving in Laos is like stepping back 100years. The border looks like is was a Blue Peter 'make' costructed out of crisp boxes and sticky back plastic. We spent many an hour here waiting for the staff to finish their lunch before they could charge us overtime and let us into the country. Laos works on a whole different timescale to the rest of the world. Buses with child-size pleather seats, puking locals, 1 tonne of rice, 3 tonnes of melons, 70 passengers and 4...

This, i'm sure you'll all be relieved to know, is most probably the penultimate email in my current series. So pour yourself a brew and scroll on. The last few weeks have nicely converted me into a massive fan of Asia. This continent is so random and contrasting that it fills me with excitement and each day is a new, usually stranger, surprise. We skimmed through Northern Thailand stopping at what felt like every temple ever constructed and every Buddha monumen...

Asian Adventure:Chapter One Technically this entry covers chapters one through to thirteen, so i guess this is more of an 'Old Testament' than an introduction. For the 6 weeks that ive been here i've been putting off this email and the ardour that it requires, but now i feel sufficiently relaxed enough to channel my energy for the day and guide you through my travels of Asia. So it all started in Singapore, I must have been one of the few tourists that actually...