Just a brief entry (if I can manage that) we are flying to Hanoi tomorrow, so once we have been there a while will update again. We have ended out stay here with a mammoth bike ride today – well it wasn’t supposed to be mammoth however we got lost!!! Anyway we went in search of Henry Moauts grave who was a French explorer who founded Ankor Watt (which we are going to visit in Cambodia). He died here in Luang at the age of 35 in the 1800’s and hi...

We have made it to Luang Prabang after a 30 minute flight which was a bit hairy on the landing – Jay’s first experience of a propelled plane.  This place is really luscious – really green and fairly peaceful.  We managed to bag ourselves a good deal on the guest house – 2 pound a night – it’s our first experience of a shared bathroom but we have our own balcony and its clean so we reckon it’s the best one we hav...

Well we have crossed the Friendship Bridge into our next country Laos, which was a one hour bus ride from Nong Khai - strange experience we were on the bus then we all had to get off walk through customs get back on for 2 minute ride then back off to go through customs at the other end then back on!?? We are in the new capital Vientiane which is like a building site at the moment they are resurfacing all the raods and covering the sewers over - sounds nice!!!!!!!...