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 have found yet. Mee, who is a Laos resident who works at the guest house took us on a cycle tour of the local Blacksmith village, Silk Worm farm and the Paper shop, which were all really interesting – we got to see how the traditional Los people live and work and managed to help out a little and speak to them – see our photos – it really is like stepping back in time.  We have also been helping Mee with his English which has been fun, I think we have found our true calling teaching English as a foreign language.  We also helped him with a job application the other day – which is good as we will need to have practice of that for when we get back home (although we aren’t thinking about too much at the moment. We went to visit Kouangsi Waterfall the other day which was spectacular the nicest one so far – Nicky if Will was jealous of the other one wait until he sees this one!  We managed to negotiate our way up to the top albeit not on a normal trail path.  Jay zoomed off up there at 5 million miles an hour whilst I opted for the “I want to stay alive’ pace!  It was worth it.  Mind you the bus journey there was well hairy!!!!  The roads are well how can I describe them……………………..not roads, they are mud humps and ditches so you can imagine after an hour we were pleased to get off. We have found Joma for our breakfast so Jay is managing to have his muesli every day.  We also experienced our first Laos vendor food – we purchased a bbq’d Mekong fish on a stick and a veg, rice, noodle salad for all of one pound 25 pence – however, we did manage to get ‘told off’ and have our eating utensils taken away from us as we bought off one vendor and unknowingly sat at a rival vendors seating area! We now know.  We have also tried the drink out a bag which is odd but works. And yes I have found BeerLao which is the cheapest thing to drink and tastes yummy – Gary, Leona, Chris, Sharon, Nicky you would drink pints of the stuff.  Kenny boy think it beats the old bud!  Mark no sissy girly cider drinks here!!! Thanks for all your messages and emails as ever, we love to read them and we are glad the weather is a predictable as ever over there – here it is about 30 degrees – nice!  You guys from cannons will be pleased to hear that Jay is keeping up his fitness routine, he went running the other morning and included a 386 step climb (running) to Phousi temple.  I on the other hand remained in bed!! I did manage to walk the steps that evening to see the sunset – which was beautiful (although those pesky mosquitoes were out in force) and I did run with Jay yesterday morning. We are here another few days and then fly to Hanoi in Vietnam on Wednesday 15th, so we will be there for Jay’s birthday.  That’s my epic over with today (you will be pleased to know that this is my second attempt at writing this as I accidentally wrote over my first effort – and despite Jay telling me to save it  - I didn’t so you can imagine the ‘I told you so I got’ from him.)  Hope you have enjoyed.  Just remembered we bought some stuff from the night market here so dad they are on the way to you – we are forward planning for when we get a place of our own!!!