We decided to go to the hospital after breakfast this morning because the swelling on my ankle hadn't gone down. I called our insurance and double checked everything beforehand and they were fine with it. It's a nice clean looking hospital that's well organised. I had a new patient type check up first, and then was seen by an English speaking doctor. He checked it over and said he thinks it's just a bad reaction to the bite but didn't believe it was infected. He...

We booked ourselves into a Thai cooking class for today! It cost 1050 Baht each (£21) and runs from 9am until 3pm. We were picked up at 8.45am and taken to the local Market and shown what all the different vegetables are. There's so many different vegetables that are used in the Asian countries. We hardly use any...I don't see these down my local Asda anyway. From there we drove about 20 minutes out of town to a nice big house. There's a large open air part th...

Slept like a baby. We were absolutely knackered last night. We had a long day and have had a hectic week. I made a quick trip down to the Stray office this morning, to sort out the c*** up with the bus yesterday. They were very apologetic and obviously refunded the cost of the mini-van that we had to get which actually cost more than the Stray bus. Plus they had been down to our guest house last night to pay for our room. So it wasn't bad because we saved $30! B...

Well, didn't feel that bad this morning, but we did have nearly 9 hours sleep. I'm sure I heard some preaching from the monks over speakerphone this morning! Had to be up at 9 though to get packed and go get our mini-bus back to Luang Prabang at 11am. We got there for about 10.50am. Well, we waited, and waited and by 11.30am I rang the Stray office and spoke to somebody to see where the bus was. They said they would find out and ring back. Took them about 15 min...

Woke up feeling pretty hungover this morning...seems to be a regular thing recently... So today we're doing what we came here to do....TUBING!! Basically, tubing is floating down the Nam Song River on a tractor inner tube and being thrown a rope and pulled into bars... First off we went to get a tubing t-shirt - makes us look cooler and in with the crowd. We bumped into the Irish couple, Amiee and Darren, that we met on the plane to Laos and had breakfast (actu...