Done very very little today which has been really nice. I woke up to find that my ankle had gone down quite a bit as well. We got down at about 10am and got ourselves a couple of lounging chairs for sunbathing at the the pool. And that's pretty much all we did all day! We did nip out at one point, and bumped into a few people we'd met in Vang Vieng. One crazy French guy called Craig who we actually met through the Swedish girls. He's a good laugh - think it wa...

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...