SORRY IT's BEEN SOOOO LONG. HERE's THAILAND Bangkok Day 1 Our first day and still neither of us felt right still.Today, Margareta and Sixten came to join us and we were hoping that we'd feel better so we could enjoy the sweets that they were bringing but no such luck.It feels like a waste when you're in a place and you want to be out doing stuff but you can't as you are totally wiped out. By the time Margareta and Sixten had got to the hotel, had their welcom...

Vang Vieng - Luang Prabang Day 5 Today was another moving day.We had shopped around after learning that we had paid more for the trip to Vang Vieng and got our hotel to match a town price for a minivan to Luang Prabang today, so we were picked up and taken to it at 8am.The van was to take 5 hours and we'd seen plenty of Toyota Hiace's around so assumed that's what it would be.Nope.We got a bus - granted, a smaller one but still a bus.The Laos way….. Anyway, t...

Vang Vieng Day 3 Started with a nice 4 hour bus ride to the party town of Vang Vieng.The bus was a VIP (just a coach) so it was fine but the roads are still something to get used to.They use concrete but they forget to smooth it out or they have made holes in it for the fun of it (along with the occasional 10 metre section where they have missed putting concrete down - weird), so you happily bounce along.Then there are the wandering cows, water buffalos etc that...

Vang Vieng Day 3 Started with a nice 4 hour bus ride to the party town of Vang Vieng.The bus was a VIP (just a coach) so it was fine but the roads are still something to get used to.They use concrete but they forget to smooth it out or they have made holes in it for the fun of it (along with the occasional 10 metre section where they have missed putting concrete down - weird), so you happily bounce along.Then there are the wandering cows, water buffalos etc that...

Phnom Penh Day 3/ Vientiane Day 1 We had a flight in the afternoon so we had a lazy morning trying to find somewhere to stay in Vang Vieng. As we made the decision not to do the Gibbon Experience we now had a couple of days spare to spend in Vang Vieng and Luang Prabang. We arrived in Vientiane and the first thing that struck us was how quiet it was.Marie picked up some funny issue with her foot, so we took it easy for the afternoon, taking a gentle stroll arou...