Oh my Buddha! I saw Lydia this morning and she is bruised from head to toe along her left hand side from doing that belly flop off the high swing yesterday. It looked really nasty and she was suffering quite a lot this morning from it. Why do we do these things when we are drunk, it seems like such a great idea at the time, but she was definitely regretting it today.Ed and I went off to find the Irish bar this morning for breakfast as we had promised to show t...

Wow, it was hot this morning, and as we are pretty much sleeping outside with only a mosquito net around us, there were no fans and definitely no air conditioning here as we were in a tree, it was still very humid and you had to get up just so that you could find a little breeze to cool you down. It was now time to have a look around, the showers and toilets were outside and in the open with only a shower curtain as a door to the shower. The common area had a b...

We arrived close to the border with Thailand and Laos at around 5 am and stopped off at a cafe for about an hour so that the bus company could check our passports and give us the relevant paperwork required to cross in to Laos and also to get a visa. As we were so early I did manage to get a few pictures of the sunrise over the Mekon river while I was waiting around.The border crossing was pain free and it cost $31 to get a visa ($1 because it was before 8am for...

As I had already spent a few days in Bangkok during my organised trip in northern Thailand the days waiting for my Vietnam visa and getting the bus to Laos were basically spent being lazy and catching up with my blog, although it doesn't seem like it now as while writing this, I am currently just over two weeks behind and trying desperately to catch up.I had booked a VIP air conditioned coach to take me to Vientiene (the capital) in Laos and was met at the ho...