Scariest day yet! We got up early and a Tuk Tuk picked us up from our guesthouse at 7.10am to take us to the bus station. Our bus to Vientiane was at 8am and was supposedly VIP, but the bus looked quite old and beaten up on the outside. I was hoping it would be okay on the inside but it was even worse, there seemed to be a layer of grime over everything on the bus, the antimacassars were filthy and you could barely see out of the windows because they were so di...

Hello again! I left you this morning when we were sitting in Joma, the cafe at 7.30am. We stayed in the cafe until 10am, just chatting, reading and writing. We met a nice lady from Brisbane who we spoke to for a bit. She said her home wasn't affected by the recent floods but her workplace was (but she didn't mind because she gets to go on holiday). At 10am we decided to have another go at finding a hostel. Luckily the second place we asked had a room, so we jus...

A lazy day. We had a lie in and checked out of our room at 11am, then found a little restaurant for breakfast. After breakfast we wandered to another restaurant which overlooks the Mekong river, where Vix and I had an iced coffee and Vicky had a Beerlao (the Laos beer). We sat there for three hours in the sunshine just reading and writing and relaxing. We then found yet another restaurant where we had some lunch, I had stir fried green veg and rice, it was actu...

A less eventful day today, but I'm in a new country! Parn's parents Paitoon and Tawee picked us up at 8am and took us to Chiang Mai bus station, where they helped us buy a ticket to Chiang Rai, which was 169 baht (£3.40). We said goodbye to them and thanked them for their hospitality, but we still had about an hour an a half to wait so we bought some snacks for the journey and wrote in our journals to pass the time. We saw a coach arrive in our bay for Chiang...