Hello! Well, to be honest there's not a lot to tell anyone about at the moment as our days are just full of sleeping, sunbathing, lazing on the beach, eating and more sunbathing and more sleeping! We've been on samui for 2 wweeks now, which i think is the longest we've ever stayed in one place on this trip and for the first time it's felt like a holiday... the usual running around frmo one place to the next with your rucksack is just not relaxing!!! Tomorrow nig...

Hello there!!! Busy few days with little access to the internet, hence no blogs or photos, but we've just said goodbye to Jayne and Christophe as they head home to Paris, so we've dived into a cafe to keep our pages updated! We left Vientiane after a nice couple of days by the (dried-out) river on the 6th and after crossing the border at Nong Khai, we took the night train to Bangkok, which in a first-class sleeper carriage was by far the comfiest overnight trave...

Made it to Vientiane in one piece in what was our comfiest bus ride so far. THen again, it was only 3 hours in a minibus, so couldn't have been too bad. Priority jobs for today are locating our Nong Khai - Bangkok train tickets (which were supposed to be delivered to the hotel for when we got here. We got here. There are no train tickets.) and working out where i'll be able to watch Man U vs Lyon early tomorrow morning! This could be fun...

I wrote this one just for you David!! Although I feel that golden balls has received far too much praise from everyone for the blogs…..at least I didn't forget Mothers Day! We have been in Laos now for 4 days but it feels longer, very different feeling to Cambodia and particularly stark difference from Vietnam. In Nam we had got used to the constant badgering from "moto" men and people in shops and cafes brought "draggy innies" to a w...

Hi there. Made it to Laos from Hanoi yesterday without incident. I'd done sufficient research on the Fokker F70 to have some confidence in its ability to fly us safely into Luang Prabang and sure enough it was fine. A dutch made airplane used primarily by KLM and Air Austria for Regional air travel, the F70 is a step on from the original F100 and began production in 1990 with two options for the flight deck to choose from! And it takes off and lands without burst...