We arrive at Julie Guesthouse with one thing on our mind......food!!! The guy behind the reception gets stroppy with us when we aren't paying attention to how our bill book works and slams it back in the rack, oops! (you get little books here that you write in when you help yourselves to something from the fridge, how very trusting!). All glad to be back in the land of coconut curries, chang beers, fruit shakes and pancakes we enjoy lunch in an incredibly posh bu...

We crossed the border into Thailand where this time they only wanted us to stay for 15 days rather than the usual 30. We of course take this news happily and thank the lovely immigration officer for his service - OK, so we fought with him which resulted in him closing the border until we left.. We can't quite work out whether he was correct or not, as some people are getting 15 days, others are getting 30, but we can't do anything about it, other than visit Burma...

A bumpy windy but relatively easy in comparison bus journey later we arrive at our home for the next few days "Sokdee Guesthouse" translated as cheers and lucky, a good omen we feel! Luang Prabang is a very sweet, very quiet national heritage town in direct contrast to the madness of Vang Vieng we have just left behind. Nestled alongside the banks of the Mekong and the Nam Khan river with rustic wooden buildings (every 2nd one a tour operator, restauran...

Our journey in was on the back of a pick up van style tuk tuk (I love the way that Asian countries have their own style of Tuk Tuk! I think Bmth should invent the convertible Tuk Tuk! It would be a hit for journeys back after a night out..) We unsurprisingly get dropped at a holiday resort that wanted our business, but it's expensive and we know that Vang Vieng is really cheap so we trudge wearily towards town in search of our own accommodation. We go on for what...

So this is where the North Vietnamese really start to annoy me ( I think Hanoi was named by tourists as the people here 'Hanoi' the hell out of you…) As we step on our 24 hour bus - yes a whole night and day on the same bus - half way down we find a row of seats with tons of legroom. "Too good to be true!" one voice is telling me, "Sod it, there's legroom, sit here!" says the other voice, so we did. More westerners get on and are all directe...