Yesterday was eventful. We left our guesthouse at 6:45am, got a taxi for 3 hours over the worst roads in the history of the world, ever with a maniacal driver with a death wish. He was clearly harbouring an unfulfilled childhood aspiration to become a rally car driver and had eventually settled on the next best thing-terrorising tourists at high speeds on severely potholed "roads". He overtook anything and everything, thumping his horn for all he was worth (most ...

Argh life!! This last 24 hours has been absolutely crazy... Getting used to being back in Thailand and trying to run around like crazy people sorting out last minute souvenirs, organising transport to the airport and getting our head around the fact that we're flying to Sri Lanka for 2 weeks. As if that wasn't enough we still couldn't get hold of my elusive uncle. We tried to hunt him down at work where we were informed that my oh-so-reliable uncle had gone ...

You'll never guess where we are! Well, actually you might if you had the foresight to look at the little interactive map thingummy on the homepage but anyway we're back in beautiful Bangkok... The last coupla days have pretty much been a nightmare. We've been desperately trying to change our flights to Sri Lanka but to no avail. Everything that could go wrong has. We've had phone lines down, internet down, closed office hours, unreturned emails, workers on l...

Well, turns out we're not in Laos tonight...Who wasn't paying attention when we were told our travel itinerary? Yes, well, never mind. Anyway, from what I can work out, we had the 6 hour minivan trip today (well obviously I know that much), now we have an overnight stop here in Chiang Khong (aka The Middle of Nowhere, seriously there's about 3 shops a couple of bars/restaurants/guesthouses and the obligatory random teepee on the side of the road made from straw.....

Hey people, Just to let you know we're alive etc. I did actually spend 3 hours writing up the trek we did a couple of days ago but the damn computer deleted the whole lot, including loaded photos and I damn near killed myself. I will write it up again eventually but really, really can't be arsed right now. Although I will say riding elephants was amazing. We're off to Laos tomorrow morning: 6 hour minivan ride then 2 days on the slowboat down the Mekong...