We slept really well last night because we are back in a room with air con, we got up late. This place has free coffee all day so we got up and sat drinking coffee for a little while until we went back to the room to chill. I sent a message to Sam and Steph to ask them where they had got to stay and if they fancied meeting up for a drink later on. We went out to explore the place and came across a place we had read about called Utopia, a little different from the...

We were up early and packed, collected our sandwiches for the journey and headed down to the pier. James got some more food and water to take with us because we have now been told it could be a nine to ten hour journey! We went down and got onto the boat going to Luang Prabang, it was a different boat to yesterday. This one had some softer seats and some wooden hard seats, unfortunately we did get hard seats but at least we were sitting next to each other. There ...

We got up, showered and dressed for 7.00am and went to the little room where breakfast was being served. We were given a bowl of rice soup with some sort of meat in it. It was disgusting! James did well though eating a bowl and a little of mine. We sat with the two girls from yesterday, Sam and Steph, they couldn't eat it either. After not eating it we went and bought a cup of coffee each which was much better. We got our things together and waited for the minibu...

We were up early this morning and down for breakfast, we then had plenty of time to get our bags properly organised for the trip as we were getting picked up between 10 and half past. We then checked out and waited for the bus, apparently it had come for us at 9.30am but obviously we had not been downstairs ready. We sat until 10.20am and the bus came, there was only just enough space with me taking the front seat. We then drove round for a good 20-30minutes to f...

We did some organising this morning as we're leaving for Laos tomorrow. We got to face time Louisa, Neil and the kids as it was morning for them, afternoon for us which was great. We then sorted things that we wanted to parcel up and send home, and write a few postcards. We set off for a walk to the post office which was only a little further down our street and sent our postcards and parcel. The postage system here is so easy compared to India! After this we vis...