13/4/2011 Today was another day spent on a bus well four buses to be exact. We travelled all the way from Vang Vieng in Laos to Chiang Mai in Thailand. It was a total journey of over twenty seven hours and this was not done on the nice comfortable bus like we the one we got from Hanoi. They were your run of the mill buses and one of them we got on only had a wooden bench for a seat. The defining moment came when a Thai guy got given a plastic garden chair to s...

27/3/2011 This was our last day in New Zealand and after watching yet more rugby we went to meet one of Luci's friends who was having a birthday party for her 40th. It was in a Karaoke place and the singers were pretty good, so Kirsty and I didn't go up for a shot. After this we packed up and went for a last dinner with all the friends we had made in Auckland. It was really nice to have dinner with them and get some good laughs before we left. As Luci dropped ...