Today we woke early at about seven ish but were feeling pretty lazy. We were debating a cycle out to the 'blue lagoon' but on researching a bit further we thought otherwise. It was going to cost to hire the bikes... Cross the bridge... Entrance... Torch hire.. Potential guide and so on and we weren't that desperate to see it that we wanted to spend the money. I instead wanted to go shopping!!! We headed out early and headed to our old haunt for breakfast and...

Today was a sad day... Our final morning with Kratos. We woke early and lazily checked mail and read the news before having a cup of flower tea on the veranda with Kratos. His bus was at one so we decided to chill out with him this morning and enjoy a final brunch together. We headed out after everyone was showered and he was packed up and checked out, arriving at our favourite little place across the bridge just after ten. We ordered some food... Me and Steve...

Today was a write off.... Dear livers We promise we shall never drink large quantities of local homemade spirits again. Yours Steven and Laura

Today we woke surprisingly early and felt really good after our exercise yesterday, Kratos hadn't slept well as his shoulders were throbbing but we had the opposite effect and slept like babies glad for the exercise. We all met up and headed to a new place for breakfast... We were wanting a chilled morning so found a quite restaurant and wandered in. Here we ordered some rice soup and shakes and chatted non stop rubbish like normal while reminiscing on the prev...

The start of a new month would be celebrated by tubing, the backpackers rite of passage here in Lao. Kratos and I headed out for breakfast early with Laura grabbing a bite to eat a bit later on. Laura had arranged to meet the Australian girl Kate we kept bumping into to join our tubing group. She should of gone with some of her friends yesterday but fell poorly at the last minute. Unfortunately she had to leave tomorrow so this was her last chance to tube, someth...