Kieran: Sa bai dee! We have now been in Luang Prabang, Northern Laos for 5 days and never want to leave! It's a fantastic place. Our stay got off to the ideal start when we stumbled upon a place called Utopia, which is a bar built on stilts in the middle of the forest overlooking the Nam Khan river. If there is a bar in the world with a better setting and location i'd like to pay it a visit. Our only issue initially was with the bugs. Emma seemed to be partic...

Kieran: Hey up. Well, i'm not sure our blog got off to the best of starts- not only was there Emma's 'typos' (spelling mistakes), she also omitted our visit to the YAS MARINA CIRCUIT, only home to the brand new ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX no less, as well as housing the ridiculously star trekky Yas hotel and the FERRARI WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK!! Thank you again to Barbara for putting us up and getting our trip off to such an enjoyable start. We arrived in Chiang Mai to...

Emma: Well, I just wrote a long blog entry and something happened and it deleted itself. I'm not going to lie, I'm gutted. Anyway, some good news finally - Our flight was on time and arrived EARLY! The weather is fantastic (no sand storms this time!) Spent the last two days galavanting around and kipping. To summarise : We arrived early morning, had a kip and then Barbara took us to a champagne lunch in a revolving restaurant overlooking Abu Dhabi - what a...