Sin chiao everyone (thats Vietnamese for hello), Sorry for being a bit quiet on the blog front for a while, its been pretty hectic and most of the places i have been have been too remote to know what a toilet is, let alone the internet. So I am now actually writing to you from Vietnam (Hanoi) but i shall quickly fill you in on the major events of the last week or so.... TUBING : this is what a lot of you have been dying to hear about. well...it lives up t...

Soooo, where did i leave you guys. most probably somewhere in Vientiane gorging on a pastry! well, while we were there we went to a buddhist art collection (although it was bacially a small temple with some old buddhist sculptures in- not very many but beautiful nontheless) and then we thought we wouls try out the local public swimming pool as we were all suffering with the mugginess that comes with the rainy season! however, poor liz cut her foot quite badly as ...

Soooo, where did i leave you guys. most probably somewhere in Vientiane gorging on a pastry! well, while we were there we went to a buddhist art collection (although it was bacially a small temple with some old buddhist sculptures in- not very many but beautiful nontheless) and then we thought we wouls try out the local public swimming pool as we were all suffering with the mugginess that comes with the rainy season! however, poor liz cut her foot quite badly as ...

hey kids, just a quick one... we all survived the hilarous 12 hour sleeper train from bangkok to Laos and once again have been met with rain. We can also verify that the welcome recieved at the border was far from...welcome. Lest, we have been assured that the lao people are some of the nicest on the planet and I think we will find that when we go further into the suburbs. We are going to have a mooch around the city today and tomorrow before heading off to the...