Hello from Luang Prabang, Laos where I'm typing this at an internet cafe with a monk sitting at the computer next to me - how very modern! Got here this morning on a 8.45am flight from Hanoi which meant a 5.30am wake up call and another delightful drive back to the airport - not so harrowing this time as it was light and I guess I knew what to expect. Still, we must have passed about a million scooter/motorbikes with huge loads of everything from flowers, wood,...

Well, what can I say! After an 8 hour flight from Melbourne to HCMC then a 2 hour internal flight from there to Hanoi I'm stoked to say I've made it to my hotel in the Old Quarter in one piece. All good on my own, only bit was the transiting from the international airport to the domestic airport at HCMC which was quite unorganised - Vietnam Airlines provided a minibus but there seemed to be alot of confusion re bags / boarding passes etc. Nothing could have pre...