Aqua Aquamarina Hotel Santa Susana

... br>27/11/2009 - 29/11/2009: LUANG NAMTHA<br>29/11/2009 - 30/11/2009: NONG KIAU<br>30/11/2009 - 03/12/2009: LUANG PRABANG<br>03/12/2009 - 05/12/2009: VIENTIANE<br>05/12/2009:<br>Night train from Vientiane to Bangkok<br>06/12/2009 - 07/12/2009: BANGKOK<br>07/12/2009 - 08/12/2009: HONG KONG<br>08/12/2009: Flight Hong Kong to Barcelona, via Munich<br><br>Next stop...HONG KONG.<br><br>

Sleeping on the sand fully clothed was a new one for us and were forced to wake up by the sun rise. As the sun got higher in the sky we seemed to get more and more lazy until we just decided to stay another night. I´m 22 and still havent managed to learn the sun tan lotion lesson. As a result I now look like the inside of a water melon ...

Hi all, Yes I am alive. Sorry about the late replies, I´ll fill in the last couple of days later. I´m currently in Barcelona, getting bitten alive by insects. After leaving a french chateau at 8am we finally arrived in spain at 830pm. A very long day of driving. Tonight´s our night off as the last 2 days has seen us drinking too much, not sleeping for long and dancing til the clubs and pubs close. We are off to Flemingo dancing ...

After I arrived in Barcelona I dropped my stuff off in the hotel and headed out. I was not expecting to do any sightseeing but I was looking for one particular address to buy a modernism pass at. When I got out of the metro, I found myself opposite this amazing building. I took some photos of it from across the road, bought a map and a book about Gaudi from a street kiosk, but as I was heading to this address ...

... to Berlin and have all of our train travel behind us. After our cruel disappointment, we drowned our sorrows in Picasso by visiting the Museu Picasso. It was really, really cool -- the museum had a lot of art from Picasso´s early years, so we got to see how he developed artistically from about age 15 onward. Today we had a Gaudi day! Gaudi is a famous Barcelonian Modernist architect who designed a lot of buildings here -- houses, churches, gardens ...

... got a new turtle. Then we did something I usually scoff upon - a tour bus around the city. We even bought a 2 day pass. I will never scoff again. This was tremendously helpful to get the layout of the city and find out there is a Starbucks on every corner in Spain, too. We celebrated that night with dinner in an Irish pub. The next day was our big tourist day, which started with buying the obligatory Spanish guide book. Good job, Rough Guides. We followed this ...

... in Catalunya, another of Spain's historically and culturally separate regions that (I think) would also like its independence. In the middle of the 20th century, the Spanish dictator Franco imposed severe restrictions on the expression of anything having to do with these unique and interesting cultures, and there were many atrocities committed in the name of nationalism. Part of our bike tour around the city focused on these ...

... The cobblestoned streets where cleaned day and night and hosed down so by the morning they were fresh! Fantastic vegetarian fast food- felafal store..we ate there a couple of times and vegetarian restaurants too! We visited the Cathederal which was breathtaking - to be finished in 2020 so we may have to go back to see it then! Took a swim in the mediteranian - again ...

... better than it could be. I couldn't sleep and I needed to use the restroom for 5 hours before I got up the nerve to wake up the two men sitting next to me so I could leave my window seat. The transition to my next plane in London went smoothly. I was the only one in my class scheduled for the flight, but I recognized someone about halfway through the flight. He missed his connection, so ...

Barcelona is extremely touristy. The Sants train station is packed with tourists. The first thing you see coming up the escalator are the yellow arches of Mcdonalds. Internet terminals are plenty and there is even a Hostelling International office in the station. You however do not get the full impact until you get to La Rambla, a long pedestrian street that stretches from the Plaza Espana to the water front. The street is packed 24x7 with backpackers, families, children, drunks ...