Asian Pavilion Hotel Vientiane

... not eased up on just cause I'm a westener. Ok so I'm a biased after the places I've come from, especailly after India but regarless I think I'm really gonna like Laos. And I was worried about finding internet but I'm for the first time since Bali on free WiFi and it's pretty good and quick too. Things might change once I'm out of the capital but for now I'm very happy. So I don't want you to think I didn't enjoy India cause I really did and would ...

... French mansions. Saffron-robed monks can be seen at every corner, hanging their wash out to dry or having lunch in the courtyard of the pagoda. The pace is slow and laid-back, so we'll be kicking back here for a few days, splurging away in our guesthouse at $8.50 a night. No TV, no A/C, no telephone, no PC... just a soft bed with a ceiling fan to cool us down, surrounded by warm, dark wood on the walls and floor, with shuttered windows and ...

... on all the gossip!!<br><br>Thinking of you all.<br><br>Now for the shout outs:<br><br>Shakeel &#8211; thanks for the email, we have now spoken to mum.<br><br>Smells &#8211; please keep me posted!!!!<br><br>Sanjay Patel &#8211; thanks for keeping in touch &#8211; its nice to know you&#8217;re ok!!!!<br><br>Gary &#8211; will do our best re: Fiji, would be good to see you.<br><br>Zoe &#8211; Hope you&#8217;re cool &#8211; how&#8217;s it being back at work? Kisses to Baby Ben from me!

... and from Udon Thani, mini buses offer a 40 minute transfer to Nong Khai. An alternative is to take the rail service that runs every evening from Bangkok to Nong Khai.<br><br> Contact :<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding ...

... small children and playing in the rain/mud when a monsoon type weather descended and the trapeze. I should definetly drop out of uni and join the circus, that's how much fun it was. Literally just a trapeze over the river that you could swing very very dangerously back and forth on (again health and safety is an alien concept to the Laos community) then drop terrifyingly into the water, screaming all the way. (small note, I am so so sorry mum and dad ...

... experience. I got to see parts of the town that I wouldnt have seen if I lived here for years. Prior to the race, 1 to 3 people go out with a bag chalk and set up this trail. They make different signs with the chalk that tell you...in a round about way, which way to go. Running from chalk spot to chalk spot was exciting and thrilling, but the scenery that those chalk spots took us to almost stopped me in my tracks several times. The trail took us through 2 or 3 Buddhist monasteries, where ...

... br> Work was interesting this week because we were building our base of knowledge about the laws we were going to be working with. The real drama of the week was the housing situation. It was actually a kind of sad process because a lot of feelings got hurt and it was frustrating because some people wanted to live together and everyone else felt excluded...it could have been handled so much better. But, it is finished and I found an apartment today and it is in a fun ...

... was a must for Charlie who had been working like hell the following weeks as he was switching jobs and needed relaxation.<br>The manager of the massage center (who kind of liked me) agreed to take us out to a good restaurant then nice bars. After a few beers in a bar I managed to escape from the nice (but quite enormous) lady and we finished the night ...

... and allegedly carried suicide pills, flew one and a half times the number of air sorties flown over Vietnam (over 580,000 in total). This meant an average of one planeload of bombs dropped on Laos every eight minutes, twenty four hours a day, for nine years. The cost of this, at least in monetary terms, was $2 million per day. In 1970 Ric********** authorised massive B-52 carpet-bombing strikes on this genteel nation in order to obliterate large tracts of the countryside ...