Sleep Inn Airport Udon Thani

... Et je me suis fais plaisir ! Un verre de blanc un peu sec et bien frais comme apéro avec une mise en bouche légère. Puis excusez moi du peu, un filet de boeuf au fromage crémeux (de la crème fraîche en fait) au calvados sur son lit de gratin dauphinois ! et bien ça requinque ! J'aurais bien pris un verre de rouge avec mais ils ont servit si vite que je n'avais pas fini mon blanc. Comme ça, ça m'a coûté moins cher (c'est quand même raisonnable 20€ en tout ...

Heute war es dann soweit, nach einem ungewollten weit**en Tag in Chiang Mai, machten wir uns dann mal wied** auf zum Bust**minal in best** Hoffnung diesmal einen benutzbaren Platz zu bekommen. Morgends war Nax schonmal mit dem Fahrrad zum Bust**minal zu fahren um uns** Ticket umzubuchen und das hatte anscheinend auch geklappt. Um 18 Uhr waren wir dann also wied** an d** Busstation. Uns ...

... closed the door, thankful I have been taking anti-malaria pills. I awoke again shortly after to one of the loudest claps of thunder I have ever heard. Rain was pouring down outside and in our room as well. The roof had partially collapsed outside our room and was coming through the roof at an alarming rate. Lighting and loud thunder continued and the people who owned the place frantically tried to fix the roof outside our door. We fell back ...

... the bikes and rode some more. We stopped at a Phu Kradung National Park and got some great views of the valleys around us. Back on the bikes we hit some almost dirt roads with massive pot holes and cracks. My back suffered a lot and when we (eventually) stopped for petrol I got off and hobbled into the pickup. We arrived by the Mekong river around sunset and had a good meal. I fell asleep quickly after wards and we still had a few hours of driving left (good job ...

Laos, land of a gazillion bends in the road. Seriously. The Cousan road to West Cork is a walk in the park compared to this Country. The 6 hour journey from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng was, well,.... interesting. Around every bend, there was another, and another and another.... you get the idea, lets just say you wouldnt want to be travelling on a full stomach!. Its wasnt too bad until the fog ...

... on how she didn't even understand the nature of the one occurring that day. I turned around and clarified that it was indeed a holiday...meaning that all the government offices would be closed...even those that were abroad. Come to find out that it was the Substitute for Royal Ploughing Ceremony Day (what?????) Since the 60-day visa takes two full day sot obtain that left us with a decision. We could either ...

... d seen an advert for a sculpture park a bit out of town that look fab, so we grabbed a map and headed in that general direction. Nong Khai is what I imagine Thailand to have looked like before us tourists ruined it. It's very Thai, we didn't see hardly any farangs at all the whole day, it was great. We just saw Thai people going about there business and lots of Monks in their familar Orange robes. Everyone is much more friendly than in other places in ...

... Streets were littered with playing cards and it was unclear how all these cards arrived there. Our own deck had 4 duplicate cards - maybe it was for luck? I can't imagine how watching two people play rummy could amuse anyone else other than the players but at one point a man made a motion to join us. Unfortunately, the language barrio prevented us from having him join us. I wish he could have showed us a few of his card games. That would have been a fantastic cultural exchange.

... checked into the fabulous Vayakorn, we were told we could only have the room for one night, but we assumed that they had so many cancellations on a regular basis that it wouldn't be a problem (we knew that this occurred because we'd called them a number of times to check on rooms - rooms which later became available after people canceled their reservations). Regrettably, this was not to be the case this time around, so we were forced to search for new digs ...

Hi 16/01/2007 Today we went with a minibus to Vientiane, the capital. I met a woman, 42 years old, Rose Roberts, a gardner from middle England. We went together to the hotel she knew(haysoke g.h $12 a room - not cheap, but nice and clean, with a.c), then we bought tickets for tomorow (she goes to Hanoi, I to Bankok) and ate. Afterward we took a tuk-tuk (7.5 nis each, 1 directon!) to the unusual pagoda outside the old-city: it is so nice, it worth the money. On ...