Wandering Scotsman

Just incase you are bored my archive links on the right hand side of my blog are now working, and there are new archives by country (more to be added)! There is also a contact email address on the right hand side for those that don’t know me personally! Yaaaa!

..but so much more to see and do – even in the ones I’ve been in!

Made it through Phnom Penh and to Sihanoukville, but will type up blogs later…. struggling to find somewhere to use my USB drive…

I’ve just updated blog stories for the last few weeks, so if you are sitting at work this Monday morning (in the UK) grab a coffee, and page through the last few weeks using the links on the left. All the info on my circuit from Luang Prabang to Phonsavan (Plain of Jars), Nong Khiaw and more are there.

I’ve ran out of time for a few pics as I need to grab food, supplies, and a shower in the next hour before getting picked up for my Pakse bus!

Just emailed Jane I met at Raleigh to see if she was in Luang Prabang. Emailed her at 4.30pm with vague instructions where and when to hook up if she happened to be in town (I knew she was in the area last week), stayed online too long, and got a repply at 6pm to say ‘yeh, see you at 7pm’.

The joys of travel.

I’ve trashed my new camera! I’ve only had it for 4 weeks (or since I was in KL, whenever that was). I was standing at Phonsavan bus station, and had been for 4.5 hours waiting on our bus in the bloody cold night (seriously – proper cold, and who sent their fleece home?! Thank god for Merino wool!). Our bus came along, the 6 of us (the rest I just met at the station) wandering how we were going to get on. We had all night in this thing, and it was stacked to the gunnels with people and goods, and there were at least 4 motorbikes on the roof, along with the rest.

We were sitting there taking pictures before we jumped on, and my Canon S80 leaped out of my hand, the lens extended. After that it refused to play ball, the lend neither retracting or fully extending, meaning yet again, I’m without a small camera!

Arrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Having ran out of gas on the Thai/Myanmar border, tomorrow it’s time for me to hit Laos. I hope to catch a bus at stupid AM, catch the boat across the river, then spend 2 days cruising down to Luang Prabang to hook up with my sister. I wanted to head north but timing dictates otherwise for the moment. I fancied the speedboat option and doing it in a day, but there was the matter of warnings about accidents, death and capsizing by hitting logs etc…..

More soon….. time to step back in time a little bit after sitting on my arse online for much of today. I moved my flight to Aus from mid December, but the first one I could get was 6th Frickin’ February…..so that’s me in Asia til then! Bummer ;->

(actually it is a bit for my ‘planning’ but hey ho…now 5 or so weeks in Aus, 7-8 in NZ from mid March, then 5 weeks to whistle stop if from Japan to South Korea through China for my Bangkok flight home…if it happens like that!)

Just a quick welcome to my recent ‘readers’ from Spain and Ghana! I’m guessing the Ghana crowd are from Raleigh so I hope your expedition is going well and you are enjoying it as much as I did!

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