Arrived here yesterday after finally escaping Vang Vieng, probably stayed 1 night too many, but did manage to catch the football and the rugby. It was great to be able to watch the rugby in front of some over confident french guy who disappeared sharpish at the final whistle. Vientiane is by far the busiest of the 3 places we have visited in Laos, but I guess this is what you would expect of a capital city. Despite being a capital city there is not much to do here, and on arrival yesterday we tried to catch on some Z's in our very sweaty room. Myself, Neal and Dan had all said that we would all have a night off the booze, but again we couldn't resist the temptation of a few Beer Laos. We bumped
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