33. The monks want to know, if you already have everything you need, what are you looking for? February 4th 2008 (N) We planned to be 2km away from Tat Lo down the dirt track at the junction for the bus south at 8 a.m., but the time taken by the breakfast shack to produce our huge egg baguettes and half-pint of coffee meant that we arrived 5 minutes late, not sure how much of the 2-hour gap between buses was still to elapse. Amazingly, one pulled up within a minute, one of whose passengers was a man who carr ... read more
Asia » Laos » West » Vang Vieng Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more
Paula - Here we are fulfilling a long-held dream of travelling the planet. Through our travelblog have fun joining us along the way!
Nick - these are a couple of quotations that I picked up along the way:
"In German, there is a word, Kunstlerschuld, which means "artist's guilt", the emotion a painter feels over his frivolity in a world in which people work in a rut that makes them gloomy. Perhaps there is also a sort of traveler's guilt, from being self-contained, s... full info