Laos bound via dodgy airlines

First of all belated birthdays to Shak, Martin and Mike, who all had their birthdays this month. Happy birthday and sorry for the delay in getting this to you.
Also it would appear I can read my blog again and any comments posted.

Jun 15:
I have now moved countries and am in Laos.
Well I booked my flight on Laos Airlines. Who don’t publish their safety records, according to the lonely planet. And I thought Aeroflot was dodgy….
I was on the same plane and paid $12 less than some others who would have bought their ticket from Vietnam airlines probably thinking it was the safer option and hang the costs... They share the route between the airlines and so would hvae flown Laos airlines anyway. Hee hee.

Anyway the food was ok. Yes we got a little sandwich and cake and soft drink. Very civilized. Although, the seats were quite threadbare and the plane had definitely seen better days and been round the block and airspace a few times too many.

I met Yaniv from Israel; he had the extreme good fortune to be sitting next to a wonderful Irish woman, with a very sunny disposition. Yes it is me I am talking about… sod off to anyone who says otherwise. We had a good chat and a taxi from the airport; it was a young car of 25 yrs. And the driver was only twice that.
I had arranged to meet Alex by the fountain at 1.30. Managed to find this fountain in the capital city of Laos and still have time to order a fresh lemon juice and cake before Alex arrived early. Yes that is how small it is. It was fab to see Alex. It is such a shame he could only take a week of Laos and was on his way home or that I had not got there earlier. But we went to view the symbol of Laos, a beautiful Stupa and had a great chat, as we walked the 4km. We got a tuk tuk back and I said my goodbyes again to Alex as he left for the bus to Bangkok.
Vientiane is really the cutest, smallest capital. It is smaller than Kinsale or even chiswick. It is so hard to believe it is a capital city. The people are lovely. They don't use their horn. So it is very peaceful. There are mostly cars and not even many of those. There certainly aren't hundreds of motorbikes. I like it a lot.

At 7pm I met Yaniv for dinner. We walked around Vientiane and stopped by the river at a street stall. We had a fresh coconut each, I had to have it in a glass iced. I prefer it cold. It was so nice, then found a really nice Laos restaurant serving Laos and western food. He is a really friendly chap and great conversationalist, so we ended up chatting over dinner till 11.30. Really late for me these days.
Jun 16th. Had a really lazy day today. Stayed in bed till 10. Haven’t done that in months. Then had my hair done roots were showing and the hairdresser pointed out how awful my hair was and she was right so had a cut too. She is from Madagascar but her husband is on a 4year project here in Vientiane. She gave the most amazing head massage I have ever had in a hairdressers or ever, and all for $21.

Well off for another day have fun.
Sabadii