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“Oh yeah across the road”, she said. Immediately I could tell from where she hailed and so… “Spreek je Nederlands?” “Ja, hoe weet je dat?”

I crossed into Laos and immediately set to work in finding somewhere to camp. It gets dark here by 18:00 and that doesn’t leave me with much time to even cook my food and so I chose a place not two kilometres from the border. It wasn’t great. There was stagnant water everywhere and mosquitoes buzzed about as if Christmas had just returned but at least I could sleep. Cycle touring in Laos is vastly different to Vietnam Cycling into Laos was like cycling into a different world

I had woken up every morning in the last few days of my stay in Hanoi feeling wretched. I didn’t feel ill in the conventional sense but my body just seemed depleted of energy. It never seemed to matter how much water or orange juice I had drank the night before or indeed how much food I had eaten – my body just didn’t want to do anything more than lie in bed or perhaps take a little stroll through town. Being on a 15 day visa though meant that I really did have to leave soon

Well yet again I have left it far too late in writing another post which leaves me sat on my balcony in Nong Khiaw, Laos with a completely blank mind squinting back into the past in order to try to remember what it was I actually did/accomplish back in Hanoi. Thinking back, I didn’t actually accomplish a hell of a lot but I certainly enjoyed my time there. It was a fantastic city to relax in even though the sheer number of scooters and horns can make it a little unbearable at

Not so long ago in a place not very far from here (Laos) I found myself stood outside the Vietnamese immigration hall trying to ascertain how in the hell I managed to get a puncture in the 500 metres it took me to ride through no man’s land. Some things, I decided just didn’t make sense. But at long last China was over with. China was finished. I could write an entire post on my thoughts about that little ordeal but I shall leave that for another day as I’m writing this now w