scoobydoo

using chrome? i haven't looked back since downloading it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ritLaGCPcxE

not really in your sphere fj as in a 5/10 minger, but i thought i'd post anyway

yep whats a gap yar?

eh,homesick...not in laos?

thats a healthy rant. enjoyed it!

i make up for the asshole brits

There are three forces of Power in Laos, Political, Army and Police.

 

Police used to run Vang Vieng's, ahem, illegal aspects. Like drugs and unlicensed bars on and in the river. Also other services, like "yes he really did slip and hit his head on a boulder whilst completely sober". And "yes this really is just a good alcoholic drink with no added hallucinogens or poisons".

 

Because numbers of tourists were starting to die, some from, shall we say, 1st world countries, which tend to think about why their youngest and brightest seen to be dying in one spot in particular, international pressure started to mount.

 

Now withholding Aid, when a country is slaughtering their own, may or may not happen. But when the Donor's own citizens are being knocked off, the money dries up very quickly.

 

Even so, it took about two years for the Political branch to gain enough support from within their own ranks and those of the Armed persuasion, to get the Constabular cadre to do something about it.

 

Fortunately, in Laos, once they decide to do something, they tend to do it. So now the place is, as I say, quite lovely, where it was not before.

 

There are buses from the Vientiane central bus station every day, early like, so check the (English) timetable on the wall the day before.. 4 hrs travel time maybe? A good guest house is Busy Bee (sorry no link, but on the main drag and just ask anyone) or there are many others. Worth going to see caves etc just out of town, swim sensibly in the cool river, even hot air balloons if you like that sort of thing...

 

Oh, and they still show 'Friends' in the pizza places, apparently white people can't live without it...

thanks for this info coss

ah ok got it, thankyou.

how come did the munters go away?bored of it?

taking the bus to vv from vientiene relatively painless?

No - now it is a pleasant and laid-back place, the hordes of Munters have gone.

 

Unless you want to go to a place full of unwashed spaced out C*nts...

er, so its good to go? second sentence lost me? ....

i want to visit vang vieng with my daughter, should we just skip it and just go straight to luang prabang?

i'm a climate refugee, most brits are

only made #15 in the ukcharts, amazing really. and had a bbc play ban, wtf

actually not bad......not a patch on the jam but a good effort

the ex and myself saw motorhead at the cambridge corn exchange years ago now.....hurt her ears !!

have any of you been to chiang khan loei ? beautiful place

http://expathotel.com/index.html

stayed here a few times late 90's.....no idea if ok now. was good value and 5 minutes from bars and beach

the religion of peace.

annabella lwin,of bow wow wow was born in burma, english mother burmese pappa.....

Writes Stickman ...

 

"The gogo guru himself, Dave The Rave, can see the ship is sinking and has left Nana Plaza, his second home for the last 16+ years. Dave has enjoyed a glorious career as a bar manager that has seen him at the helm of some of the best bars in the plaza during their heyday including Pretty Lady in the late '90s, Hollywood from the turn of the century for before he later moved on to Angelwitch and Spellbound. Is Dave the latest guy with a web presence to have turned his back on Thailand? More about Bangkok's best known bar manager in the next week or two."

 

Dave himself writes that he is moving to Patpong. Maybe the old sois will be worth going to again?

i remember pretty lady, ground floor on the left as you walk in?

hipsterism is a medical condition

the Aboriginals of the united states at least had treaty's to protect pockets of land!!

no doubt south africa was bad, but australia was no better and didn't get the same negative press/sanctions etc, why???