On the way, almost

It's way too late and I've just finished packing.

I've got just enough kip left to have breakfast at a cafe downtown and buy a bottle of water for the plane.

It feels like I'm on my way already, despite having to spend most of the day in the new (and as previously discussed) rather horrible Bangkok airport.

Apparently it used to be a swamp full of snakes - doesn't seem to have undergone much of a transformation, it's just that now getting bitten costs a whole lot more...

Here's one last picture from Vientiane for you (though there are a few more I'll post once I get home)



I quite like the juxtaposition here: communism and a 'do not pass' sign. I wonder if the government of Laos is secretly trying to say something...