Merry Christmas to all of you out there and back home from Vang Vieng in Laos!

It's wonderful here and in fact I am very glad to spend it here, rather than in Southern Thailand at the moment! So for those of you worried: we are perfectly fine and felt nothing from this massive earthquake! Thanks god. It's truly a tragedy and I feel deeply with all the people that got caught in this catastrophe and are still struggling down there at the moment!
I passed a wonderful Christmas in Vientiane! Christmas Eve I spent with Karen and her friends in a French restaurant in Vientiane where we got served a delicious 7 course French dinner. What a delight after my upset stomach :-) Yesterday morning Elodie arrived safely in Vientiane and after picking her up at the airport and some airy tuk tuk rides (the local motorbike pick up taxis) the Christmas marathon continued at another of Karen's friends house, where we had a really chill relaxed Christmas day brunch right by the Mekong. Thanks again Karen!

Great times :-)
Today, we made our way out of Vientiane on the last two 'seats' in the VIP bus to Vang Vieng! Well, the seats where small plastic chairs they put up for us in the gangway between the regular bus seats ... but we arrived and had a great afternoon watching the sunset with a cool bear at a lame riverfront bamboo bar! Tonight we'll be checking out the full moon party! So merry Christmas again to all of you back home!! We'll be heading out east towards the Vietnam border tomorrow.