Late start where I discovered the girls had crashed in my room. Should have packed pyjamas.
A very comfortable flight on Thai airways got us to Chang Mai. From the airport we took a cramped two hour cab ride to the border where we stayed the night in a huge teak manor house overlooking the Mekong river. We could hear a huge party going on over the river in Laos so decided to have one of our own starting on the balcony. Suitably refreshed we headed to the only bar in town to watch the locals attempting Karaoke. This was pretty painful to listen to but the local BeerLaos turned out to be a decent anaesthetic.
Opposite the bar there was a chap making reading glasses from bottles while you waited. They seemed to come in two strengths: Coke or Sprite. Shame he wasn’t using the BeerLaos bottles – could have blamed all sorts on the beer goggles…
Back at the hotel we discovered quite how thin the walls were when the night was pierced every few minutes by the sound of screaming and “What the hell is that?” followed by giggles as people discovered quite how many insects were sharing their beds.
