Sunday, 26 February 2012

The slow boat

Next day we got up early n went to the two most crazy people I've ever met to get sandwiches for the boat they were so funny! We got our sandwiches with 14 free bananas as ya do like, and ben had a shot of snake whiskey for brekkie haha! We headed over to the boat for our two day slow boat journey. The boat ended up leaving two hours late because they wanted to cram as many as possible in the boat our seats here near the front with lots of leg room so it was a good seat.

The madness began.....we met a gang of Irish n we all know what happens when ya meet a gang of Irish people
Haha! The slow boat turned into a booze cruise everyone was drinking dancing playing the guitar singing everything from Ed Sheeran to what shall we do with the drunken sailor hah! It was so much fun we didn't even know the boat had moored as we where having that much of a laugh! So we arrived in Pak Beng where we met our good friend buffalo man aka Gareth! We went into Pak Beng the smallest town ever...we went for tea Gareth had two teas n ben n he both had the buffalo! They loved it! So the fun began again we got singing some Laos pop songs attayaa attayaa! So we felt it would be a good cultural exchange to swap attayaa for a bit of coldplay...the locals loved it haha! The quietest town in Laos was blaring with coldplay from bens iPhone haha!

Next day we woke up to get back on the boat...we also met another guy called Yugi a Dutch lad who had fell off his motorbike four days before and had big cuts all over his legs so that was the conversation starter. Yugis English was brill and me Ben n Gareth decided our country is really bad as we cant talk any other language and everyone else can talk at least two! We felt kinda stupid really n we said it will be our missin to come home speaking at least the basics in Thai!

Soooo it began again...the whiskey..flower vodka...guitars and singing haha it was great!! It was here we met some more good friends! Fred and albertina..Justin and jade...jack all the Irish And Jd and kale and team Sweden!! It was a fun day ben played the hardest card game with team Sweden (a gang of Swedish lads who resemble a boyband all in co ordinated illuminous shorts hah) We sailed for another seven hours today and when we arrived in luang prabang the hill we were met with was unreal. People were rolling down it backpacks still on! Straight into the Mekong! After a mad scramble a tuk tuk ride and some bartering with a hotel owner while completely intoxicated we'd made it! We went out for some fried rice to settle our drunken heads and the town closed at half eleven so after meeting the Irish again we sorted the next nights meeting point. Back the room we went for some much needed kip.

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