WHY I HAVE NOT BEEN BLOGGING + Summary of Mekong trip

We have been back from our Thailand/Laos/Malaysia roadtrip for a week now and some of you must be wondering why I have not written anything about our wonderful experience!

I actually kept a little journal whilst on the trip (on the super-duper small Kojinsha mini-computer that mum got me), but Stephan spilled a glass of milk onto the computer at Starbucks in KL and the computer is pretty much fried! Photos and journal with it! Computer is now in the repair shop and I am keeping my fingers crossed that they will manage to resurrect the computer from the dead!

In summary, the trip was great, but we went a little too quickly through the countries and did not really have time to settle down into a routine anywhere. It was therefore quite tiring in the end. The boys were really great on the treacherous bus and train rides but were not terribly enthusiastic over the temple visits.

LuangPrabaeng was of course the highlight of the trip and we stayed there for 5 days. Everywhere else was pretty much a blur...... chiangmai, chiangrai, chiangsen, goldentriangle, huayxai, vientiane, Nongkhe, penang, KL!

The 2nd highlight was Penang where we stayed with Jasmin (my knight in shining armor from the tsunami) and his beautiful family. Kids had a whale of a time with Johan and Farah! We went to the Penang Club for dinner (site of the big accident). It was a pretty windy day and Nic kindda freaked out and made a fuss about having dinner on the patio. :) LOL

We met tons of people on the trip. Old friends that we had planned to meet (Olivier in Bangkok; Joe in Chiangmai, Jasmin in Penang; David, Veron & Michelin gang in KL..........), old friends that we did not plan to meet (running into Molly & Rodriguez from Crete on the streets of Luangprabaeng was quite the surprise!), new friends that we made (the taiwanese-thai couple that are migrating to brazil, little pascal from ThongBay, Pom & Richard from Nongkhe, the American-Laotian and his war stories, the Thai boy that spoke chinese, Sheila and Neils from Holland and the countless people that welcomed us into their homes, gave us food, shared stories with us and played with us. I think the people that we met along the way was what made the trip so special!

Anyway, I hope that the computer man will be able to salvage some photos from the computer and I will be able to post them later. :)