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A Catalogue of Disasters, or Lost in Laos

Important:  If anyone finds our bag please contact us at nickyvaux@yahoo.co.uk or telephone us at our hotel in Vientiane on Laos (021) 212 682.  Many thanks, Nicky. So Laos is nice.  It hasn't exactly been nice to us, but its nice.  This last week's catala(o)gue of disasters: Adam gave himself two black eyes and a possible fractured nose whilst plummeting off a zipwire from a great height.  He has spent the last few days looking remarkably like a congested elephant. We both suffered diabolical alcohol-poisoning after consuming a lethal mix of snake juice and stolen Scottish whisky. A gigantic hand-sized hairy spider made its home in our hut.  I discovered it in a distressingly myopic fashion. I went completely off-the-radar bonkers for a few days in Luang Prabang, thanks to the impressive side-effects of some prescription drugs.  We lost the bag off the back of the bike, somewhere very remote along the highway....