Hi there! Another message from Luang Prabang, a small town in the northern part of Laos. While the government in the Netherlands will be central afterall, the americans retreat from Iraq and Windows Vista hits the market, life in Laos goes on like usual. Workin in the ricefields, building houses, renewing roofs, going to the market. Yes, quite a difference again, even with Vietnam. Laos is apparently one of the least developed countries, but compared to Cambodia it comes across me as a more wealthy nation.
The weather here wasn’t that good, but it could be worse. Heavy weather now in Holland: big storms blowing away trucks from the roads! I hope everybody survived and is now reading this while enjoying a nice hot cup of coffee or tea. If you’re not, maybe you should. I would. One of the things I miss the most from back home? Good proper D.E. coffee. As most coffee here is sweet instant-coffee, it tastes just like that.
Hi everybody! Greetings from a cloudy, rainy and cold Vietnam. That is right, after weeks of no rain and sunshine the weather has finally turned around. A little bit surprised and unprepared I was. Having only a single long pair of jeans and one sweater. But it seems this will be the weather for the next days, and as I’m traveling up north it will be even colder. Although cold ofcourse will still be about 20 degrees.
!!Happy New Year to everybody!! At least for the ones that did celebrate it. Since the vietnamese people use a different calendar they celebrate newyear on next 19 feb! But that didn’t stop them from organising a big newyear party anyway. So I witnessed the ending of 2006 and the birth of 2007 this year without oliebollen, but with loempia’s. No oudejaarsconference, but a show of traditional vietnamese dances and music.
I hope everybody had a nice christmas! My christmas this year was a very quiet one. As you maybe know, most people Cambodia are buddhists. So this means that christmas is not really celebrated here. Occassionaly you’ll see a tree with lights in it, or a kid wearing a santa-hat. But that’s about it, and most of it are for the tourists anyway. So I spent my christmas days doing sightseeing in the surroundings of Battambang,_ _the 2nd biggest city in Cambodia.
