Another photo brought to you NOT from Ukraine!
In May 2004, Mr Moi and I managed to get a month off from both our places of employment - at the same time! This is a miracle in the modern Australian workplace.
We embarked on a trip to Thailand, where we planned to meander around and unwind. The problem was that all the other tourists in Thailand did not help us unwind. They made us wound up.
So we escaped Thailand, and went to the serene town of Luang Prabang in Laos, on the banks of the mighty Mekong River.
Luang Prabang is beautiful - filled with French colonial architecture, glittering white and gold temples, and lots of cute little monks in their saffron robes. As a UNESCO world heritage listed city, the look and feel of the place won't be changing anytime soon.
But the best thing about it was the other tourists were generally nice people. They weren't druggies, they weren't thugs. They just wanted to visit a beautiful place like us and unwind. We even had a beer with a rather adventurous 50-something Aussie couple (adventurous because they flew Lao Aviation).
This photo was taken from one of the plastic-chair-and-table stalls some enterprising folk set up on the banks of the Mekong. I love this photo because it depicts all things tropical - sunset, water, palm trees - but it's nowhere near a beach.
Our ritual every afternoon was to buy a bottle of BeerLao, share it quickly, then light a mozzie coil and pop it in the empty bottle under the table. And we enjoyed a couple more beers with this view... and no mosquito bites.
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