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Day 244 – Oh gosh, it’s early…

First day of school. Well, not for us but, in solidarity, we got up at 6.15am as well to have breakfast together at 6.45am. So far so good. After a week here, this felt really early. And I was still soooooo tired.

View from the breakfast table

View from the breakfast table

So after Michael and Lina left, we exceeded in chilling. It contained napping for most of the morning, having a lazy lunch with Michael’s home-made hummus (delicious!) and then starting to look at the Lonely Planet recommendations online to get a feel for a possible route through Oman. But yeah, all in all, we didn’t do much.

When Lina and Michael appeared again around 5.40pm, they were incrediby tired, had things to do and tests to mark so we only enjoyed the Indian take-away food before everyone headed off to their laptops/kindle and did their own thing for a bit.

Day 202 – Coffee encounters

Were on the road real early today

Were on the road real early today

Sekong had seemed incredibly sleepy last night…it didn’t get any better in the morning. Despite the fact that Lao people seem to get up at 6am to go about their day during daylight hours, the town looked positively abandoned. Also, there was no breakfast to be had here, at least not of the baguette and jam kind. To increase our chance of yet another French inspired start into the day, we packed everything on Rocinante and left the town at 7am.

Up on the plateau, it was chilly this early in the morning; for the first time in a while, I wished for something to stop the wind from getting through. We had a look for breakfast places along the road but didn’t see anything except for rice porridge. Thus, we needed to drive 80km to Paksong, the next town on the loop. The route was pretty, though. Full of views over small valleys and the opportunity to see waterfalls. So early in the day, we also had the road almost to ourselves. Continue reading →