Hi Dave and Steve, Haven't been to udon for a drink with you guys and Larry for ages, been real busy with the new job in Vientiane. Really enjoying it actually makes a refreshing change from sepon, building a pool at home with the redundancy money to.

Sadly, they certainly do go looking for bombs for scrap. its high tensile and gets a good price. Pretty tempting if your a subsistance farmer.Its all well and good when they find exploded shrapnel but they do find a lot of bombies and try to hacksaw them open to first get the explosive, We were aske...

As far as i know Frazee, UXO LAO are a government run outfit but NGO funded. Bactec. pheonix, Milsearch and mag are all contractors who mostly get jobs from the NGO sector or hydro and mining, The outfit i work for in Lao used to use contractors but decided to go it alone, ( Under NRA regulations ) ...

Great post laan yaa mo they are an interesting bunch the Lao. ive been in laos 8 and half years now, married a Lao girl and we have 2 little Laosys ( Lao aussies) Some things about Laos still piss me off , like the rule of not driving with your headlights on in the day time, i always forget to turn ...

Lao airlines to PP if you dont mind a trip to vientiane, short flight to, It continues on to ho chi minh , cost about $200 last time i went but that might of been a promo, Also bear in mind its cheaper to buy lao airlines tickets from an agent rather than online for some obscure reason.

Thanks for the replys, normally i try to avoid Hotels calling themselves "Boutique" the place looked alright on agoda and the pool looked decent enough but as usual it looks like a bit of clever photography was applied, sent the Pannarai an email direct yesterday and got a reply this morning that th...

Cheers zidane, a swimming pools a must to entertain the nippers

Has anyone stayed here, would you recommend it ? im looking for a change , plus the Pannarai where i usually stay on trips to udon is booked solid for my dates, also how far is it in a tuk tuk from Central , not sure of the location but i think its near ton koon hotel, would that be correct ? Thanks...

Sure, will try to post up some info as I hear it

I thought the original plan was to link vientiane with Kunming . vientiane /nongkhai and on to bangkok and beyond , but that all seems to have been put on hold , Looks like savan /Lao Bao , if they get there A into G, things happen pretty slow here though , im not going to hold my breath

This article was from the 30th of june, suggesting the rail line is still planned from savavvakhet/seno to Lao Bao, nothing about the boleven plateau Construction of the US$5 billion funded Savannakhet-Laobao rail project to link the central part of Laos to Vietnam is set to kick off in December thi...

ive been using AGL on a Lao registered car for years with no problems, covers lao and thailand

Steve and nung are indeed good hosts, ive rarely left the sports bar sober on the odd occasion i get to udon for a bevvy, Always some good natured banter between the lads . Top little pub i reckon

its a hotel, should of been finished for the asem summit , dont know why it never got finished , perhaps they run out of money. Plenty of inexplicable **** goes on over here

OH One more thing , does anyone know if its possible to buy the colon cleanse stuff that you mix with watere either in nongkhai or udon thani?

if any one wants a shock google 'colon cleanse' and then click on image's. Jesus wept coxo, ive just googled that, my god, i will be having nightmares for months , I also need to loose a bit of weight gave up the smokes a few months back and the weight is just flying on now, Plenty of good advice h...

That's just one more reason why I would never buy. If and when I ever buy a house, it will be built (very inexpensively) way out in the village away from any of that. นักรบช้าง wrote: Mine will be in the middle of 40 rai. The land is already purchased and waiting. There won't be any pig farm. Seem ...

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Shado wrote: I told the wife that we should get a room there for a night

Sometimes Thai women just don't appreciate a romantic gesture.

Take the Mia Noi and report back please

Not sure what your maintenance speciality is sjp17, but it mighnt be as hard as you think to get work in your Field, Pan Aust , MMG hire a lot of farangs as do a lot of the hydro projects, ( xayaboury dam project has the green light now and an estimated 7 years completion for that job) i know from w...