After finding out my exciting university news yesterday morning, I thought that there was no better way to celebrate than to admire another Mekong sunset before heading to the top pizza restaurant on trip advisor and indulging myself. I was later joined by some fellow travellers when the waitress gave us her very own homemade Lao-Lao concoction...(oh go on then, just because I'm celebrating...). Today I spent yet another day on a bus, but this time "V.I.P"....although I think Laos must have a completely different meaning to this phrase because to me, a bus with massive holes in the roof, broken seats, and curtains that the locals use to wipe their greasy hands and faces with should not be classed as V.I.P. I've sat on so many strange bus journeys that I now don't even flinch when 10 street vendors hop on for 2 minutes, shoving meat sticks and chicken foetus kebabs in everyone's faces before fleeing so quickly that you wonder whether you were daydreaming. I was devastated when my headphones ran out of battery today, as for those of you who know me well, you'll know that a journey without music for me is like a bath without water. After arriving in Pakse this afternoon, I found myself walking around yet another market, hoping I could find a mid-afternoon snack (it was a food market after all), but it's safe to say that not one part of me was feeling peckish as I manoeuvred my feet around fish flapping across the pavement, spit balls plummeting to the ground, and guts of all kinds spread across the walkway. Never have I regretted the sandal decision so much. Dinner this evening was in a lovely "motorbike crash view" restaurant where the menu was so long that I got bored before I had gotten to the end...