I had a last wander around beautiful Luang Prabang buying momentos before catching my flight to Hanoi. I bought my ticket on the Vietnam Airlines website but my flight turns out to be with Laos Airlines. The two are connected somehow. And the plane is the same make as the one that crashed in bad weather recently. Not helping was some gossip circulating amongst the locals in Luang Prabang that the weather wasn’t the problem!
The flight was fine, just one hour, and I arrive in Hanoi just before 6pm.
angusmccoll 
Look out, you’re wandering back into writing in the present tense! I liked your Laos stories.Enjoy Hanoi. Getting steamy here.
Oh, thanks for the warning! I’m getting tired of blogging 😦
You’ll have an exta couple of million people to write about now.
A fantastic read mate. What an adventure!
Thanks Cam. Laos has got under my skin in a big way.
FYI: The plugs in Hanoi are same as south Vietnam, two round prongs, not the blade shape.