Day 26 - Nong Khai to Khorat "Where's a good tuk-tuk driver when you need one?"

Another travelling day, so this will be short. We caught the bus from Nong Khai, near the Laos border, to Khorat, about 400 km south on the main highway to Bangkok. 6 hours and one lunch stop later we arrived and checked into our "trendy and boutique" hotel (well, that's what is says out the front of the V-One Hotel). After freshening up and researching where to go out for dinner, we decided on a place called "Cabbages and Condoms", which we had been to in Bangkok. We ventured out to the front of the hotel to find a tuk-tuk or taxi, but there were none to be found ... quite a change from everywhere else we had stayed! When we finally managed to flag one after about 10 minutes, the driver had no idea where the restaurant was, or any of the nearby locations listed in the Lonely Planet, and our dodgy attempts at pronouncing Thai words didn't help much either! Back to the hotel for some assistance, we finally managed to get to the restaurant, and ended up having a very tasty meal.