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Run-8. 2005 - Vientiane, Laos
In 2005, the
VH3 and VBH3, under the capable auspices of Condom and Pommy Fag,
again jointly hosted the eighth event in Laos. The fountain in the
centre of Vientiane again became home to several hundred Hashers as
they crisscrossed the square in search of beer – not to mention
fabulous pastries (a welcome hang over form its French colonial
past).
The main event on Saturday featured pleasant forested countryside
with an A to B run ending at a lakeside – why change a winning
formula? However, this time there were no lost Hashers – at least
none that have survived to complain about it! The Sunday hangover
run involved a run through almost every temple compound in Vientiane
and ended up at a local bar where the bar girls were kept amused by
the sight of a multitude of bare bums on ice. Chief protagonist of
the misorganising committee, Condom, eventually became too hoarse
and too pissed to discharge his duties (at least that’s what his
wife told me but she may have misunderstood about the discharge) and
he retired to a table overlooking the banks of the mighty Mekong
River where he memorably wrapped up the event with the words. “Fuck
it; it’s over. Let’s have a Beer Lao!” followed by the immortal
words, “Fuck off you cunts …”
For a privileged few, Condom organized a special run along the Ho
Chi Minh Trail after the main weekend. After overnighting in a gold
and copper mine in Sepon, the pack were treated to a run through the
surrounding jungle but here the usual directive to “stay on paper”
has a rather special meaning because of the large quantities of
unexploded ordinance that still remains after the “American” war –
you know, the one that never happened!
~as
recollected by BoBo
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