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Yesterday I let the ferries take me south rather than the bike, although the sailors kept indicating I should be biking across the water! The bike went on the ferries OK although i had to pay an additional 300 baht on top of the 1500 baht for me (about £36 in total) for a 6 […]
Today I was in tourist mode again off out on a day long boat trip around and on Phi Phi from Lanta including lunch on The Beach with a thousand others. We started on a regular boat (good experience for the next few days of island hopping) which transferred a load of folks onto the […]
In fact to be more precise; a lazy day on and by the magnificent beach of Klong Dao near Saladan Town. I took a barefoot walk to the far end of the beach where I had a fresh coconut 🙂 then it was back to the Bee Garden for a two hour massage by the beach the […]
I thought today was going to be a ton up day. However, it turned into an only 97 mile day 🙂 but given the heat & weight still a good day. It’s still totally amazing to me the sharp contrast between tourist & non tourist areas both in pricing, availability of stuff in shops & […]
With a cock crowing away outside my door it was obviously time to be on the move! so after dutifully doing my emails etc I was back on the road at 6.45am ready to cross from the East coast of Thailand to the West coast. The wind was behind me and with smooth roads I […]
I left Koh Tao on the 9.45 Catamaran to Koh Samui with a brief stop , to disgorge hundreds of folk, at Koh Phangan. Last night was the full moon festival so i was treated to loud bangs from some humungous bangers in the street below. Fascinating how the kids like this island, a bit […]
The lovely folks at Grasshopper tours let me hitch a 40minute ride with my bike to the ferry terminal at Chumpon. We made it for the 7am Catamaran service to the East coast islands, their group went to the big island Koh Samui. I opted for the first small island Koh Tao thinking I could […]
I managed a really great early start today leaving as the dawn broke just after 6am, the first two hours are bliss, lovely and cool. I stopped for a lovely roadside breakfast in Bang Saphan and then pressed on as today was going to be long due to the distance of 70 miles+, the undulating […]
I left the Kuiburi Hotel & Resort in a bit of a huff & rage at their incompetence, so I never had the breakfast I ordered due to the ‘urgent’ call from reception asking me to attend to the fact I had partaken of a beer & crisps from my room – I couldn’t face going back […]
Another early start and the hotel had made me a egg sandwich for breakfast, once again they thought it needed a slice of ham 🙁 So i fished it out. The previous night I had created a route with bikemap.net that stuck to the coast and avoided the dreaded main highway 4, the route worked […]