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Biking from Hanoi to Singapore through Cambodia, Thailand & Malayasia
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 […]
I departed once again with the dawn, However, due to the absence of bridges I had to do 10 miles to cross the river a distance gained of less than 1 mile 🙁 Today I was finally travelling South again. however, that’s where the hot wind was coming from too, making life doubly difficult for […]
Back on the road at the crack of dawn, very pleasurable too, even the 12 lane highways out of Bangkok were good fun, apart from when 3 lanes peel of to the left and I needed to be going straight on but, as you can tell, I survived. Later on I decided to do some […]
After, for me, a record breaking 4 nights at the ultra deluxe Windsor Suites Hotel I’m moving south towards Singapore tomorrow. The long delay was due to V.Siam Optical waiting for my replacement prescription glasses which after 4 days duly arrived today, not particularly cheap at £163 for varifocal adaptive glasses but wow are they […]
Yesterday was another of my tourist days. Very tiring too, we covered 270 miles via minibus, train, boat & elephant 🙂 but no biking. Our first stop was Kancchanaburi military cemetery dedicated to the 6,981 folks killed whilst building this part of The so called “Death Railway” a startlingly high number from Cambridge who were […]
An excellent mornings cycling. It began and ended on busy dual carriageways initially with big trucks to suck me along later big tourist buses. Not so well endowed with coffee shops today but plenty of small towns. As a lark I rode the bike over the official weighbridge 🙂 Total weight for bike, clobber & […]