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5 October 2019
Wed 2 Oct – Fri 4 Oct. Kuala Lumpur. Three days off in capital city number 18 of our journey and for some reason we had both expected Kuala Lumpur to be quite similar to Bangkok. But it’s nothing at all like it. For a start it’s much much cheaper for both food and accommodation […]
1 October 2019
Friday 27 September 19 – Georgetown to Taiping – 87km There might be a romantic misconception that we get up in the morning, eat breakfast, pack our bags, get on our bikes and ride through beautiful weather along a picturesque, winding road for a few hours to our destination. This does happen on occasion, but […]
27 September 2019
Sunday 22 Sept Hat Yai to Jitra (Malaysia). 90km. The usual early morning start and being a Sunday in Thailand the roads were quiet. It was a 60km jaunt to the border, which we did without a break as we had used up all our Baht so had no cash to stop for a coffee […]
26 September 2019
We didn’t think we would have much in the way of a round-up for southern Thailand as we assumed it would be similar to our experience in the north. And as Nigel said in his last post we didn’t have high expectations for the region either, thinking it would be over-commercialised to cater for mass […]
22 September 2019
Monday 16 September and Tuesday 17 September 19. Surat Thani to Pang Pring beach. 96km and a day off. As planned, we had cold omelette and rice for breakfast (which actually tasted much nicer than it sounds!) and then headed off into grey drizzle, which lasted for most of the morning. We […]
17 September 2019
Wed 11 September. Bangkok to Prachuap Khiri Khan. 8 hours on a hot, sweaty and very slow train. It was on our 5km ride across town to the train station that we realised that the mechanic hadn’t done as good a job on the bikes as we initially thought ……the crank bolts (the bolts that […]