nickjones

  • 2022 VeloViewer overview

    The excellent Veloviewer program/app takes all your Strava data and turns it into really useful charts. 2022 Overview But to put it into perspective this is the distance plotted against the previous 9 years so still a long way to beat the record-breaking 2020!

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  • Mini tour to Laos

      With the wretched CoVid restrictions slowly getting lifted especially with my 3 jabs and almost certainly a mild bout of it we thought it was time for touring, one of my original ideas for moving to Thailand 2 years ago. My truck was booked into Ford Phetchaburi to get the smashed rear light and…

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  • Digital Thermometer Instructions

    Finding it difficult to take my body temperature tests twice a day, for the14 days I’m in quarantine, with the digital thermometer supplied by the ASQ Legacy Hotel in Bangkok. I thought I would work out some instructions. None were supplied and I have led such a sheltered life. I have never needed to take…

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  • Getting knifed in the garden.

    The resident gardener decided we needed to plant a row of The King 9 miracle grass, otherwise known as Vetiver Grass along our new fence to help prevent soil erosion this is  where we have built the ground up higher than our neighbour. My task was to remove the mile a minute vine from the…

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  • A years cycling in Thailand

    Sabai Sabai I started this post on the 4th of January 🙂 2020 was a fantastic cycling year for me, blowing away all my previous mileage records :-). Thank goodness I moved to Thailand, in January, away from all the CoVid lockdowns in Europe. According to Strava I rode 18,220Km that’s well over eleven thousand…

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  • 88 days in Thailand

    I’ve now been in Thailand for 88 days and this is the first time I’ve been near my blog!  Which is to say very unusual for me as is riding 6600km (4,125 miles) in the same period. Not sure if the cycling rate will continue at such a pace with, as in the UK, all…

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  • Return to Thailand

    A longer trip this time and hopefully some longer Audaxes I’m booked into the ISAN 2020km on 02.02.20 and this weekend I’m attempting a tough 600 Starting from Sai Yok with over 6,000 metres of climbing 🙁 So should be very interesting! The rest of my time will be spent exploring the country by bike,…

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  • Return to Chom Bueng in daylight

    After a couple of very relaxing days at the Zen Hotel and where better to stay in Nakhon Pathom than with a Cafe Amazon, a 7-Eleven and half a dozen foot and leg massage places within a few yards of your 7th floor bedroom overlooking The Temple for £25 per night 🙂 The massages are…

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  • Nakhon Pathom 400km Audax

    Buoyed by the success of my first 600 I thought it would be a grand idea to finish a Super Randonneur series whilst in Thailand 🙂 I managed to get entry to the Nakhon Pathom 400km Audax so I rested a few days at the Payamai resort which so reminded me of places that Pelosi…

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