Biking
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Samutsongkhram to Hua Hin on Geoff’s SE Asia bike ride
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…
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Geoff’s SE Asia bike tour – Bangkok to Samutsongkhram
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…
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Bangkok booty
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…
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River Kwai one day trekking tour
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…
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To Bangkok from Phanom City on Geoff’s SE Asia tour
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 &…
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Wattananakorn to Phanom City on Geoff’s SE Asia tour
I managed to be on the road at 6.30am after discovering the reason for my leg sore yesterday was because the saddle had twisted slightly to the left so well greased up with vaseline (not recommended according to Sally) I left Bamai Motel feeling comfortable and determined not to get dehydrated today. I was helped…
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Sisophon to Wattananakorn on Geoff’s SE Asia tour
Today I made the early start, starting out just as the dawn broke. I had a quick eggy breakfast next door to the hotel and then set of for the border. It was a struggle with a head wind, although I managed a few miles behind mopeds carrying enormous loads, no view but equally no…
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Siem Reap to Sisophon on Geoff’s SE Asia biking tour
I left the comfort & splendour of the Angkor Era a bit later than I would have liked at just after 7. The lateness was, at breakfast, I received an email alert from Wordfence saying some files in a blog I run had suspect files 🙁 so I just deleted all 8 of them 🙂 Outside…
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Lazy day in Siem Reap
I downgraded to a Tuk Tuk today to check out the local gruesome killing fields memorial here in Siem Reap at the Wat Thmcy temple. Totally stunning to think that the capital city was emptied of people and that around 2 million folks were murdered or 25% of the population. Even worse for me was…
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Seeing the sights around Sien Reap
Today was a day of luxury for me, no push bike but a hotel car with driver & an English speaking guide all to myself for the day. First we joined the thronging masses, more like Disneyland than an historic site, around the inner set of temples at Angkor Thon, climbing to the heady heights…