Travel Blogging
Posts on my experiences in travelling
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Baan Grood to Chumpon Beach on Geoff’s SE Asia tour
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…
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Biking from Kuiburi to Baan Grood on Geoff’s SE Asia tour
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…
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Geoff in SE Asia with a bike – Hua Hin to Kuiburi
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…
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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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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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Paradise caving day
Today I gave the bike a rest after its 356 mile ride from Hanoi, although for myself I ended ascending 560 feet and walking over 5 miles plus a couple of 100+ metre swims in the caves. The Phang Na Homestay offers many excursions to the local national park I chose the Farmstay National Park Tour…
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Halong Bay Tour
Whilst in Hanoi I decided to go on a package tour to Halong Bay after all the rave reviews from various folks I’ve met. Plus the shops were closed for Tet (Lunar new year). The HanoiMoment2 hotel arranged the trip: Overnight trip on the Aclass Opera Cruise with 01 deluxe cabin @ USD 149.00 per person x 2…
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Arrival in Vietnam & first day in Hanoi
I arrived at the Hanoi Moment2 Hotel just after midnight (5pm UK time) today after leaving Cambridge at 2.20pm on Sunday, so a pretty exhausting day, I didn’t get much sleep even though I had 3 seats on the 787 to myself. China Southern Airways was OK although they do fret about Lithium batteries in…
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The next adventure
Tonight I’m at Heathrow awaiting my night flight to Guangzhou and then onto Hanoi a total travelling time of about 24 hours. Tuesday should find me exploring Hanoi in search of a local SIM card and a bike. Yep I’m about to try and bike from Hanoi to Singapore in the 9 weeks I’ve given…