Month: April 2014
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Statistical end to my SE Asia bike trip
Now my little Hanoi to Singapore bike ride is finished. Here is a first glimpse of my stats I biked 2,558 miles (4093km) with 55,000 feet (16,764m) of ascent. Pedalled it in 218 hours with 40 days on the road. My total time away from Cambridge (on this trip) was 68 days from 2nd Feb…
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Klulang to Singapore Island
After nearly falling down one of the open drains that Malaysia specialize in I had my egg roti and said farewell to Sabine who was cycling onto Mersing for the ferry to Tioman. My road was hilly, wide and quiet for the first half to Highway 1, all be it deadly monotonous Sime Darby plantations.…
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Muar to Kluang on Geoff’s SE Asia ride
Muar is a delightful working town loads of real shops including a great bike shop who sold me a Panasonic inner tube for 10 Ringgits but didn’t stock puncture repair kits. I started the day with some lovely egg roti’s at The Soup House, joined later by Sabine. As we were finishing the French couple…
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Malacca to Muar on Geoff’s SE Asia tour
The Mullah woke me up by blasting his prayer of the day at me, once awake the incessant pounding of the rain kept me up. I met Sabine loading up her bike at daylight downstairs and we agreed to hang on for the rain to clear, since it was only a 30 mile day. It…
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Around Melaka
Today I was playing at been a tourist again by joining the free 2 hour walking tour of the old city. Organised by The Melaka Museum Corporation & Melaka Tourism Promotion. Not free enterprise as in my tours of Bucharest & Ljubljana I could only understand about 1 word in 3 that the guide spoke…