{"id":12474,"date":"2014-03-16T14:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2014-03-16T14:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:11:56","slug":"geoffs-se-asia-tour-don-sak-to-phrasaeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12474","title":{"rendered":"Geoff’s SE Asia tour – Don Sak to Phrasaeng"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a cock crowing away outside my door it was obviously time to be on the move! \u00a0so after dutifully doing my emails etc I was back on the road at 6.45am ready to cross from the East coast of Thailand to the West coast.<\/p>\n

\"1-puncture\"<\/a>The wind was behind me and with smooth roads I made good time stopping for a Thai breakfast followed by a Amazon smoothie. I was pounding along quite merrily when suddenly I was bumping along with a flat rear tyre. \ud83d\ude41 So after taking the luggage off and upending the bike I discovered a 2 inch nail had embedded itself in my brand new tyre & innertube :-(( \u00a0I quickly extracted the nail, changed the tube and was on my way again.<\/p>\n

\"1-IMG_1217\"<\/a>On the way I met a Scottish guy who had made a contraption to fix his road bike \u00a0onto his moped. I guess in Vietnam they would just have strapped it on with some bungees \ud83d\ude42 In Puang Promkhon I found a shop where they expertly fixed the punctures caused by the nail going right through the tube \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0So I now have a spare again. It’s amazing that I did the 3000 miles to The Black Sea with no punctures whereas in the 1800 miles cycled so far I have had 4 punctures \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

\"1-IMG_1221\"<\/a>After 80 miles I called it a day in the city that has a bulldozer on a pedestal in the central square, \u00a0Phrasaeng. I really struggled finding the hotel which everyone was sure in the town. At one point a guy had me following him on his motorbike, only to take me to his house! I turned tail & escaped. Eventually someone in a smart car showed me where it was – I would never had found it as the sign was totally in Thai.<\/p>\n

So by the time I stopped cycling it was 83.9miles when I arrived at\u00a0\u0e42\u0e23\u0e07\u0e41\u0e23\u0e21\u0e1e\u0e23\u0e17\u0e34\u0e1e\u0e22\u0e4c. (Hotel Porntip according to Google translate).\u00a0Here is the Strava:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Don_Sak_to_Phrasaeng___Strava_Ride\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Todays pictures are here<\/a><\/p>\n

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With a cock crowing away outside my door it was obviously time to be on the move! \u00a0so after dutifully doing my emails etc I was back on the road at 6.45am ready to cross from the East coast of Thailand to the West coast. The wind was behind me and with smooth roads I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-south-east-asia","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}