{"id":12527,"date":"2014-03-25T22:47:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2014-03-25T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T22:47:24","slug":"se-asia-continues-georgetown-to-butterworth-on-the-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12527","title":{"rendered":"SE Asia tour continues &#8211; Georgetown to Butterworth on the mainland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally made it back to the Malay peninsula at Butterworth today. That means I missed about 300 miles of biking in mainland Thailand by using the ferries and visiting the Andaman Sea islands.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up with a touch of the runs, first time since leaving home almost certainly some food from a dodgy street stall in Georgetown, fortunately I was staying local, with the only goal today of getting back on the mainland via the short ferry to Butterworth,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1423.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12528\" alt=\"1-IMG_1423\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1423-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1423-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1423.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Georgetown is obviously backpackers paradise stuffed full of budget hostels etc not really my scene though, although The Camera Museum was well done, I liked the loo roll holders made to look like like old 35mm film canisters &amp; the zoom lens coffee mugs. It\u2019s interesting that the grandkids will have no idea about old film photography they are already perplexed why TV\u2019s don&#8217;t have touch screens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8646.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12529\" alt=\"1-IMG_8646\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8646-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I managed to get a new saddle for the bike as the cover was ripped off in all the lugging about on boats plus I delivered a theory that the rubbing on my behind was caused because my shorts couldn&#8217;t slip against the saddle. Whereas on my Brookes one at home it can (Hot tip &#8211; Always take your saddle with you on your travels \ud83d\ude42 ) Tomorrow will be the test for the saddle and me as the days are now really hot &amp; humid.<\/p>\n<p>Once i had negotiated my way around the dual carriageways I checked in at the Lodge 18 Hotel in Butterworth, then explored all the amazing electronic component shops etc in the neighbourhood, buying a temperature &amp; humidity meter plus a 14mm spanner in case I have to adjust the saddle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally made it back to the Malay peninsula at Butterworth today. That means I missed about 300 miles of biking in mainland Thailand by using the ferries and visiting the Andaman Sea islands. I woke up with a touch of the runs, first time since leaving home almost certainly some food from a dodgy [&hellip;]<\/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-12527","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\/12527","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=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}