{"id":12561,"date":"2014-03-30T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2014-03-30T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T15:06:27","slug":"banting-to-port-dickson-on-geoffs-se-asia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12561","title":{"rendered":"Banting to Port Dickson on Geoff&#8217;s SE Asia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today started of on a trip skirting Kuala Lumpur airport and the FI track at Sepang, where in fact a meeting was on so the roads were quite busy. There was a shortage of places to eat so I ended up getting breakfast 25 miles into the day at Pekan Sapang.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to try a short cut to Port Dickson which involved getting a ferry to cross the Sungai Lukul Besar Unfortunately the tide was out so to get the bike onto the boat &amp; off was a huge struggle, especially crossing the mud flat! The resorceful ferryman went back to collect two planks. All in all it would have been a lot quicker to bike upto the bridge and back down the other side.<\/p>\n<p>My new Lightning iPhone connector broke today so that is two down on this trip and probably about 5 in total. The connector is a totally rubbish design and if anything makes me change to Android it will be that dumb connector. I managed to get another one for \u00a32 which as yet doesn&#8217;t seem to get the ridiculous error message.<\/p>\n<p>Port Dickson proved a struggle to get an hotel as they have all ramped their prices for the school holidays plus they all along a busy road spread over several miles. Total nightmare when on the bike. Eventually the Sozzi Hotel gave me a room for 120 ringgits a night (\u00a324) but only wifi in the lobby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/125254518\">Here is the Strava<\/a>\u00a0with a low average speed due to the ferry and trying to find an hotel room A few\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5996585310381904465\">pics are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/125254518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12560\" alt=\"Banting_to_Port_Dickson___Strava_Ride\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Banting_to_Port_Dickson___Strava_Ride-1024x409.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Banting_to_Port_Dickson___Strava_Ride-1024x409.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Banting_to_Port_Dickson___Strava_Ride-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Banting_to_Port_Dickson___Strava_Ride-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Banting_to_Port_Dickson___Strava_Ride.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>Here is Sabine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyguyonabike.com\/doc\/page\/?o=1&amp;page_id=363510&amp;v=1A\">take on the day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today started of on a trip skirting Kuala Lumpur airport and the FI track at Sepang, where in fact a meeting was on so the roads were quite busy. There was a shortage of places to eat so I ended up getting breakfast 25 miles into the day at Pekan Sapang. I decided to try [&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-12561","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\/12561","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=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}