Day 14: 41.3km It’s a strange feeling because we didn’t ever think that we would make it here. We never declared Koh Samui as an intent because it was only ever intended to be a journey with a nominal destination and we would give up when it stopped being fun.Read More →
Day 13: 63km The day started before 7am, when we woke, but it was after 10am before we left the hotel in Surat Thani. We picked up a couple of Thai DTAC SIM cards when we landed and have kept them topped up so that we have had continuous internetRead More →
Day 12: (62km) Fatigue & Fantastic Fire Food We’re not sure whether it’s the cumulative effect of the 12 days of cycling or the impact of last night’s lodgings that made the first half of today such hard work. The cycling itself wasn’t too much of a graft as intermittentRead More →
On one hand, we’ve not yet had a day without a “hard work” factor of some sort or another, but I’d rather that it worked out like this than have all the adverse factors stacked into one day. Yes, today was very hot with little shade but it was predominantlyRead More →
Today was a day that could be best described as “Character Building” It started off fine into the sunshine of Chumphon. We were a little slow out of the blocks, party because we had a hotel breakfast and partly because we\re both feeling a little sub-par. We have a generalRead More →
Chumphon via more beach and more jungle If ever there was a day to reflect on how lucky we are, it was today. Just a great day to be alive. The ride started by passing the beach restaurant that had been so friendly over the last couple of days andRead More →
The restaurant that was told to be 200m away was actually 1km away. TiT (This is Thailand) So we walked down the very noisy unlit jungle road to the seafront restaurant using a bike light as a torch. If we’d known how far it was, we’d have cycled but maybeRead More →
WHAT A FANTASTIC DAY IT WAS TODAY We’re broken now, at 30C and 83% rel. humidity with nil wind the jungle was oppressive in a way that we haven’t experienced before. It was a lot hillier than any of the previous legs and those hills were like mountains toRead More →
Day 7 – 70km (again) A bit of a something and nothing day really, but with a bit of a twist. The cloud base didn’t shift from moustache height all day and rain was intermittent. Once again frustrated by rain at the end of the day, but lucky enoughRead More →
There’s some places in the world that just seem to attract certain types of people; it’s the kind of person that you usually don’t see in mainstream society in Europe and they’re reminiscent of characters you would identify with in one of those gritty western movies of TV series. There’sRead More →