The hotel breakfast was available from 7 am on Tuesday 25th July so, I had the bike checked and loaded up in the basement car park and was sat in the dining room by 7.15. By the number of people already breakfasting, it seems I may have been a little hasty with my judgment […]
My rest day in Songkhla proved very pleasant. After finishing the last report, I took a wander around town and located a bar mentioned in LP run by a British guy, sat and had a beer and a burger with him and got the low down on the town and some of its ex-patriot […]
The Nakhon Garden Hotel was difficult to leave on Thursday 20th July, it was pleasant place to hang out in. But I was looking forward to a short day’s ride and my destination, Hua Sai, right on the coast according to the map, looked very inviting. So, after a good hotel breakfast, I […]
I had a choice to make on leaving La Mae on the morning of Monday 17th July; do I go back to the main road, route 41, or use the coast road, a minor road indicated on the map, running due south parallel to route 41 but nearer the sea. I loaded the bike […]
I was reluctant to leave the wooden hotel on the beach at Hua Hin. I toyed with the idea of having a rest day but I really am keen to get some kms done down towards the Malaysian border, so that I can judge more accurately how long it’ll take me, before I start […]
After filing the last report, I took a stroll down the infamous Khoa San Road, where all the cheapest hotels and bars are; the main haunt for young back-packers. It was an eye opener. Noisy, brash and full of youngsters of all nationalities, it just wasn’t my scene at all. There were […]
To explain the ‘fiasco’ part of this report’s heading, I need to start by describing my penultimate day in Chittagong, because that’s where the nonsense started.
On Thursday 6th July, I dodged the showers and rode the 19 kms out to Chittagong Airport which, once clear of the main City, was a pleasant ride along the […]
Saturday proved disappointing for me - but only for the same reason as most people back home must have been somewhat saddened too. The reception staff phoned me in my room at around 7.30 pm and invited me to join everyone else in the hotel lobby to watch the match on their big screen […]
I arrived in Chittagong at lunch time on Friday 30th June. As I’d estimated, it was a three day ride, but I was a day late leaving Dhaka - for what could have been very beneficial reasons but wasn’t as successful as first envisaged. Let me explain.
There’s reputedly 600,000 cycle rickshaws in Dhaka. […]