Let’s go cycling

  • A few hills…

    9th August, last of the Mekong river, 30km to Pakse A short and pleasant ride into Pakse, where we decided to go “grand” since it was cheap (by Ozzie standards anyhow!). The Champasak Grand Palace was built for a Champasak Prince back in 1969 but was left unfinished when the prince fled due to the…

  • The Mighty Mekong

    3rd August, Laos! Stung Treng to Khone Phapheng, 70km Into Laos…An easy but time consuming border crossing. Almost no traffic from either direction, so no queues at immigration- yet it still took around half hour of waiting for us to get our Laos visas sorted. Neil has a (I really hope not dodgy🤞 ) plan…

  • To the border

    29th July, Siem Reap to Beng Melea, 60km A hearty omelette (thanks Socheata!) to send us off and we’re on our way again. A lo ely ride on the temple ring road, until we hit a long stretch of dirt road that progressively turned into mud.  After a few km of persevering in the muddy…

  • Wales!

    Well…all I can say is it’s very hilly!  But oh so very scenic. 19th July, 17km of riding and 100km of water A 3 1/2 hour ferry ride and we change countries.  No riding off the ferry this time- we manhandled our bikes onto the shuttle bus to take us to the terminal so that…

  • And that’s Scotland

    If you look at the map…we’ve covered only the tiniest little section of Scotland.  Just on a month exploring the west coast and islands, and how spectacular it was indeed. June 28-29, 45km back to Ardfern from Oban. A determined ride to make it to the Folks at Ardfern in time for lunch! Then another…

  • Islands and Highlands

    23rd June, Torridon to the Isle of Skye.  74.6km and 1020m elevation, lots of rain, Max 13degrees. A big day of riding and soooo many hills!  Nothing super huge- just lots of ’em.  My legs were complaining by the time we got to Skye, that’s for sure. No need for a ferry today as there’s…

  • Westward bound

    15th MayEly to Wisbech53km, 166m elevation, 13 degrees, cloudy and a thoroughly brutal headwind! A good night’s sleep at this quirky little place, then to negotiate the accommodation rate with the resident Mr Fawlty. Somehow overnight it had increased by £10 so a bit of negotiating, or reminding, was required. Along with an earbashing about…

  • Heading North

    Slough to East Anglia 11th MayAnother English breakfast and see ya later to Isabel.Getting out of Slough was easy- so many lovely little laneways and the roads we did ride on were mostly quiet. Somewhere along the way, around the time we were thinking it was time for a coffee, we came across a low…

  • Back on the bikes

    9-10th MayHello London! A long and tedious flight but the Perth to London direct is not too bad a way to make the distance- at least it’s all over with in one go! Bikes arrived intact and a quick immigration exit meant “we” had our transport assembled and set to go by around 7am… ready…