Day 360 Bang Niang – Phuket (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 11.30am 1st April 2015 Miles rode – 56 (90km) A short ride to luxury today. A good friend has an apartment in a really lovely place by the beach which was empty, he said I could stay there. Wow, it’s like a palace! Having spent the last year staying in budget accommodation I […]
Days 358 & 359 Bang Niang (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – I didn’t 30th & 31st March 2015 Miles rode – None After two days of riding I decided to have a couple of lazy days. The first day I got up late and had the first coffee of the day at about 11.30. As usual I found a coffee shop with wifi to […]
Day 357 Ban Krut – Bang Niang (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 8.30am 29th March 2015 Miles rode – 286 (459km) What a great days riding, after 60km riding South I turned right and headed towards the west coast for the first time. For the following 400km I found myself riding along constant winding roads following the rippling contours of the dense jungle. It was […]
Day 356 Bangkok – Ban Krut (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 11.00am 28th March 2015 Miles rode – 222 (355 km) After a few beers last night I wasn’t about to leave early so after a coffee and goodbye to Cem I left at 11am. I’m pretty sure I won’t be returning anytime soon so as I rode out of the city I looked […]
Day 355 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 10.00am 27th March 2015 Miles rode – 70 (112km) Having staying at Rambuttri House in central Bangkok 5 times over 5 months I finally left and I will not return (I think?). It’s been like home, I know so many people here, the people who work in the hotel, shop, restaurant and bar […]
Cambodia – motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Cambodia has a population of 15 million and is about 3/4 the landmass of the UK, so not as empty as Laos but nevertheless ridding between cities there were few cars. The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975 led by Pol Pot and the new regime modeled itself on Maoist China, evacuated the cities and […]
Day 354 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – I didn’t 26th March 2015 Miles rode – None 8.00am. I feel empty and alone. I arrived in SoutEast Asia on 30th October 2014, just under 5 months ago, I was entering a new chapter in my travels, it was about riding through many wonderful countries experiencing the change in culture and people […]
Days 332 to 353 Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 10 x Bus / 2 x Plane / 3 x Boat / Many x Tuk Tuk & Taxis 4th – 25th March 2015 Miles rode – None Countries – Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam Olly and I had a wonderful time traveling together. We stopped in Bangkok for a couple of days and then headed east on […]
Day 331 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 9am 3rd March 2015 Miles rode 17 (27km) I returned to the Thai Customs offices and presented them with my new extended visa, completed the various forms and within an hour I had been given permission to leave my bike in Thailand until 17th April! I still have no idea why they granted me […]
Day 330 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 9am 2nd March 2015 Miles rode 65 (104km) I had three things to do today, visit the ‘Thai Customs’ office, get new tyres fitted to my bike at 4pm and meet Rob for a beer in the evening. I woke with a fuzzy head as I watched Ireland beat England in the ‘6 nations’ […]
Days 328 & 329 Surat Thani – Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 8am & 9am 28th February & 1st March Miles rode 412 (659km) It was the first time in over a month that I rode the bike and it was tiring, I stopped regularly and didn’t push it. I arrived in Prachuap Khiri Khan on the first night which was by far the most chilled out, […]
Days 292 to 327 Koh Samui (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – I didn’t 23rd January – 27th February Miles rode 85 (136km) When I left the UK back in April 2014 I had an idea where I was going and a rough plan, what’s transpired has been that I have enjoyed the situations that have cropped up and developed leading to new people, places […]
