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May 6th, 2011 | Asia

It’s not exactly heaven…

…in country No: 77…!! Not on our first day here anyway…!!

We rode into Malaysia today… We left the boring and seemingly bewildered town of Songkhla on the eastern seaboard of Thailand and rode through Hat Yai and on to Sadao, heading due south on the highway that led to the Malaysian border…

May 5th, 2011 | Asia

No Singing in Song-khla…!!

As the title suggests, our decision to ride to, and stay in Song-khla, was not one of our most inspired choices of places to visit…!!

Our route to Songkhla…

There didn’t seem much to see along the coast south of Koh Lanta, so we opted to ride across the peninsula and then turn […]

May 4th, 2011 | Asia

Languishing in Lanta…

Heading for Koh Lanta, hoping to find a place to relax in for a while…

Writing this in retrospect is difficult, but when I look at the hundreds of photos I took while we were there, fond memories of my five day visit come readily to mind…

It was strange not having Big […]

May 2nd, 2011 | Asia

Koh Lanta Yai…

While Trevor, Chenty and Philip went over to Phi-Phi to do some diving, I opted to ride on to Koh Lanta island instead… I was pretty sure that the hype surrounding Phi-Phi was not all that well placed, and as it turned out, I was correct in this assumption…

Many people I spoke to later, […]

April 30th, 2011 | Asia

Paradise to Earth…!! Anybody out there…??

Hee, hee…!!

Kata Beach, Phuket… We managed to make it through another difficult day…

Ok, enough with the sun, the sea, the palm trees and white beaches on tropical islands….!! And the “other scenery” with it’s humps and bumps…

Time to get back to work I hear you say….!!

Believe it […]

April 28th, 2011 | Asia

On to Ao Nang…

Riding over the short bridge that connects Phuket to the mainland…

We crossed over the bridge from Phuket into the district of Phang-Nga, rode north for a short while then turned east and headed for Krabi…

It was a great ride, albeit a short one, and was made interesting when Colonel Thick-Finger suddenly […]