25th May to 04 June 2019 Hoi An 11 long days in Hoi An. Having researched online about getting a new visa for Vietnam it seems I have to do a border run to Laos. I’ll also need a letter of invitation as I’m asking for a 3 month visa to ensure I have enough time to explore the North. The options are go with the local bus, hire a motorbike or go with a visa run company in comfort….
Welcome to Vietnam… Again! OK, so I know I was in Vietnam in January this year, had a fab time and met up with old friends and new alike. I also know I haven’t written the blog for that backpacking visit yet, so you’re just going to have to wait, and in the meantime read all about my current visit on my Azub Ti-Fly Trike. As you may have read in the previous blog, (if not why not!?) I’ve just…
Tuesday 7th May 2019 Siem Reap to Stoung Distance 98km Total 25324km A few days ago I went into Siem Reap town center to a travel agents. I was enquiring about extending my visa for 1 more month. However, with the amount of public holidays this month and the fact your passport has to be sent to the capital, Phnom Phen, it wouldn’t have been returned to me until about the same day the extension was going to run out!…
Cambodia. 2nd Dec to 27 Dec 2018 Sunday 2nd December Siam Reap, Cambodia My flight out of Phuket is at 6am so like the good traveller I am I arrive 3 hours before. Having checked my bag in I’m told security doesn’t open for another 1 hour 30 minutes! So much for arriving early! I arrive in Siam Reap at 735am and after a very quiet trundle through the sleepy airport and having purchased my US $30 visa…
So if you’ve been reading the blogs so far you will have possibly heard we have been having a tough time of it. For the month of November Heulwen and I travel from Singapore, through Malaysia and into Thailand and up to Phuket to a workaway at a dog sanctuary . Unfortunately I’ve not got any photos and blog for this period as we were going through a massive upheaval and long story short we have decided to go our…
Friday 12th October / 13th October Muara, Brunei We complete another sailing leg and arrive in Muara. We anchor in the bay and Philip heads off to complete the Marina paperwork and immigration. Two hours later he’s back and he’s failed the Immigration test because they need to see us all personally. Whilst Phil’s away it’s been a mammoth task to organise movement of the crew from the trimaran to the yacht club. It’s about 300m away and it’s really…
Friday 28th September Cebu, Philippines So here we are in the Philippines sans trikes and the plan, if it comes to fruition, is to take a 6 month break from cycling . There are a number of factors that led to this cunning plan but ultimately our desire to cycle through China was the driver. But for that we need a Chinese visa. We had researched getting the visa from Seoul but even if successful that would have meant cycling…
Friday 31st August Busan port to Songdo Beach Daily Total 62.39 km Trip Total 24220.6 km We arrive in South Korea at 6pm. We get through Immigration and then are wondering where our trikes will be when a shipping agent comes over and asks us if we are the trike owners. (We’re probably the only European foreigners on the boat!) he takes us into a back room and then over several baggage conveyor belts and down a long metal staircase….
Friday 10th August Mimasaka to Kori Daily Total 58.22 km Trip Total 23376.92 km And we’re back on the trikes, cycling again. It’s been a fab workaway but time to move on. It’s an uneventful ride as we retrace our previous tracks back towards the coast. However we do make one slight detour. Remember the nice man who picked us up outside Okayama one night, took pity on us and drove us all the way back to Mimasaka? Well we…
Saturday 28th July Last night, returning from Okinawa, when our coach pulled in at Minasaka we’d been unable to reach Kuzumi and get a lift home but within 5 minutes we’d managed to hitch a lift. Over the next 4 days we do various chores including weeding, masking and sealing walls the walls in the house and other various chores. We catch the tail end of another typhoon with some high winds and torrential rains. To Crip’s surprise I quite…