Upgrade, wooohooooo!
2024年1月31日, アイルランド ⋅ 🌬 8 °C
Just came through.... Reward for many years of corporate rough and tumble across the Emirates Group!
Good old DXB.... where else?!
2024年2月1日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Always funny to be back here, even passing through, having been in and out of this airport since 1995. 28 years. Tempus very fugit. Actually since December 1994, when Roland and Sian came out to checkもっと詳しく
Leaving Crowfall
2024年1月31日, アイルランド ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
So after nearly a year so since registering for this charity ride with Lendwithcare, I'm all packed and ready to roll! Training all done, although no doubt I could have done more, but I think I'm inもっと詳しく
BKK immigration queue
2024年2月1日, タイ ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
Absolutely horrendous, one of the longest snake queues in memory, and humid of course! Not my favourite part of travelling. Should definitely have taken some water off the plane to stay hydrated!
Checking in for Siem Reap flight
2024年2月2日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Oddly unable to check in online, although ticket is clearly confirmed, so in another queue to check in the old way!
En route to Seam Reap
2024年2月2日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Checked in at BKK for Seam Reap after a very average hotel breakfast, but to be fair it takes a couple of days to adapt to Asian hotel breakfast selections, but then it's all fine! Decent 6.5 hrsもっと詳しく
ATR72!!
2024年2月2日, タイ ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
I do love the ATR72, the drone him of the turbo props, seating and pitch, and the fact it flies lower so you see more. I take after my Dad!
Inflight meal
2024年2月2日, タイ ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Not quite fine dining on Emirates, but looks like a lovely, old school inflight snack
Landed in Cambodia
2024年2月2日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
Sakaban Hotel (formerly Diamond DAngkor)
2024年2月2日, カンボジア ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Staying here for the first few days while we cycle more locally, then cycling to next location on Feb 4. On 3rd we'll be cycling to Tonle Sap, and going on a boat trip around the lake villages. Likeもっと詳しく
Angkor Wat at dawn
2024年2月3日, カンボジア ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Up at 0400 for a 0500 departure in tuk tuks, so dark and relatively cool, about 24C I think. Because it was early the roads were quite quiet. The dawn was good but not initially impressive, but as theもっと詳しく
Corny video by our guide!
2024年2月3日, カンボジア ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
I've never been in so many group posed photos in one day!
Siem Reap at night
2024年2月3日, カンボジア ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Brief walk to night market after dinner and then to a cool roof top bar, 7 of us. Town oddly quiet, but I've no idea why this is, seeing it ought to be tourist season.
Easy morning..... Bike 'fitting' soon
2024年2月4日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
Went for walk to find bookshop and get a couple of postcards (although I don't yet have stamps!). Recall post cards? An earlier technology. On way back had yummy fries bananas and pineapple juice forもっと詳しく
Fitted saddle myself!
2024年2月4日, カンボジア ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
Briefing
2024年2月4日, カンボジア ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Not much new until the health bit, and the briefing about extreme heat stress and how temperature, humidity, exertion and alcohol are a toxic combo - this was a tad unnerving!
First time whole group together
2024年2月4日, カンボジア ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
Dinner together, but whole cycle group together. Tomorrow the cycling starts ...!
First day cycling, to Angkor Wat
2024年2月5日, カンボジア ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
A good first day, not very demanding really, probably intentionally. Some people found the ruts on the forest trails a little unnerving, and we had to stop several times as the same people got freakedもっと詳しく
Day 2 of 8 cycling days
2024年2月6日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Today we cycled out of town, and 25 people weaving in and out of traffic worked surprisingly well! Then along series of mainly hard packed dirt roads to a river connected to Tonle Sap Lake. At oneもっと詳しく
Day 3/8 cycling days
2024年2月7日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Well, I guess a success in as much as 1) I didn't need the support bus, and 2) at 52km that's the most I ridden, just, since starting training. But..... There were several things that meant the targetもっと詳しく
Well deserved beeeeeer
2024年2月7日, カンボジア ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Downtown Anlong Vegn, with a beer and nuts by a well lit roundabout! Then back to the hotel, to catch the bus as I don't think the guest house can cater for all of us!
Day 4/8 cycling
2024年2月8日, カンボジア ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Hit a personal record in one day, 55.27km. Again I'd be happy to shoot for 60km deffo, but those in charge felt as it was a longish drive to hotel we should knock it on head and finish. Btw, theもっと詳しく
Day off cycling, visiting projects
2024年2月9日, タイ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
So today was a mostly welcome rest day, with a whole day of visiting Lendwithcare's local Thai partner who vets the entrepreneurs and their projects before disbursing microfinance loans to them. Noneもっと詳しく
Day 5 of 8 cycling days
2024年2月10日, タイ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Good day, 71.5km covered today (256km this week). Helped by early start, cycled out of town straight from hotel, cooler weather as we head northwards, shorter lunch stop, and fact we saved time byもっと詳しく
Day 6 of 8 cycling days
2024年2月11日, タイ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Whoops, nearly forgot to post this as zonked after 72kms, a message before dinner, and a couple of beers! Hard to crash as 6 floors down a live duo playing to the outside restaurant! So tonight we'reもっと詳しく
















































































































旅行者Nice!
旅行者Louise is still annoyed that I got a 1st upgrade Dubai-Sydney years ago ;)