Today’s ride on Komoot Just a short day today down to Đồng Hới. The country is very narrow here, so heading to the coast is not far. Needless to say, I had an easy start – breakfast at the hotel, coffee just up the road and I got a Banh Mi at the local village …
By the way … the Indian restaurant has disappeared. I was so disappointed. I didn’t sleep well which meant that sleeping in, was mandatory. Not a bad outcome. I also forgot that breakfast was included here at the Paradise Hotel. I got up and went for a short walk to survey breakfast options, didn’t like …
Today’s ride on Komoot I was tired when I woke up, but I knew that it’s less than 70kms to Phong Nha with only one decent climb. The best thing is that there’s a rest day waiting for me, along with an Indian restaurant over the road from the hotel that I booked. Please don’t …
Today’s ride on Komoot The hotel here in Tay Son is great. It even has a movie channel with English language movies. The last time I saw that was in KL 3-4 months ago. So I watched a couple of movies, stayed up too late and felt rubbish this morning. When I woke up, it …
Today’s ride on Komoot Laos wouldn’t let me go quietly. It had one last sting in the tail – a headwind.The wind was strong at 7:30am, so I knew it wasn’t going to be a simple ride. I had breakfast at the restaurant over the road. The people here and at the hotel are just …
Today’s ride on Komoot Last night, I got the restaurant down the road to make me an omelette and rice, takeaway, so I could get going at a decent time. I had 100kms to the next reasonably sized town, Lak Sao which is a convenient 36kms from the Laos – Vietnam border. I said goodbye …
Lazy day today because there’s not a lot happening here except for the caves which I was looking forward to. I rode down to the starting point after some breakfast at one of the few restaurants on the way. Being a solo traveller, I had to wait for a couple of other tourists to arrive …
Today’s ride on Komoot Last night was possibly the worst karaoke I’ve ever heard, excluding my rare efforts. One guy went for nearly an hour and there were people whistling and shouting at him. I can’t imagine that they were encouraging him because you could hear in his voice when he was fighting to keep …
Todays ride on Komoot I was warned about the road surface today by other blogs, but nothing prepared me for the thick grey clouds of dust as I left Paksan. The roadworks continued until the 15km mark where I literally emerged from the clouds. From there, the road was just generally bad, which was a …
Today’s ride on Komoot Another late start but it’s a shortish 50+kms to Paksan. I also had a massive fried rice and egg for breakfast and food like this takes time. I’d hate to rush it 😁. The restaurant a couple of doors down the dusty main road has really looked after me. I doubt …
