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 …
Todays ride on Komoot Leaving Vientiane took me past the Patuxay Monument. I really like it. It’s impressive, nicely decorated and dedicated to the fighters who fought or died in the struggle for independence from France. Ironic then, that to many of us, it resembles the Arc de Triomphe (as Kerry Burke pointed out). My …
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Todays ride on Komoot The guesthouse here in Phonhong, is quite nice and run by lovely people. That’s a universal truth about every guesthouse owner that I’ve met on this trip. As I left and rolled down to the main road, I could have turned left and got breakfast for certain, but I took a …
Today’s ride on Komoot The weather wasn’t going to be too hot today, so I had an easy morning. I slipped on the mat outside the bathroom last night and banged my knee and another toe. Nothing broken this time though. It seems when one injury heals, I get another. I guess it’s something to …
Today’s ride on Komoot This morning, I wasn’t too late getting packed up and out the door. I definitely wasn’t early though. I went over the road to my favourite Kasi restaurant which is ok. The thing is, I could go anywhere in town and get a similar level of food, so I’ll stick with …
Today’s ride on Komoot First job this morning was to check the view. Clear and stunning, but I’m used to that now ! Gee the mountains are high here. The valleys and hills look like they’re of Alpine proportions, and I can stare at them for ages. I ate a bit of the breakfast that …
Today’s ride on Komoot It was cool overnight, so I wasn’t in a hurry to get going. The fact is, I never am. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m not a morning person or that I’m lazy when I know there’s an effort involved. On paper, the effort was less than yesterday, but these …
Today’s ride on Komoot This was the day I had very mixed feelings about. I expected to see the beautiful hills of Laos, but where there’s hills, there’s pain, and there was more than 2000 verical metres of pain today. In the end, the hills were quite manageable and the scenery was spectacular from the …
Today’s ride on Komoot I lingered in Luang Prabang and had a long talk to Andy the owner of Mali House. He’s the right guy for the job of running a guesthouse for sure. Today’s ride was short, so there was no rush. It’s hard to leave a place like LP with it’s nice ambience, …
I had some great food and rest in Luang Prabang and I needed it. Now I feel ready to tackle some of the hills out of here. I certainly didn’t feel like that 4 days ago. I also met Miles and Claire, two bike tourers from the UK who were at the end of their …
