Day 322 – Wednesday, March 12th 2014 Our first taste of Cambodia would be their corrupt border officials, and their amateurish attempt to relieve us of 200 Thai Baht with a hand written sign at the Visa payment desk. With a little confidence behind us, having dealt with quite a few borders on this trip, … Continue reading
Day 316 – Thursday, March 6th 2014 It was nice to wake up to birds chirping, but we once again had some miles to cover. We headed with some of the others to the Tesco in town, and picked up supplies before having a parking lot breakfast. We waved our goodbyes and got on the … Continue reading
Rudyard Kipling, despite being famed for his exceedingly good cakes, had only briefly been to Burma when he penned the verse above in his poem Mandalay, having only moored briefly at Rangoon on his way to Japan he could not possibly have visited the City that he refers to so lovingly. However, while we’re referencing authors, and … Continue reading
Day 294 – Wednesday, February 12th 2014 Getting an early start after a breakfast on the gas station forecourt, we arrived in Guwahati, the largest city in the north-east by quite some margin, at around 2:30. We were forced to negotiate quite hard against the cities many one way systems before we were permitted to … Continue reading
Day 283 – Saturday, February 1st 2014 We awoke in that most colonial outpost of North East India: Darjeeling. At 2000 meters above sea level, it had been refreshingly cool overnight – calling for cosy thick bedcovers, and within a few minutes’ walk of the Gymkhana parking lot we would be treated to a view … Continue reading
Day 272 – Tuesday, January 21st 2014 We were getting closer to Ivor, and to resuming our life on the road, but we were not there yet. We woke in our KL hotel and had ourselves shuttled to the airport ready for our last flight back to Nepal. After a Mc-Breakfast we boarded our flight, … Continue reading
down the road we go 