Temp: 24.7 degC; humidity: 87% Despite the beds being harder than rock we both slept pretty well; may have had something to do with the beers?! We have a choice of two distances to ride today - 67 or 93km. We get to make the final decision after lunch so stay tuned. Breakfast was at 7am and consisted of eggs, noodles, fried potatoes, corn flakes, toast, fresh fruit and tea/coffee. We left on the bikes at 8am. Our first drink stop was at the peak of a bridge with ...

After only 4.5 hrs sleep, we were up just after 5:30am for breakfast at 6am. A full breakfast with bacon, eggs, toast, fresh fruit and of course coffee, and then back up to the rooms to pack up. The Grand President has 3 towers and we are in tower 3 which is across the road and in busy traffic you just have to close your eyes and walk/run! We met back in the lobby to check out and were met by the guide -Sunny, at 7:45am. Met up with two others in the lobby - Bill...

Amazing brekky in a pretty swish hotel. Pity we weren't staying longer, but we have ks to get under our wheels, this is not a sit around the pool tour. Rode away from the hotel at 8:15am onto a smooth (hot mix) wide verge. The roads here have improved dramatically over the last 10 years they are now streets ahead of us, pun intended. In addition the motorists were much more courteous and every vehicle gives us a wide berth or waited behind us until it was safe. 7...

BANGKOK TO KANCHANABURI, both Thailand. Superb early brekky, choice of Asian or European then packed up ready to go by 8am. To avoid the traffic we were driven out of Bangkok to a temple where we got our bikes, fitted our clip-in pedals, adjusted saddles etc ready to ride. Although a basis model, the Trek 4300 29 inch mt bike goes along fine and does the job. The highlights of the day were just being on the bike looking at something really different, a couple of ...

Cycle Tour Day 6, 81.5km, average 24.5km/h. Fried rice, eggs, toast, ham and coffee brekky about 6:30am with about 600 Thai people on some sort of bus tour. A short (1km) bus ride took us to our bikes and we cycled away at 8:30am. There was a fair amount of traffic initially but that was soon forgotten when we entered the countryside. One never feels in danger on Thai roads as the Thai drivers are so polite and careful around cyclists. We keep a good pace and it ...