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 ...