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Cycle tourer, going slowly so we don't miss the next cake shop....

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2. The Devils Day Leaving our second home in Naarden we took a short cycle back to the hotel where we’d recently spent our anniversary at Amersfoort, successfully missing the thunderstorms until we could actua…
19.08.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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1. A Catalogue of Catastrophes It’s not often Ten Tonne Taffy gets a mentioned in dispatches these days, but lately she’s had a rough time, doing nothing but being our home. Firstly, I got up one night to go to the l…
13.08.2025 08:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anniversary Waltz – a mini tour. We visit a lot of hotels so get to use all sorts of different showers, from buckets to multi jet rainfall showers. One thing most have in common is the lengths they go to to make it hard to read th…
03.08.2025 08:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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23. A change of Direction We left Taiping well before first light to try and beat the heat and headed towards the coast again. By 9am we had covered 50km (ok 49.8km but if it hadn’t been for that last few hundred mete…
30.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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21. The sun never sets on the (old) British Empire. Always a picturesque start to the day We had a couple of nice days cycling through quiet lanes and tracks on our route south before emerging into Butterworth – a very odd name for a town in M…
20.03.2025 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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20. The Other Side Hello Malaysia We cleared immigration into Malaysia easily, it being the best organised border crossings we’ve done. We could even remain with Tilly for all the formalities instead of having …
11.03.2025 07:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
18. Hot hot hot We’ve been quite lucky with the weather so far, almost no rain, just the one 10 minute deluge and we’ve generally managed to finish cycling before it got hot hot. Hot is fine but hot ho…
28.02.2025 09:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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17. A Pelleton of tourers We’ve not seen many tourers this trip which has been a great surprise as we thought the place would be heaving with them, so perhaps like London buses they clump together and we duly bumped i…
25.02.2025 07:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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16. Turning south We left our cabin in the paddy fields at dawn and had a lovely cycle though small lanes, with ever changing scenery from Sugar Cane to strange crops we had no idea about but they looked about as wo…
14.02.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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14. The car is King We left our hotel about 50km south of Bangkok to salutes from all the staff and managed to weave our way through the paddy fields and countryside to the outskirts of the capital where the tranquili…
01.02.2025 09:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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13. Costa del Thailand From Chanthaburi we headed back to he coast on a cycle lane! There’s been quite a lot of these recently, though very very few cycles and they’re usually used by the mopeds and motorbike…
22.01.2025 08:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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12. Road? What road? We reluctantly left our  Christmas oasis of luxury in Phnom Penh after a lovely seven nights rest. Our journey from here takes us back westward to the coast. Once we reach the coast we only ha…
17.01.2025 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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7. Angkor Wat The cycle to Ankor Wat from the border town of Poipet is all on the main road. I’m sure some cyclists can do it all in one day, but for us it’s a short hop to Sisophon of 45km and then …
18.12.2024 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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6. Papers Please! The cycle too the border from Bangkok took a few days taking us though small villages and quiet roads and of course past many Temples.. It’s lovely cycling here when it’s not the middle…
14.12.2024 06:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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4. Farewell Bangkok And we’re off..leaving Bangkok We thoroughly enjoyed Bangkok, it’s a very western city and you can easily live a completely western life there from Marks and Spencers food and clothes t…
07.12.2024 05:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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3. Bangkok Unless we venture to Phuket, this is likely to be the most touristy place we visit and you’re really spoilt here with everything being in English at all the touristy spots. English is widely …
29.11.2024 07:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2. Cancelled and Refunded We picked up our hire car in Ipswich having asked for an MG HS as we could just squeeze Tilly in the back and found they’d taken no chances and upgraded us to a Grandaddy Volvo, very nice it …

And we are rolling....we'll all assembled ready to roll at least
www.lindaandjon.co.uk/2-cancelled-...

23.11.2024 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2. Cancelled and Refunded We picked up our hire car in Ipswich having asked for an MG HS as we could just squeeze Tilly in the back and found they’d taken no chances and upgraded us to a Grandaddy Volvo, very nice it …
23.11.2024 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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1. Banned again… When I really annoyed my mum, she used to say, “Sometimes you can get right up my back and knock me hat off” but to have pissed off to the two super powers in the world takes some doing…

And we're off again, but not where we'd planned...

21.11.2024 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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1. Banned again… When I really annoyed my mum, she used to say, “Sometimes you can get right up my back and knock me hat off” but to have pissed off to the two super powers in the world takes some doing…
20.11.2024 15:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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About turn… After an excellent 4 night stop in Madurai we left at 6.20am to get through the city before the madness begins and try to avoid the heat of the day which begins around 11am. It’s not so much …

www.lindaandjon.co.uk/about-turn/

07.03.2024 07:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

www.lindaandjon.co.uk/ablutions/. Our latest blog of our tandem cycle tour of southern India

04.03.2024 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Live long and prosper.. Leaving Pondicherry on a bicycle at rush hour is an activity only Klingons will truly appreciate. Before jumping on to their Bicycle, Worf would no doubt shout “Today is a good day to die&#82…

Tilly the tandems travels in India as we leave Pondicherry and head off in to the less touristy parts

14.02.2024 09:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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