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Published: July 12th 2008
We had a good send off and a few tears as we said goodbye to Allen & Marlene at Melbourne Airport, making sure we also said goodbye to all the dogs, Ossa, Josie, Molly and Sarah....
Another amazingly damage free flight from Sydney to Bangkok, however the swerving of the 747 as it landed was a little scary... We were seated at the back, so probably enhanced even more. We have been very lucky with the bikes and equipment whilst flying and also with not being charged with our weight... As we went through customs at 4am the one custom officer asked "bicycles", whilst pointing at the boxes, to which we answered "yes". "Good" he said and gave us a massive grin and then turned around back to his computer game of pinball... We then walked through to the arrivals area and were greated by 2 smiling policemen giving each other a sholder and back massage. We knew we were back in the motherland....
We hit Bangkok with the temperature hitting 36*C... We have left a lot of our camping stuff and winter riding gear with a friend in Bangkok and have now got rid of the
Life is hard
As you can see the 'Lord of the Rings' was hammered. I'm now onto the last 150 pages.... Thanks for lending it me Marlenerear panniers, and have swapped the fronts to the back... It now feels like we are riding a racing bike!!!
We left Bangkok to head for the beach and to visit Robbie (the American who we cycled with in New Zealand) who is teaching at Ao Luk, which is near Krabi. Krabi is the gateway to some of the most beautiful beaches in Thailand, including Railay and Ton Sai which is also a rock climbers paradise.
It was here that Robbie and Bo (his mate) spend their weekends to get away from the pupils, so off we went on the friday night with them to Ao Nang for some mega Pad Thai and Banana & Chocolate Roti Pancakes....mmmmmmmm
These beaches can only be reached by long tail boat and it was here that we spent a few nights relaxing in our little beach hut listening to the ocean lap against the shore, whilst the local Rasta community listened to Bob Marley until 12am most nights...
Over the week we swam, read (Lord of the Rings full edition & not cycle friendly), celebrated Carls birthday and generally re-couped before the next leg of
Our last night
We had fun every night with this lot and the dogs were not bad either..... the tour and before some person called Carter meets up with us..... As Carl says he will believe it when he see's it.....
On the hair report most of you will be pleased to know that I have finally got it cut today after 9 months with a lovely shampoo & head massage and cut for 2 pounds, where as Carl is still going strong growing his.....
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Rob Fishpig
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are those speedo's
hey Carl n Sarah well done!!! keep enjoying and don't let Carl cut his hair or get rid of his speedo's, remember if you're in New Zealand in the future and are in possession of undersize fish....your ass will be mown grass! seeya Rob