Day 5 – Pursat – Moung Ruessey
I’d managed to get very little sleep even though exhausted. The surrounding area was very noisy, the room hot and sticky and even when I did manage to drop off, vivid dreams repeatedly found me sitting suddenly up in bed confused as to where I was. Another early start and I was still only half awake by the time we set off. However today was to turn out to be my favourite so far. The plan was to follow a canal in Kandieng District, built in 1976 during Pol Pot’s rule, it cuts a straight and unswerving line for 50km. We joined it 5km along and hit the obligatory dirt track as a gorgeous...
Read MoreDay 6 Moung Russey to Battambang
Day 6: This morning myself Ola and Mattias met at 6pm to go in search of breakfast for the team. Our hotel over looked the market so we didn’t have far to walk! We managed to find some bananas and baguettes which seems to have become the norm. Once we had eaten breakfast, we were ready to start our journey from Moung Russey to Battambang. The journey today was again very rural, and much to every ones anguish the roads were once again extremely bumpy, so much so the support vehicle and trailer had to take a few detours. We cycled through small villages stopping occasionally for water...
Read MoreDay 5 Blog – Canal Ride
I hear it’s pretty chilly, chilly in Britain right now – which means another instalment of Tales From a Hot Place must be just what you want to reading after a morning sliding around on black ice, trudging through sludge and generally wishing you’d put on more layers. Still, here’s another heart rending tale of how hot it is here, to you in cold snap Britain… Today was a good ride. Great scenery, historical significance and a reasonably good road surface – for the most part. We managed a stonking 85km, with only the final 20km being arm shatteringly awful, as well as...
Read MoreDay 4 BLOG
Children and animals Today starts with a belated dedication to Jonny ‘Boom’ Vantinel-Holmes, without whom my path through yesterday’s low point would have been a darker place. Following from my own efforts with Jonny the previous day, a rousing return to mis-placed Christmas songs raised a smile for the first time in some kilometres – thank you Jonny! So, today we visited a school which was full of smiley happy kids who were suitably excited to not have to be in their lesson for a little while as the circus had arrived in town. John and Ola delighted with magic tricks, I...
Read MoreDay 7 – From Battambang to Siem Reap
I was so tired when the alarm went off at 4am but had to get up as the boat was due to leave at 5am. We loaded up the van for the short drive. It was pitch dark as we were getting onto the boat. Stupidly I didn’t think of bringing my hoodie & it was bloody freezing. It was a long narrow riverboat so with only 8 of us we all had enough space to lie down which was good. I didn’t sleep but it was nice to be able to rest a while longer. We saw the sunrise which was lovely. Once it warmed up it was great. There was some lovely scenery & we saw plenty of floating villages. Ola &...
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