11:23am 12 January 2024
Canterbury to
Milton Keynes by
Train
12:03pm 14 January 2024
Milton Keynes to
London by
Train
Just a short day today, taking us east to one of Myanmar's biggest tourist centres, Inle Lake, and the town of Nyaung Shwe.
MoreCow bells. Wooden carts. Droves of cattle. Wheat harvested by hand. Cauliflowers, lots of cauliflowers, fields of cauliflowers, truckloads of cauliflowers. Cauliflower cheeeeeese!
MoreLuzhong to Pianma, Luang Prabang to Phou Khoun, Meiringen to Grindelwald, assemble esteemed company, and welcome... Kyaukse to Ywa Ngan! What an absolute swine of a day.
MoreSander calls my name to wake me. It works, kinda. I groggily come to, head still full of the vestiges of stressful dreams. My nights have been filled with paranoid dreams of packing up, leaving, cleaning, having rental places checked over, planes, airports and luggage. I'm not sure a bike trip in Myanmar is the best place to come down from the stresses I faced before getting here.
MoreWhen we're set to roll out, we ask the hotel staff where the next hotel is on the road south. They say there isn't one. Not until Taungyi, at least, and that's miles away.
MoreSlow off the mark this morning. The excuse is a debate about the route. The route I had planned has us returning the way we had come, descending back to the plain, before turning south towards Kyaukse. But, I had also pointed out that Pyin Oo Lwin possibly sets us up for an eastern route towards Inle Lake.
MoreWake up, pack up, roll out. It sounds easy, but when there's jetlag and other people involved, all bets are off.
MoreFollowed Wye valley down to Boughrood. Climbed over the Brecons/Black Mountains towards Bwlth.
MoreShort day after hard day. Late start; Tom didn't seem keen. Lots of delaying tactics.
MoreLong day. Beautiful weather, got sunburnt. Rolled out and up. Lots of climbing. Some so steep I needed to push. Culinary excellence with pasta and sardines again, but better this time. Bala; Llanbrynmair. Hard day.
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