Chanting at sunrise 😊For the past week I was high in the central highlands at the Sivananda Yoga retreat. This was an experience which I knew would challenge me. All that was ‘normal’ would be changed - from the food I ate, to the structure of the day, to the chanting...

Excuse the long blog entry - been a while! It’s been a challenging week of riding followed by a chilled out week of relaxation before the retreat next week. I’ve basically hibernated! ThursdayToday I think I cracked. At some point along the highways and byways of...

Having managed to get some Dong, I have been traveling north west to south east in southern Vietnam. It’s been incredibly hot and humid and has been a struggle to be honest each of the last three days of cycling. Day one proper took me in to rural Vietnam which I...

They say things happen in 3s!Friday….my last day in Cambodia. And it threw everything at me to ensure I remembered it! Not 2k in to the ride the road simply disappeared in to a slippery quagmire choked with frustrated drivers and mopeds….and me. Last night there was...

Cambodia is a confusing place - dangerous, and confusing. It doesn’t seem to quite know what or who it is….it had a schizophrenic relationship with itself - with its continued ‘dollarisation’, it’s fake hotels which rest obscenely against (or on) the abject poverty...

Siem Reap…temples and toilets! Angkor Wat is one of the 7 wonders of the world, so it was with respect to that title I discarded my usual disregard of touristy ‘things’ and headed to the main temple. First you need to buy a ticket at the official (and only) ticket...