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Mostly Fun: Soft Nut Bike Tours of Laos and Thailand
Paperback
Biographies GeneralHumorSoutheast Asia
ISBN13: 9780648660774
Publisher: Les Stanley
Published: May 29 2023
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
My favourite part of any cycling trip is when we stop. Never has this been more relevant than in Mostly Fun: Soft Nut Bike Tours of Laos and Thailand. For fans of the truth-telling style of travel writers such as Paul Theroux and Bill Bryson - travel is not always about glamour and goggle-eyed wonder. Sometimes, reality bites; roads are bumpy, restaurants are closed and the music is awful.
Another Christmas and New Year finally over, I set off to join friends, old and new, on a voyage of discovery, exploring the backroads and quiet towns of Central Laos and Eastern Thailand. Between the two saddle-bound trips I also enjoyed some rest and relaxation in and around Bangkok.
Laos was dusty, Eastern Thailand was hot and Bangkok was, much as I remembered it; sometimes hot, sometimes dusty but always fascinating.
The trip was, as the title implies, mostly fun.
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