It would do me no good to even contemplate how many hours I have now been up - suffice to say snowy Reading seems many moons away. Since Singapore we boarded a new and very comfortable 777 for the 90 minute flight to Saigon. By now our team of 13 has had much time to bond, and enjoying each others company.
Whether the same will be said for our bikes who knows, but we were united with them in the lock up outside the city and fixed the necessary saddles, pedals. (In Vettle style I plan to christen mine: will let you know her name tomorrow).Then a brief visit to the market to be assaulted by all the noise, smells, dust that is South East Asia. And the traffic has to be seen to be believed in a city of 5m manic scooter riders. You cross the road by just going, never stopping or running, and miraculously it all skirts round you.
More to tell in a later post, of Jonathan gulping strong cold sweet coffee in one go, much to the locals amusement. Of the sights we have seen on the back of scooters, a lovely dinner at which nearly all the party nearly faceplanted their dessert due to complete exhaustion. Which is my cue to hope we have successfully beaten jet lag and to get to bed. Today was just getting here: tomorrow is when the bike rubber hits the road!
I have uploaded today's pics here: My cambodia cycle album on picasa, and they should be appearing in the slideshow.
Faves of the day has to be one of my meeting my partner for the week, and one of the traffic in this mad city
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