Ruth / Gordon: We are enjoying two nights in Lampang at Lada's guest house. We both much prefer Lampang to Chiang Mai and are happy to relax here with grandma Lada as our host. She served us a lovely Thai breakfast of sticky rice, bbq pork, eggs and coffee. Yum! She...

Ruth: Upon leaving Sukhothai we cycled by a few more temples before heading North, retracing our tracks from three years ago. At Wat Si Chum, a Thai woman gave me three pieces of gold leaf and showed me how to rub it on to the Bhudda's hand. The road north to Si...

Gordon:  What can I say, Sukhothai is one of our favorite places in Thailand.  We spent three nights here on our last trip and two nights on this one.  The attraction?  Amazing temple ruins from the 13th and 14th centuries set in a tranquil park...

Ruth and Gordon: Phitsanulok is a lovely town set along the Nan River.  It is the home of Wat Pra Si Rattana Mahathat, the second most important Buddhist site in the country after the Wat containing the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok.  Phitsanulok also has a...

November 30, 2016Ruth: Today we cycled 53 km from our hotel near the Bangkok airport to Rangsit, a major town north of Bangkok. From there we caught the slow train north. When the train arrived without a luggage car the crew waved us away until the station staff...

Thailand has lost their beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the Nation has entered into a year of mourning. Black is now virtually the only colour on display in the shop windows and market stalls.  We were surprised by the enormous crowd of grieving...

Ruth:  After three and a half months of cycling across Europe we came home for a month to relax and reconnect with family and  friends. It was one of my most luxuriously lazy months ever, but just what I needed before heading off again. Now we are sitting in...