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Paul Hamon

Paul’s side of the ride, written most evenings in English.

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We visit Ban Home Hug Orphanage

We are in province number 34, Yasothon. We’ve been here before to visit and help out the children with HIV at Ban Home Hug who have been abandoned or orphaned because of their…

Day 57 Paul · 74 km

Mueang Si Sa Ket to Mueang Ubon Ratchathani

We left late today at 7am, which gave us time to eat breakfast at Boonsiri Boutique Hotel. This boutique hotel has very decent rooms for only 450B per night. The hotel is 3 years…

Si Sa KetUbon Ratchathani
Day 56 Paul · 109 km

Mueang Surin to Mueang Si Sa Ket

Leaving Surin was hard, because I didn’t want to get out of bed. The freight train of on air conditioner rattled all night long and it didn’t help my sleeping… obviously the…

SurinSi Sa Ket
Day 55 Paul · 64 km

Mueang Buri Ram to Mueang Surin

One thing that becomes hard when blogging about bicycle touring is the fact that the days all become one and the stories become the same. You try hard to make them interesting and…

Buri RamSurin
Day 53 Paul · 116 km

Non Ding Dang to Mueang Buri Ram

Provinces: 30 Distance: 3,692 kms Time: 184 hours We are meeting people along the way today. A secondary school teacher, who is also a keen cyclist, has arranged for us to have…

Buri Ram
Day 52 Paul · 121 km

Mueang Sa Kaeo to Non Din Dang

Today Natt was feeling pretty bad. She had an upset tummy at 5am, so we went back to bed and waited for it to settle down. At around 7am she announced that her stomach was as good…

Sa KaeoBuri Ram
Day 50 Paul · 94 km

Province 29… Sa Kaew

Today was a painless day when compared to yesterday. We rode just under 90kms and my ass felt much better and the distance was easy. Hills were limited on today’s ride but the…

ChanthaburiSa Kaeo
Day 49 Paul · 125 km

Mueang Trat to Soi Dao

Hills and pimples. All cyclists know the pain of a pimple on their butts. It was fine a couple of days ago but today it is a mammoth ingrown-hair puss-ball waiting to explode, but…

TratChanthaburi
Day 48 Paul · 20 km

Trat and surrounds

We have made it to Trat’s provincial capital, the map shows we’ve done all the coast line and now we have ‘only’ got the interior of Thailand to go. Doesn’t sounds like much, does…

Trat
Day 47 Paul · 93 km

Chanthaburi to Trat(ish)

We left Chanthaburi at the best starting time. I would love to be able to tell you that Natt and I jump out of bed and are ready to roll fully energized everyday, but I will let…

ChanthaburiTrat