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Old and preserved town of Perast on the Bay of Kotor.

mountains on the coast Montenegro near Budva

Plastic bonfire on a beach in Montenegro.

Big concrete building for sale. Slept here for a night.

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Sailing from Thailand to Egypt
February 11, 2020

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Well I'm off... My bike is all strapped up and tomorrow morning I'll set sail from Thailand to India and hopefully onwards to Egypt! It's been an epic journey so far to get here and I'm glad I got the boat on time. Just spent the last few days getting ready to go. At least two weeks at sea to get to India, here's hoping for some fair winds ☺️ #sailing #yachtlife

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I'm just 100km from Thailand! Not sure how I feel really, though there is some sense that many years have culminated in this point. If all goes well I should cross the border at Mae Sot tomorrow afternoon. It's hard to think back about all that's happened since I left—for about half of my adult life. I'm still just enjoying rolling along, listening to music, eating lunch in the shade of a tree. Even throughout all the changes, not much has changed since those first pedal strokes away from my flat in Glasgow. I still love cycling as if I were a child on his first bicycle, cycling beyond the limits of the town, because...why not.

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I have decided to continue the rest of the way by horse!Actually these last weeks I've had to skip some things on a bus. I took 3 buses in total to make up lost time, but the good news is I will safely make it to Thailand and continue my itinerant life as a sea gypsy. In roughly 4-5 days I'll cycle across the border from Myanmar, in some way completing this arbitrary goal of cycling to Thailand from Spain. I had expected it would take me a year and a half, but it's been almost 4 years since I left Barcelona. When I look at the map it's hard to believe where I am.I'm also very much looking forward to seeing the sea again, it's been over 1 and a half years since I last saw it off the west coast of Turkey!
Now I'm just enjoying my last moments in Yangon before the last stretch of cycling in Southeast Asia.

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I'm in Myanmar! To say this place is lovely is an understatement! Juxtaposed with the near-constant noise and chaos of India, it's practically a paradise! Even the busy roads feel quiet, it's flat, it's like 25 degrees every day. There are little bars at the roadside where you can get a beer for 50p, you can eat buffet meals for a quid. All the food in the second picture cost £2.60, and we only asked for one thing! ...And it's free refill! The food is also a lot like in South China, so I'm actually quite used to it. The people are so smiley too! Last night I floated down the Chindwinn river on barge. There was no food on board so at various times people would come out on wooden longboats and sell various snacks and dinner (and beer ☺️). Finally, the whole country seems to be decorated with pagodas and temples like some kind of spiritual Disneyland; they're everywhere! What a place!

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The last few days in India, where I rode across the very hilly region of Manipur on the way to Myanmar. It was probably my favourite part of India, the locals were so kind and friendly, inviting us for dinner, tea and letting us camp wherever we liked! Also, I've never seen such a dense carpet of trees! The whole area is practically green except at higher altitude. I met another cyclist, Sam, who has cycled 80,000km and plans on going twice around the world. Unfortunately the world had other ideas for him and we added two days to a three-day ride, his derailleur snapped off and then his tyre exploded the next day. We made it to Myanmar eventually though! Crossing the border 2 days ago and saying goodbye to India ☺️ by the way...I forgot to say I got another ukulele! 🎶🎸

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The last couple of weeks in India have been pretty cool...I did not expect to find such diversity in the people in the north east...crossing a state boundary is like crossing into a different country; they speak a different language, the religion often changes and the people look different from what you could say is typically Indian. For New Year I was struggling to find a place in the hills of Meghalaya (the rainiest place in the world! It's not Scotland?), and was kindly invited into a family's home to see in 2020. From there I descended into the tropical jungle just a kilometre from Bangladesh, and this amazing blue river.

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Sailing from Thailand to Egypt
February 11, 2020
I’m Coming Home…Maybe
December 15, 2019
Cycling Kashgar: A Sickening Introduction into Chinese Control
November 26, 2019
Welcome to China: Cycling into Xinjiang
November 7, 2019

Distance Cycled

41,468 km

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Sailing from Thailand to Egypt
February 11, 2020
I’m Coming Home…Maybe
December 15, 2019
Cycling Kashgar: A Sickening Introduction into Chinese Control
November 26, 2019
Welcome to China: Cycling into Xinjiang
November 7, 2019

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