Fuddsie's and Sooty's Adventures

Preparation

baznjannie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:33:00 GMT

We are busy cycling around the Mid North Coast area of New South Wales to prepare ourselves for cycling Central Europe. Our plan is to cycle the Danube from Donauueschingen in Germany to Budapest in Hungary. We will do some side trips along the way such as the Austrian lakes and Lake Baliton in Hungary. The second sector will take us along the Amber Trail through Slovakia to Krakow in Poland followed by some touring around southern Poland. On the third sector we will cycle fom Krakow to Trutnov, Czech Republic near the headwaters of the Elbe River. We will follow the Elbe to the North Sea again having some side trips along the way and then up to Copenhagen in Denmark to fly to Singapore. We will train it to Thailand and spend 3 weeks around southern Thailand, basing ourselves in Hatyai

A big plan cycling over 4000km in 11 weeks- we will see how we go as plans are made to be changed.

Our new adventure

baznjannie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:57:00 GMT

Well as you can see we are still in Thailand. Ten days before we were due to leave here Barry fell off his bicycle and broke his leg. He now has plaster from his toes to thigh and has limited mobility, as you can see from the photo. The plaster is on for 6-8 weeks, another month on crutches and will not be able to cycle for a month after coming off the crutches. As a result we have had to cancel all our tickets etc and rethink our next adventure.

Europe will be heading into winter before we can get our cycling fitness back so we have put that trip back to 2010. We will probably still do India in June if all is well then home to Australia for a while.

What are we doing now? Basically we are unemployed and bored as Barry cannot get around. We fill our days planning new adventures and counting the days to when we can book some airline tickets. We will keep you informed.

Predeparture

baznjannie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:39:00 GMT

We are preparing for our departure from Thailand, our home for the past 2 years. It is a very sad time saying goodbye to our students, Thai teachers and friends but our gypsie blood is on the boil so it is time for another adventure.

At times we thought we would not get to India as many obstacles have surfaced but we faced them head on and we hope we have won.

The process of getting an Indian visa in Thailand when you live in the far south is time consuming and inconvenient. Although there is an Indian Consulate in neighbouring Songkhla (25 km away) we had to make 2 trips to Bangkok, one overnight and you must use an agent. This meant 3 days away from school and a substantial increase in cost. We now have our passport, with visa in our possession.

During our time in Hatyai it has gone from an International to a small regional airport so we had to research the viable options to get to India. We finally decided on the overnight train to Singapore and then fly to Mumbai.

The next hurdle was our bicycles as although Thai Railways will take bicycles, Malaysian Railways will not, so back to the drawing board. We are sending them with UPS to Mumbai where we will collect them on our arrival. They will be picked up from our houise in Hatyai on the 22nd March and we are hoping they will be in India when we arrive. UPS have quoted a price, time of delivery and date of collection so all should be okay but, as in China things are not as they seem here in Thailand.

We now are in the midst of a busy social calender with farewell parties and dinners with many tears and laughter.

Gallery: Thailand

baznjannie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:59:00 GMT