Posts made in March, 2025

20. The Other Side

Posted by on 11, Mar 2025 in 2024 - SE Asia, Asia, Malaysia, Tilly the Tandem | 1 comment

20. The Other Side

Hello Malaysia We cleared immigration into Malaysia easily, it being the best organised border crossings we’ve done. We could even remain with Tilly for all the formalities instead of having to leave her outside. The only odd thing was the Malaysian Muslim officers spent about 30 seconds looking Linda up and down and  comparing her online declaration with her passport and just glanced at me and mine! It’s Ramadan here so we have to try to eat discreetly during the day apparently. So we found a Chinese temple and plonked ourselves down on a bench and had lunch whilst deciding...

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19. Man overboard…

Posted by on 6, Mar 2025 in 2024 - SE Asia, Asia, Malaysia, Thailand, Tilly the Tandem | 1 comment

19. Man overboard…

We’d been told that the national park south of us wasn’t even a hill by some fellow tandemers, who shall remain nameless, so after a lovely couple of days relaxing for my Birthday, we merrily tried to cycle up an 18% “not-a-hill” and did what a Corporation would call, “an involuntary dismount” or as a football crowd would much more honestly chant “He fell over!”  We were fine going down the not-a-hill before the up bit, but that was too steep, too soon and I failed to get the right gear quickly enough and we went over sideways and missed the...

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