Dy 77: Hua Hin to Petchaburi

​We lost a flag! 😞

Today was a beautiful day of riding the great roads of Thailand. From the wide roads of Hua Hin with bars, massage shops and the furniture stores as we left town, to the smooth rural roads with a wide cycle lane on the side, Thailand makes cycling super easy. ​

A shady break with the calming influence of Buddha to watch over us

Even a puncture couldn’t break the mood. It was just an opportunity to do a little more resting in the shade of a large billboard.  

Lunch was by a lily pond in a strangely Native American themed roadside café, where pad thais with some fish were finished off with a coconut dessert. Bliss. 

After the mammoth ride yesterday we’d set our sights a little lower for today and were just doing 70km, so we rolled into the medium sized military town of Phetchaburi at around 3pm with a nice chilled afternoon of recovery planned. That’s when we noticed the Blue Strawberry was missing it’s flag!

Tiger did some detective work with the videos we’d shot and we knew it was somewhere between 20 and 10 km back, but it was 30° and we were a bit knackered so we mourned it’s loss and set about working out how to replace it. 

Our flag - lost somewhere south of Petchaburi.

Luckily we’re off to Bengaluru next, so i’m putting my faith in the flag makers of India to be able to sort us out a matching pair of replacement flags to carry on our journey. 

Fingers crossed.  

Touring the world one laundromat at a time.  

 Sop press:

For evening meal we’ve been introduced to my kratha, Thai barbecue. We’re now roasting our own prawns and squid over a searing hot plate... and sweating!