Riddle 1: How to put 8 mattresses on a scooter? Answer: Take 8 mattresses and put them on the scooter! Cambodians have understood … when I think I’m struggling to get an Ikea shelf in a Paugeot 309 in France! Riddle 2: What do Cambodians do with scooters and trucks full of mattresses that we […]
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Some pictures: So. There are times when we forget to feel like tourists… Never mind, go to Angkor and it’s done! First: Siem Reap, town a few kilometers from Angkor, where he did not take us 10 minutes to realize that this city is not Cambodian: we meet a lot of western people, sometimes dressed […]
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Some moves on the road: Traveling with a young child is not always easy. Besides the fact that 3 years old he is still in “terrible 2” crisis, Driss fell sick in Kampong Cham, a town without much interest in the center of Cambodia. 39 degree fever, a bad cough and stuffy nose, here we […]
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Before leaving Laos we spent a few days on Si Phan Don (4000 Islands) to feel time passing and stay a little after 5 months on the road … Good opportunity for some swimming, walks and dinners on Don Khone with Delphine, Franck and their daughters Ines and Kripa who Driss played a lot with; […]
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After riding so much in the heat, especially a day we biked more than 100 kilometers, we decided to take the Lao rythm: Before going to bed, nothing like a nap. We are not far from the Cambodian border and therefore we are in Si Phan Don (4000 Islands) along the Mekong to relax properly […]
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There is rabbits in Laos! similar as europeans but really bigger and they spend their days lazing on the roadside. Which does not disorient us either, is the famous “wind in the face” that accompanies us sometimes since we left France more than 4 months ago. It was with us along Road 13 that we […]
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Because of a mountain and of the time available in Laos, we made some unfidelity to our bikes by 3 steps by bus, with all the fuss (bikes, trailer and panniers) on the roof: a poem. Once that decision made that does not stop us of rushing into our bikes in order to fight the […]
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First, a little trailer: After a week of rest and acclimatization in Vientiane, where we did not do much because of the oppressive heat, we took our bikes to ride towards the south via Road 13 along the Mekong river down to Cambodia. To avoid the heat we had planned to leave at 7am, but […]
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No, Aunty goes away! This is the cry of Drissou in the morning into the campsite. Every morning when we reassemble our tents when pulling the last pick, Driss exclaimed joyfully: “Nooooooo the tent goes away!” And with a little less joy we shouted the same phrase to say goodbye to Marianne called Tata […]
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It is with great emotion, a bottle of Champagne and swedish Kaviar tube that we celebrate the end of our European trip! Marianne and Antoine finally go home and Bérengere, Driss and Matthias flight to Asian backgrounds where they have not already fucked up. So we can say it’s time to make a balance. Here […]
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