the bicycles are ready!

This is Thailand: they are so organised here that they have put little signs in our hotel to ask people to get ready for the lift. And as you can see the lifts are quite sensitive here...

We spent yesterday opening the big cardboard boxes and putting together our yellow bicycles in front of the guesthouse. We were interupted half way through by a thunderstorm and sat down for a lovely chat with Bruno and Annick, experienced touring cyclists (http://www.roulmaloute.com/). So nice to meet fellow cyclists in the same hotel.

And all went well on the assembly line, as you can see on the pictures of delighted Harriet and Sylv. lready, we've attracted interest: some of the hotel's staff asked us questions and smiled a lot.

Next step was fitting all our things in the paniers. And that went well too, we even have some spare space, maybe for some nice food?

We went for a little ride around Bangkok today to test things out, adjust saddles and handlebars, etc. Such a nice feeling to be on a bike, seeing so much more than on a bus or in a car and stopping wherever we felt like it, at the market to buy some fresh fruit or some sleeves?!? Yes this is Harriet's latest purchase: a pair of sleeves that she can wear while cycling to procted her skin from the sun. Quite fashionable here in Thailand. They look a bit like this:

Let us know if you'd like some for Christmas.

We're off tomorrow, heading North...