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20-02-2006, 00:37
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Crazy idea but
maybe worth discussing if we`re bored.
The cheapest way to thailand from the uk would be by bycycle, that is if you took a tent as lodgings would eat up the money. At a conservative 20 miles per day, how long would it take? And by what route? As I say it`s crazy, only if you`re bored............................ 
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20-02-2006, 01:13
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You would have to go through Turkey. Good luck cycling through there with a shiny bicycle and stuff worth nicking, lone travellers would be an irresistable target. (you would def be alone 'cos there's no way I'm going with you)
I do think about doing it on a motorbike from time to time though, that would be a great adventure.
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20-02-2006, 01:21
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It looks like we would go:
UK-France-Germany-Austria-Hungary-Croatia-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India-Burma-Thailand Of course, if you would rather avoid the Balkans and the Middles East, then we would have to go the Russia\China route and, skirting the minor inconvenience of the Himalayas, pick the route up in India.
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20-02-2006, 01:51
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20-02-2006, 04:37
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20-02-2006, 11:34
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My little brother continually talks about using a support vehicle and DV cams and doing BKK to London on a Honda wave !!! Doing it lad style and making a video diary then punting it to Ch 4 or one of the more alternative networks...
I seriously considered doing London to Capetown in a landrover once.. I have done UK to Morocco, Southern Algeria, Mautitainia, Spanish Sahara, enough times to have lost exact count (8 - 10) and enjoy overland adventures like that as its the unplannable and elements of risk that make life interesting.. Look at the Benedict Alan guy.. Now considered an 'explorer' / 'adventurer' and offered finance for any mad adventure for walking the Namib with a DV cam and a camel, no offence but hardly Mr Charisma.. To me the best job in the world would be David Attenbourghs or Micheal Palins.. Second best would be to carry his bags.. I really love that setting off into the unknown without a real plan.. Just money and a map and curiosity.. Really want to do China.. Getting a bit of a travel urge lately.. Always reminds of of that Tolkien lines (dont worry I know there was limericks but I am not gonna start spouting prose all the time).. "The road leads ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say." Makes me think of so many family adventures setting off in converted K9 military transports, horse coaches, etc, to hippy homes.. Doing the N african hippy trail (my auntie and her families did the Afgan to India route a few times, right through the Hindu Kush !!).. Those were adventures not holidays !!!
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20-02-2006, 16:27
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"The worst experience according to Tina Helen Pedersen was Phuket: “That is the most disgusting place I have ever been. Here you find fat and pale European men surrounded by young Thai girls. I really do not understand, why tourists are travelling to the other site of the earth to experience that”, she says. "
Must have been there when I was there. 
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20-02-2006, 22:46
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[quote=steve@thaib]It looks like we would go:
UK-France-Germany-Austria-Hungary-Croatia-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India -- Australia. I did this route in the 70s. using a VW. Combi van. Taking our time it took us 6 months. Ain't no way I'd consider going through Afghanistan now. It was a bit dicey even then but I reckon it would be suicidal now.
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21-02-2006, 00:15
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I was reading an interview with a Dutch tv-travel-celebrity... it appears that she is on the road 80% of her time. That doesnt leave you with a lot of private life. In fact, she explained how it ruined her relationship. But then again... maybe you two can travel together I am currently reading this book by the Aussie Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home. He travels overland from London to Sydney, on public transportation. I believe that he did this in the 90´s, visiting countries including Iran, Afghanistan, Thailand. I haven´t got any further than Pakistan so far - reading the book that is... 
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21-02-2006, 01:50
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A few years ago a guy pedaled from Sweden to Mount Everest and climbed Everest. He wrote a book about it and it occurred when a lot of climbers died on Everest, as written about in Krakauers book
Goran Kropp's epic bike trip from Sweden to Mt. Everest and back, and what it's like at the summit. Kropp's book is Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey. Talks about biking through certain countries and what he had to deal with.
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21-02-2006, 19:21
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I do think it would be nuts to go that way, even the Balkan's are dodgy so you could never get as far as Mid East. If you were doing a road trip now, it would make more sense to go Russia/China I guess, and they are opening up more and more.
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23-02-2006, 07:52
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6000 miles @ 10 months
 to get there for high season january start, first mile uphill in to a stiff ice cold wind lovely.think id get as far as putting bike clips on, but may change my mind after first trip
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23-02-2006, 14:13
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6,000 miles ... 10 months! ... food bill alone would be more than a 1st class ticket on Thai Airways !!
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27-02-2006, 23:53
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well, might be possible, but a former school teacher of mine once did Quairo-->capetown on a bicycle.... took him several month and a few times under gunfire... Well.. Mosti
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28-02-2006, 00:06
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had a friend who did a year long round the world bike tour and it cost him $30,000 for airline flights when needed(to get to Australia, New Zealand, US to Europe, Hawaii, South Pacific, accomodations around the world, and support vehicles and personel to keep the riders going including lunches on riding days and entry permits to all of the countries. He paid for meals except lunches on riding days and any partying and stuff like that.
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