Simon Stokes is going to ride a motorbike 2,500km across Africa, to raise money for *Riders for Health* charity. The donations will provide a motorbike and training for the charity that distributes aid and medicine to Africa's most difficult areas to reach. Each motorbike saves an estimated 20,000 lives. This blog is a commentary of my epic journey to (and then through) Africa, for all the right reasons...
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Cambodia is the maddest place ... ever
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I've just come back from a 'dress' rehearsal, practice run bike trip through Cambodia. And that place is as mad as bag of frogs. I will put up a longer post over Christmas, but basically we (me, TC and 4 friends) did 500 miles over 6 days, off road through jungles, hils, rivers and trails. It was epic. I'm sure it's a beautiful country, I just didn't see much of it cos I was hanging on to a screaming 2-stroke beast that was charging through sandy, rocky, muddy trails a\t 4o miles an hour.
There only have 2 rules in Cambodia: Rule 1: No headlights during the day (unless you're immportant.. and if you have to ask...) Rule 2: No other rules!
Here's an example of a ferry. And this was the deluxe version. Anyway, enough of that and more later.
Please dig deep for the great cause that is Riders for Health. .........
At last we've broken the deadlock ... we've swapped the Tibbet does Tibbet classical music CD for a copy of Casino Royale - a full one year before it officially hits the streets. So if you want a Christmas supping martinis with 007, get your swapping hat on and put to one side those generous but utterly-not-you Christmas presents. To swap, just add your comment to this post and we'll find the best swap...
We're going to keep going till we get to a new motorbike or beyond. ................
Well, the dust is settling and the party balloons are popped. We had a cracking night at Halo bar in Battersea. After a terrifyingly slow start (where even the other party organiser didn't show up till 9pm) the venue slowly but surely filled out.
We had some great (complimentary) DJ's [a HUUUGE thanks to Linda, Sam and Ben - top work] playing some eclectic but uplifting music, and they managed to get the more adventurous up on the dance stage.
We raised £400 for Enduro Africa so a massive thanks to everyone who came and / or donated. We'll be having another one around Easter time so watch this space.
I will put up a longer post over Christmas, but basically we (me, TC and 4 friends) did 500 miles over 6 days, off road through jungles, hils, rivers and trails. It was epic. I'm sure it's a beautiful country, I just didn't see much of it cos I was hanging on to a screaming 2-stroke beast that was charging through sandy, rocky, muddy trails a\t 4o miles an hour. 
