Well this is different. We awoke to lightening, thunder, teeming rain, cold and ground level cloud. It made loading the car interesting, more a dash and stash whilst wielding an umbrella with the third hand. It also meant that as Paul dealt with an electrical fault on Cureton’s Jaguar he could use the wheel …
Day 34 — Thong Nguyen to Dong Van
Yesterday was an epic day and surely today could not match it, could it? Well, it could even have surpassed it. We were promised that the road would be good, which it was for the most part and the scenery equally as good as the day before but it exceeded it by some margin. We …
Day 35 — Dong Van to Cao Bang
It might have only been 6.30am but we were keen to get going so the car park was a hive of activity We are skirting the Chinese border today and the landscape is a continuation of yesterday’s epic grandeur, with the occasional typical wooden house nestled into the side of a hill. And it did …