Launch of Rolling Adventures

Al and I have decided to merge our blogs to create one. Rolling Adventures is our space for sharing our passion: BIKES!! with you. We are keen to share our stories and the hilarious situations we seem to find ourselves in during our rides, races, holidays and our general thoughts on life riding bikes!! Enjoy!!

We'll kick it off with some photos from our recent cycle-tour around Cambodia!!


Aviator Al ready to hit the road. Leaving Skoun for Kampong Thom.
Day One: 75k, Day Two: 91km, Day Three: 150km
 

Spent a couple of days riding around Angkor Wat Temples- this place is AMAZING!!


 

Our Cambodian mate. When we got to the airport there he was with a sign ALISTAIR GRIBBLE. Al's response, "Do you think he means me??" Turns out one of Al's students last term had an Uncle in Phnom
Penh and he was kind enough to come collect us and
then gave us a tour of the city, took us out to a lovely restuarant
and on a cruise down the Mekong.

Lots of places to rest along the way on Highway 6, chillin on the hammock rehydrating

Al is a hit with the kids where ever he goes!! The Cambodian children were so so friendly, and our overuse injury was not legs but arms got so sore from waving the whole time!! Lost our voices from saying hello! so many times the whole way! Alot of these kids have nothing, yet they are so happy and so friendly.

The Cambodian people are still recovering from the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pots, who was responsible for the death of 3.5 million Cambodian people, about a third of the population, between 1975-1979 Visiting S-21 a high school that had been turned into a prison/torture chambers was  sickening. Cambodia was once a power nation, with the Singapore President visiting and claiming if one day Singapore could be as great as Cambodia. Now, Cambodia is a developing nation. We saw many people with deformities, with missing limbs due to land mines, beggers and people with absolutely nothing. The devestating things some of these people have seen and faced was truly unbelievable and very confronting, it is all still very evident. Amongst the poverty and sadness was a nation full of amazingly beautiful, friendly and caring people. They proved that money doesnt buy happiness, it doesnt even come close.