A year ago today we lifted Quo Vadis out to start work on her at Scott Bradley’s yard, ‘Precision Shipwrights’ in Phuket Boat Lagoon, the last 2 stories refer to that refit…
We had time to spare in Singapore waiting while the boat yard replaced our flaking antifoul, it was to be a 3 week process; a good opportunity for some land travel. We made a few bookings and a tentative intinerary for 2 weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam.
We took an evening flight from Siem Reap to Hanoi…
The cycle ride from Lhasa to Kathmandu was an experience I looked forward to for months and wouldn’t have missed for anything, -but it turned out to be no easy ‘ride in the park’…
Day 10: We started to ride this day at about 10am, we were led out of the city and onto a fast, sealed road, where we found we had a tail wind and it was gently downhill along the valley toward Shigatse, -it became a very fast ride!
We have finally broken free from Boat Lagoon Marina and Phuket!
Eight weeks ago we arrived back in Phuket and seven weeks ago Quo Vadis was lifted out of the water at Boat Lagoon for her repaint.
We expected Phuket to be the pinnacle of our cruising…but it hasn’t been so far…
When we sailed from Penang to Langkawi we thought we were back on Cook Strait!
The most notable landmark in Penang is the roadbridge joining the main town, Georgetown, to Butterworth on the mainland.