{"id":39880,"date":"2021-07-23T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=39880"},"modified":"2021-07-23T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:55:16","slug":"day-1095-vientiane-to-ba-khoksivilai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/day-1095-vientiane-to-ba-khoksivilai\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1095 -Vientiane to ba khoksivilai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 1095                                        20th July 2019
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 <\/span><\/span>33 miles (Vientiane to ba khoksivilai ) Average speed 10.6 mph Top speed 23 mph<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was awake for a good breakfast of fried eggs with salad and coffee. Then I rested in the dormitory with the Chinese and checked out at 12.<\/p>\n

On the ride to the football stadium the bike felt really good after Willy had done his wonders with the wheel and the transmission felt good. I went in search of a Buffalo hostel marked on maps me without much hope as I couldn\u2019t find any info on internet and it proved to be fruitless, so I went back and joined the road to the stadium.<\/p>\n

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the road to the stadium<\/p><\/div>\n

After a drink stop at a garage, I found the stadium and found many places to wild camp, but I wasn\u2019t sure if security would be too tight after the game. So I chose to head for another hostel marked on the map only to find that this didn\u2019t exist either. I had taken a sandy road to discover this and then it started to rain so I had another cold drink and went back to the main road to find a guesthouse.<\/p>\n

The lak  21 people welcomed me and showed me to a fanned hot room with a cold shower for 80000, but I was just happy to have somewhere to stay only 4 miles to the stadium. I rested and showered before trying to get a taxi or bus to the stadium having missed the first game. Amazingly no taxis or busses passed me in 20 minutes, so I returned to get my bike and ride there. I made it with twenty minutes to kick off and had three kebab skewers and a beer before entering the impressive stadium.<\/p>\n

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The stadium is impressive; the football not so much<\/p><\/div>\n

The quality of football was very poor and I wished I\u2019d brought my boots; oh no, I ditched those a long time ago, but the first touch of some of the players was worse than Hackney marshes on a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Lak 21 guesthouse 80000 kip and not even a key to lock the room!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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