101 Challenges:

Location: Bangkok - Thailand

We weren’t looking forward to today as this was the day of the “I Want To Ride My Bicycle” Challenge. Initially this Challenge was to be done all over Thailand but, on discovering that this country is quite a bit bigger than the picture we were looking at on a map (about two square inches), we decided it had to be tweaked a bit and so we were going to spend a whole day in amidst the busy city traffic. Sorry Huggerman.

There’s other reasons for this too.

If we were to bike it everywhere in Thailand, we’d never get through 101 Challenges as we’d i) still be stuck at the airport as bicycles aren’t allowed on the motorways, ii) probably be dead by now or at the very least, minus a limb or two.

A few of the Challenges have had to be changed because the telly people need us to be here or there at a certain time so that bigger Challenges can be filmed properly. If we were left to film everything ourselves, we’d just balls it all up.

We really couldn’t be ar*ed and we would have at least seven heart attacks each before we left the country as we are surprisingly not that fit (despite our amazingly athletic looking bodies fooling you to believe otherwise).

What you have to take into consideration here is before 10am has arrived, it’s already 30 degrees outside - noon comes and brings with it a further five degrees of blistering heat. The humidity here is unbearable. When you have a shower you dry yourself – then dry yourself again because you’re immediately saturated in your own sweat. It’s that hot!

Now, some people may argue that the Challenge could have been conducted during the early morning hours. But that’s unfeasible. In the early morning hours, we’re drunk!

Needless to say, we didn’t die and needless to say, we won’t ever be sitting on a bicycle ever again. This is a country with probably more taxis and tuc-tucs than people. There’s absolutely no need for two fat and hairy assed Scotsmen to kill themselves or hold up lanes of traffic. You never know, you could be behind us in a taxi driving at 3mph as we hog the road.