{"id":699359,"date":"2026-01-16T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699359\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:04:11","slug":"cheshire-cyclists-eventful-end-to-uk-to-thailand-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699359\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheshire cyclist&#8217;s &#8216;eventful end&#8217; to UK to Thailand trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From there, they continued through the lowland areas of Nepal, where they had to keep an eye out for tigers, elephants and rhinos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They made it to Pokhara where they began the Annapurna Circuit &#8211; but that was when Olly broke his collarbone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My mum was flying out to meet me in Pokhara that day and ended up spending five days with me in hospital,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair had been hoping to do some trekking in the mountains, but Olly&#8217;s injury meant that was no longer possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, they did some smaller treks before his mother returned home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olly flew on to Bangkok on 1 December to reunite with Ellie, and the couple have since travelled through northern Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It feels great to look back on how far I&#8217;ve come, we had a good time despite what happened,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If something&#8217;s happened that you can&#8217;t change, being in a bad mood isn&#8217;t going to make it better it&#8217;s only going to worsen your experience so I try and make something good out of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Breaking my collarbone wasn&#8217;t ideal, but it made for an eventful end to the trip and it probably happened at the best spot in the journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From there, they continued through the lowland areas of Nepal, where they had to keep an eye out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-699359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115903506896975519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}