We hit the ground in Yangon the capital in the early evening and caught a taxi to our first hotel. Of course, I scandalised Randi by immediately asking what the taxi driver thought about the political situation! However he was happy to chat, though he said a year or two previously he would have changed the subject rather than risk a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning! We found the hotel, an operation run by an Australian, Jeff, who runs bicycle tours and his Burmese wife Soe-Soe who runs the accommodation side. They were wonderfully hospitable and welcoming. Another part of the crew was Tony, a french pizza chef who had come to buy a bike and stayed. He knew exactly what it took to make a gluten-free pizza so we enjoyed the luxury of pizza on two of the three nights we were there. Gluten-free bread also appeared on the breakfast table, and there was discussion about whether the German or Italian gluten-free flour produced the better bread!!
 Courtyard of the Bike World B&B |
|  Going to the station |  The train ticket was *very* cheap! |
 Train passing |  Food sellers up and down the train during the trip downtown |  Read the translation! |  Downtown Yangon |
