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  • Incredible India!!

    A little wrap-up of our thoughts on a country that was wonderful, yet oh so challenging in all sorts of ways The roads… Nowhere near as scary as we thought they might be! We managed to navigate our way through the megacities of Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi without any angst and we reckon we’re almost hardened…

  • Agra to Delhi

    Well…we couldn’t come this close and not pop in a visit to the Taj Mahal. After three days of VERY hot riding we thought we’d have a bit of luxe in Agra (yeah, we’re really getting soft) and checked into the Radisson. Nice. But kinda weird. Where else would you advertise a two for one…

  • Rajasthan

    Day 41-42 in India 1100km by train…well that took away a bit of pedal power! But oh my, Indian trains. They are something…even when you book a first class cabin…There was nothing terribly plush about first class…so just imagine what the crowded sleeper class would have been like! We did have the luxury of a…

  • Ferries and more ferries…the road to Mumbai

    We’re taking turns to write so you’ll have to figure it out for yourselves… Sunday 22nd Sept, Day 34 in India 🙂 Another lazyish start to the day, Neil’s turn to have a dodgy tummy so we took it easy and got going around 10ish. Not so far in kms today but a few brutal…

  • Hopping up the coast

    Neil’s turn to blog…with a couple of interjections 😉 Wednesday 18th Sept-Day 30 in India! Resuming our trip up tour after a week of laziness and mild illness in Goa, A ferry ride across a river took us to the state of Matarashna. Immediately there were no more bars and fewer little shops.  The landscape…

  • Goa- Sand and Sundowners!

    Day 24- 29 in India…beach hopping 🙂 Well…Goa is rather different to everywhere else we’ve been so far in India.As soon as we crossed the border the change was evident. Green roadsides, barely any rubbish and strict road regulations enforced. Quite noticeably, the number of bars/liquor shops now outnumber most other retail outlets- very unlike…

  • Monsoon season!

    Day 22-24 in India…out of Karmataka into Goa So…Neil spent quite a bit of time researching the weather in the region before we left Oz.  He pretty carefully planned some likely routes to try and avoid the worst of the monsoons in both Sri Lanka and India.  And full credit- he’s nailed it for the…

  • Karnataka

    Our third Indian state…and very different again to Kerala and Tamil Nadu Our introduction to Karnataka was Bangalore- so we didn’t expect it to be representative of the rest of the state. 15 million or so people in one little space surely can’t provide an overview of a land mass covering over 190 000 sq…