Day 294 – Wednesday, February 12th 2014 Getting an early start after a breakfast on the gas station forecourt, we arrived in Guwahati, the largest city in the north-east by quite some margin, at around 2:30. We were forced to negotiate quite hard against the cities many one way systems before we were permitted to … Continue reading
Day 283 – Saturday, February 1st 2014 We awoke in that most colonial outpost of North East India: Darjeeling. At 2000 meters above sea level, it had been refreshingly cool overnight – calling for cosy thick bedcovers, and within a few minutes’ walk of the Gymkhana parking lot we would be treated to a view … Continue reading
Day 272 – Tuesday, January 21st 2014 We were getting closer to Ivor, and to resuming our life on the road, but we were not there yet. We woke in our KL hotel and had ourselves shuttled to the airport ready for our last flight back to Nepal. After a Mc-Breakfast we boarded our flight, … Continue reading
… Where women glow, and men plunder. So the song goes. But then it also claims “Where beer flows and men chunder”, which is plainly disgusting – so instead of quoting terrible pop songs, how about we get on with the blog? Day 243 – Monday, December 23rd 2013 When in Rome, eat pizza and … Continue reading
Day 225 – Thursday, December 5th 2013 After suffering through an atrocious stop over between flights at Kuala Lumpur LCC – arriving at 4am, and with a departure at around midday we got what little sleep we could manage slumped at McDonald’s tables. Don’t worry – we are aware that we are on a massive … Continue reading
Day 207 – Sunday, November 17th 2013 Eggs Benedict; A good way to start the day, so might as well serve as the start to our blog. Having spent a little time in Pokhara, we had managed to track down all of the essentials – like where to get a damn good breakfast overlooking Lake … Continue reading
Day 187 – Monday, October 28th 2013 Oulala… this trek thing was nearly upon us. The fear of these mighty Himalaya things had spawned a last minute order of bike bits, which we had delivered to Jagan. There were some lower gears for V to crawl his way up these mountains, and bigger brakes for … Continue reading
Day 163 – Friday, October 4th 2013 Having been surprised at the authorities’ efficiency at the border we were on the road around midday, we’d only dared to hope that we might get the paperwork and such completed in a single day. Our first priority was to track down a working ATM, of which there … Continue reading
Day 157 – Saturday, September 28th 2013 Our next major target for our sprint through India was to be Agra, the site of the Taj Mahal, but since that was so far off in the distance (600km is a loooong way on Indian roads), that we felt that the detour in to the ruins of … Continue reading
Day 147 – Wednesday, September 18th 2013 Some good news to start the day – Ivor’s troubles on the way back into town were simply the result of a blocked fuel filter. We had plenty of spares with us, so with new unit installed Ivor was running fine again in no time. We spent the … Continue reading
down the road we go 