January 2019

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Velas to Ambolgad

Velas to Harnai – 46km. Our home stay host provided us with a great breakfast of home-made poa before the obligatory photoshoot prior to us setting out. Martina spoke to her brother on the phone and it turns out that we were her first western guests. And when we looked at the visitors register, her […]

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Pune to Velas….by the sea!

Pune to Bhor. 63km. 20 Jan. So after 8 days of being spoiled by the Vakharia family, we were 2 sad lifecyclers leaving Pune on Sunday morning. We had extended our stay with them by 5 days as we both fought of colds and were feeling pretty rough…and we think we left Jatin with Nigel’s […]

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New-found fame on our way to Pune!

Mumbai to Lonavala – 96, hard won, km! So, after our impromptu beers last night the 6am alarm this morning wasn’t welcome at all! After fighting the traffic on the way into Mumbai we’d decided on an early get-up in the hope that we might have a bit of an easier ride on the way […]

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Marvellously Manic Mumbai

Vasai——> Mulund East.  48km. 7 Jan. So our journey into the greater Mumbai area started here.  As we are not on a specific agenda we decided to take it slowly in terms of  distance covered and do it over 2 days. So we left the hotel in Vasai a bit later than normal as we had […]

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Vadodara to Vasai (Mumbai outskirts)

It was always likely that one or both of us would get sick during our tour and the first bout goes to me! In the week leading up to Christmas I really didn’t want to be more than a few steps from a  toilet and after 5 days I was feeling pretty jaded as it […]

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Udiapur to Vadodara

Udaipur —-> Barothi. 107km. 28 December. So we woke up in much better form today and after a breakfast of omlette and potato parathas we headed off early, with no definitive destination in mind other than the general direction of Ahmedabad, which we reckon will take us 3 days. Ahmedabad is the place of Ghandi’s […]

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