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18 February 2019
Kalaburagi to Humnabad. 64km. Tues 13 Feb. So in a reversal of fortune from the last few days when we have slightly fallen out of love with India and its people, we had a great day today in terms of people interactions. However just to reiterate the current obsession with selfies in India (and it has to […]
9 February 2019
Hubballi—> Koppal. 122km. 5 Feb. So after a spicy couscous-like breakfast with Vivitt we said our goodbyes and were on the road by 8am. I can’t really say that it was a boring day as no cycling day in India is ever boring. But there was nothing much to report other than it was a […]
1 February 2019
Ambolgad —-> Kunkeshwar. 56km. 27 Jan. Being in the absolute middle of nowhere last night it was deathly quiet so we both slept really well, and after our usual Indian breakfast of Poha and chai we set off on for what we had planned would be a shorter day. Poha is beaten rice (how […]
23 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
1 January 2019
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 […]