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24 December 2018
Jodhpur —-> Balotra. 107 km. Thurs 20th Dec. Paratha is our Indian breakfast of choice these days, so if our accommodation will serve it early enough for us, we will always go for it. This was the case today, so after potato and mixed vegetable parathas and a large mug of chai we were off […]
14 December 2018
Jaipur is known as the pink city because when Queen Victoria came to visit in 1876, the entire city was painted pink – the colour of hospitality. And it’s still pretty pink – as well as a lot cleaner and less chaotic than Delhi! On our first night here, we learned so much about Jaipur […]
12 December 2018
Dehli —-> Bhiwadi. Saturday 8 Dec. 90km. We left Delhi on Saturday morning, more excited to be on our bikes than anything else. Our week there had given us a certain comfort level with the traffic so although we knew it would be crazy it didn’t completely scare us. We had planned to take the main […]
4 December 2018
Our original plan for this trip was to fly from Istanbul to Pakistan. However by the time we had realised that we could only apply for a tourist visa from our home country (as opposed to doing it from the consulate in Istanbul for example) it was too late to give our passports up for […]
2 December 2018
We have seen and experienced 17 countries on our travels so far, which has been educational, eye-opening and just absolutely brilliant. However of everything we have seen and done it has been the people that have made the trip for us, and we have been very lucky to meet some amazing people and make some […]
21 November 2018
We were woken by the ‘call to prayer’ in Kesan on Saturday morning when it was still dark. We have discovered that it goes from day to night and vice versa like the flick of a switch here, so by the time it was daylight at 8.15 we had the bikes packed and were ready to […]