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A Date with the Dyke (Dijk)

Our first morning getting up after camping was not our finest – stuff lost, missing, found, lost again, etc, etc! We’re not used to it yet and we realise that it’ll get slicker as we get to do it more, but we definitely made it look very difficult.  The upshot of this was that we […]

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Life in the Netherlands

Spent a lovely evening with Sue and Phil in the Pier Hotel in Old Harwich, good company and good food.  I think we covered just about every topic in the ‘life, the universe and everything’ compendium! A special thanks for our custom-made waterproof bags for our gadget cables – specially designed and crafted by Sue […]

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Day 1 – North London to Chelmsford

Didn’t sleep too well to be perfectly honest! Martina stayed up later and slept okay, but neither of us had a full night’s sleep – we put it down to the nerves/excitement! Over the weekend we got rid of the very last of our stuff either at the charity shop or in Dina and Trent’s […]

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London – Practice Packing

Had a bit of a night out with Trent last night and Martina stayed in with Dina and ‘bubbles’ and so today wasn’t our finest!  However, we did manage to have a practice pack this afternoon and successfully got all our stuff into our panniers which is a bit of a bonus!

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London – Bangladesh Consulate

So, with our passports back we decided to go to the Bangladesh embassy to see if we could get a visa for late March 19 when we plan to cross the border from India.  We’d been there a couple of times and this time had all the documentation only to find that they’d have to […]

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London – An Update on Our Departure

No delay, we’re back on for a Monday 2 April departure!  The India consulate visa application centre texted us today to say that our visas had been processed.  We called them and told them to hold the courier as we could pick them up easily.  We had intended to have them sent to our friend […]

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