The masonry layout
22 April 2019
Wednesday 17 April 19. So, we made it to Aizawl a bit sooner than we had expected but that sort of worked in our favour. As Easter weekend was coming up and this is a really very staunch Christian region, from Friday onwards a lot of shops, government departments, etc would be on shorter working […]
18 April 2019
Agartala to Ambassa. Saturday 13 April. 86 hot, sweaty and bloody hard kilometres! While the Brexit shenanigans rage on in the U.K., the political focus in India is their parliamentary election, which is by far the world’s biggest democratic election. With 900 million eligible voters, it’s 4 times the size of the US election and […]
16 April 2019
Of all the countries we have visited so far Bangladesh has by far been the most surprising. Though we had little evidence of what the county or its people would be like, our pre-visit impression was that it would be a means-to-an-end to get new Indian visas, a country we would “endure” rather than “enjoy” […]
14 April 2019
So, we had one last afternoon and evening with Arif. I suppose we could have gone for another bike ride, but we spend a lot of time on our bikes and it seemed like a nicer idea to have a wander around Sylhet on foot. Arif came with us and acted as our guide so […]
12 April 2019
Monday 18 March 2019. India —-> Bangladesh (Petrapole to Benapole) We crossed the border on bicycles from Petrapole in India to Benapole in Bangladesh using a Visa on Arrival (VOA). This border crossing is open 7 days a week on both sides. We arrived at Petrapole around 7.30 am as we had no idea how […]
9 April 2019
Wed 3 April. Dhaka to Kapasia. 71km. As well as all the great stuff we did and saw in Dhaka we finally finished the entire 5-series of Breaking Bad, which we started in Belgrade….just goes to show how little screen-time we have! We will now move on to the latest series of Peaky Blinders…. after […]