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2 April 2019
I remember just over a year ago someone asking me where I thought I’d be in a years’ time. I stuck a wet finger in the air and said “probably Bangladesh at a guess”, which at the time was less a certainty and more out of hope to be honest! But here we are, one […]
28 March 2019
We arrived in our 12th capital city of our tour, Dhaka, on Friday 22nd March into Sadarghat port. This is normally one of the city’s busiest areass but because it was around 7am on a Friday, which is the start of their weekend and a day of prayer for the mainly Muslin population, it […]
22 March 2019
Monday 18 March. Bongaon to Jessore (Bangladesh). 46km. For some reason I’d expected the border between India and Bangladesh to be wide open fields, but in reality it’s surrounded by trees. We were crossing at Petrapole (on the Indian side) and Benapole (on the Bangladesh side), which is the main land border between the two […]
19 March 2019
We spent a total of 107 days in India, of which we were on the road for 74 of those days, covering 5,773km and averaging 78km per day. When we were planning this trip India was definitely where we thought our adventure would really begin – and we were right. To a certain extent we […]
18 March 2019
Cuttack to Bhadrak. 10 March. 103km. We were on the road by 7am, feeling guilty for having had to wake Bapu up to say good bye, but we had a big day to cover and wanted to be on the road early – and as has been the case recently we were already sweating […]
12 March 2019
Sambalpur to Redhakhol – 75km As we have already mentioned, we are on our way to the Bangladesh border, so our cycling over the next week-or-so is very much functional; we’re not planning to stop to sightsee unless it happens by accident! One thing we have noticed recently as we have transited east is that […]