India

India is like an emotional roller coaster ride with extreme sights and smells, it picks you up, questions everything you thought you understood and drops you back down with a bump! I first visited India 5 years ago and travelled from Delhi west throughout Rajasthan and south down the West coast to Mumbai and Goa, […]

Days 205 & 206 – 28th / 29th October 2014 Imphal

I’ve been staying in a half decent hotel over the past few days so for a change I had a breakfast buffet which was great. Off to get fuel, cash, wash the bike and do some bike maintenance on day one, getting the bike washed and cash was easy but there has been a fuel […]

Day 203 – 26th October 2014 Silchar

I woke early and my calf muscles were killing me, it was 48 hours ago I climbed down 2,000 steps and up again visiting the ‘living bridges’, I have only myself to blame as my preparation was zero! I can’t have watched TV more than a handful of times since I left home so I […]

Day 201 – 24th October 2014 Leave 8am Miles rode 53 Cherrapunji – Shillong

It was a beautiful morning in ‘The Rainiest Place on Planet Earth’. We didn’t have far to ride as we were hiking today to the living bridges, it was 20km along the mountain ridge before we weaved down a few hundred metres looking out at the tropical forest wrapping itself around the amazing valley around […]

Days 192 to 195 – 15th / 18th October 2014 Darjeeling

Darjeeling is magically perched high up in the Himalayas above the clouds. As usual I’m in a budget hotel, this time though I have a massive window maybe 3 x 4 metres with a great view of darjeeling life and the green valley beyond so I’ve spent my days working in my room (I have […]