India

12 posts

Our final beachfront hotel in Goa gives us a brief taste of how many foreigners choose to experience India. It’s significantly more expensive here and the sand is hotter than the surface of the sun, yet the sweaty sun worshippers persist in their mission for the perfect tan. it was nice to catch up with […]

3 Mar 2025

Going Goa Gone

Sometimes it can be information overload out here – a cacophony of colour, sound and smell so the helpful signs we encounter along the way can form anchor points in our memories. Here are just a few of our favourites from India….

26 Feb 2025

Give us a sign

The landscape and climate have changed dramatically by the time we reach Hampi. This unfamiliar arid landscape leaves me wondering why such a significant city was built here in the first place. Many of the huge boulders that make up the landscape here bear the marks of a thousand strikes with a hammer and chisel […]

23 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

Hampi and you know it..

The unwelcome and nagging pain of an old injury (I’m fine, just in need of some time resting off the bike) and the sudden realisation that it’s February already, led us to fully experience the complexities of Indian driving from the inside. Thank goodness the car had seatbelts. Early on in our trip we’d realised […]

15 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

Can we have the bill, please?

Since our last blog Gez has celebrated another trip around the sun and we’ve been zig-zagging our way north west ish through Karnataka via Devadana, Shivamogga and Sagara. Seeking out fun bridges and Dracos as we ride. The wildlife here is truly amazing and every time we set foot even slightly out of the Western […]

13 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

I don’t like cricket

After a brief foray to the coast for a coconut or three we remembered that we are just not beach people (unless of course the surf is up) and state highways are absolutely not fun to cycle on. So we found another random hill to sweat up and headed back inland to Madikeri, in the […]

3 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

We are Coorg

A few days before our flight from London in November 2024 I was fortunate enough to bump into a hand full of Keralans who are currently doing an outstanding job holding our NHS together. This chance encounter provided us with a list of recommended places ‘away from the crowds’ and what stunning recommendations they have […]

21 Jan 2025

Waylaid in Wayanad

At a height of 2240m, Ooty and the surrounding peaks definitely qualify as proper mountains. As well as being a hive of human activity these mountains are absolutely full of wildlife – check out David Attenborough’s “Asia” series on to find out just how full! We had hoped to employ the Ooty “toy train” to […]

9 Jan 2025

India Tamil Nadu

Tigers, Bears and Dynamite

The icing on our Keralan Christmas cake was a stunning bike ride down through tea plantations to Anakulam. The relaxing downhill we’d both decided on was punctuated by tea stops, delicious biryani and an unexpected jungle scramble (er, I mean shortcut) neither of us had bargained for (thanks for that Komoot). Unexpectedly sweaty, we arrived […]

25 Dec 2024

Hope you packed your trunks..

It was the week before Christmas… and our clothes were still wet. On the plus side, we found some kinder weather, cooler climes and insanely beautiful hills. With aching hips, soggy bottoms and stiff necks we downed tools and set up camp in Munnar. At altitudes of 1500-2000m, Munnar has tea plantations as far as […]

23 Dec 2024

Top station

Being boaty types we always keep one eye on the weather just in case. It’s a useful habit for cyclists too… although we haven’t quite worked out which weather app we should trust here yet. The rain in Kerala falls mostly on the two idiots on bicycles. Very occasionally it’s better (and more fun) to […]

20 Dec 2024

The rain in Kerala falls…

We landed in Trivandrum, India just over two weeks ago and with a few hundred ish kilometres under our belts we are beginning to understand some of the things that make Kerala Kerala. The huge variety of curries available means we will be needing at least three months here to try them all! Dosa breakfasts […]

12 Dec 2024

Namaskaram Keralam