Cycling Stats Kochi to Cherai Beach 26 Cherai Beach to Guruvayur 61.68 Guruvayur to Tirur 59 Tirur to Calicut 57 Calicut to Thottaya beach 89 Thottada beach to payyanur 51 Big white tax to Gokarnum Beach 353 We’ve been at Om Beach for eight days now, chilling out at the Nirvana Café. Yep, really, I’m …
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Quatro Formaggi Pizza, Cappuccino and other Guilty Pleasure
Cycling Stats Varkala to Kollam 40 km Kollam to Alleppey (100 km by boat) Alleppey to Cochin 60 km I always laugh a little bit when we meet travellers who feel that the only way to really experience a developing country is to go local. In Kovalam I remember seeing a white guy wearing a …
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If you smile at me…
If you smile at me I will understand…cause that’s something everybody everywhere does in the same language…. (Crosby, Stills and Nash – Wooden Ships) This post is dedicated to the World Kindness Movement Cycling Stats since Kumbakonan Kumbakonan to Managurdi 40 km Managurdi to Pattukkotai 34 km Pattukkotai to Mimisal 68 km Mimisal to Thondi …
Magical Thinking
Lakshmi Villas to Kumbakonam 61 km We had a great ride into Kumbakonam (home to no less than 188 temples). We were happy to be on quiet roads (relatively speaking) and the rural landscape of rice fields and coconut palms was nicely broken up by some large villages where we bought oranges and other snacks …
Practising the India Travel Yoga
Cycling Stats: Pondicherry to Chidambaram 68 km (East Coast Road) Chidambaram to Lakshmi Villas (T. Nedenberry)16 km Now that we have hit the real India, I am realizing I’ve got a lot to learn about travelling here. In the traffic-laden areas, cycling takes pure concentration and becomes a kind of dance — a kind of …
Bom Shiva
We’ve finally left our lovely little town of Lauzun to continue our bike trip and flew Paris to Chennai this week to begin a cycle trip we hope takes us to Goa. Despite all the annoyances and stress of airline travel, I still love the fact that in a mere number of hours I can …
Loving Lauzun…we don’t want to leave…
We’re staying an extra week in Lauzun and then booting it up to the border in a car so that we don’t overstay our Schengen visa and potentially mess up coming back (remote chance but we are so in love with France we don’t want to risk it). Yep. We are both in love with …
Four Visits later and France is still Fabulous.
Pisa to Bastia Corsica (ferry) Toulon to Sanary sur Mer 18 km Sanary sur Mer to Cassis 32 km Cassis to Marseille 23 km Marseille to Montpellier (train) Montpellier to Sete 39 km Sete to Villeneuve les Beziers 56 km Villeneuve les Beziers to Capestang 30 km Capestang to Le Somail 19 km Le Somail …
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If it’s Tuesday it must be Greece…
It sure went by in a blur. Here we are already in Italy, getting ready to leave for France tomorrow. Cycling Distances: Piraeus to campground 30 km east of Korinth 55 km Camp to Korinth 30 km Korinth to Akarta Beach 65 km Akarta Beach to Rio 63 km Rio to Patras 12 km Even …
The Last Hurrah in Tawdry Hua Hin
Apparently Ian and I are managing to get older without getting any smarter. The night before we had to take our 6 am train from Hua Hin to Bangkok we decided to go out and photograph a girly bar or two and ended up hanging out in one of them instead. (It was too dark …
Big Trip Blog Backup 