Cycling Stats Panjiim to Povorim 7 km Panjiim to Vasco De Gama 25 km Day trips around Goa beaches 25 km Train Station to Hotel in Bangalore 5 km As planned, we haven’t done much cycling since we put our bikes on the roof rack of the big white taxi. And that’s ok – we …
Category Archives: Asia/SE Asia
Big White Taxi
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 …
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 …
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 …
Recovering by the Beach — Enjoying Hua Hin
We finally left Chiang Mai last week, opting for a day train to Ayutthaya with a plan to start cycling south from there. Well, best laid plans and all that…after much running around on our final day in Chiang Mai (mailing parcels home and getting a final dental check up on my new crown and …
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Home is where the Panniers are — Winding it Down in Chiang Mai
After months on the road with no more than a week in one place, Chiang Mai felt like home pretty much as soon as we’d unpacked our panniers. That feeling of arriving home was even stronger after leaving our stuff in our room here in the R.C.N. Court and Inn and travelling for a few …
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Big Trip Blog Backup 