Desirable Requirements for a Bicycle Tour.
Hi Guys, Just a quick note to update you on life in India so far.
Just the desirable equipment to take on a bike (Above) - For Movies, Internet, Filming, Phoning, Shaving, Listening, Storing and recording Audio!
Thanks India for losing to the UK with your rupee so now we get 81 to the pound which is completely the reverse of what is happening everywhere else in the world where the pound is rubbish.
It's getting cooler now, 33 degrees at noon to a freezing 20 degrees at 4am
Last six days now as we head off down south.
Looks like we have the place rented for a few months to a Jersey couple so here's hoping.
We had to give up on Encephalitis vaccines even though there is an epidemic of sorts up in Utter Pradesh. No one has a clue how to get the product. The line from hospitals, clinics and pharmacies is that by the time the Indian government decide on a product the expiry date has already passed so the stock is destroyed.
A popular drink we have come to love: Half a squeezed lime in a glass followed by 3 teaspoons of sugar then half teaspoon of salt topped up with soda water and ice and stirred briskly - The best thirst quencher to date.
We have found the Fruit and Veg in the USA all tasted like plastic but the food in the UK was much better and NZ & OZ of course was better again but the Fruit & Veg here in India, even though it does not look the best, is absolutely geogeous and may I say the bananas look pathetic but they ooze with flavour and as for the tomatoes, well give me these any day. My God the Coriander is so pungent it makes the UK supplied product not even in the running for aroma let alone taste.
I have just bought a 14KG Gas tank refill for GBP5.50 yet it is GBP34 in the UK and yet it is the same gas and the same container and yes both are delivered. Who is ripping off who?
Description of the Photos below (Left top to right top to bottom)
1. Shopping GBP20 (note the two bottles of Gin included, 2 packs of sausages, 2L Tomato Juice, 2L Milk, 4Kgs Veges, 5L Water, 12 Eggs, 4L Soda Water, 3L Mango Juice, 2 punnets of cheese spread etc).
2. Young Mongoose in our backyard. We have seen big ones too.
3.Best of the Condalim Beach Shacks. Most are crummy.
4.Last Beer on the beach this year.
Whow there are Indians who think India is a mess so look at the TheUglyIndian