Tuesday 27th November (Gudur – Tirupati) I was almost out of town when my rear tyre crunched down into a pothole and was immediately flat. I pulled off to the side of the road, onto some unused land (amazing!) behind where a shoe repairer had set up for business, squatting below an umbrella with his …
The bus billed itself as a ‘Royal Sleeper’ but it was neither. Certainly not regal except perhaps in someone’s crazily exaggerated perspective, nor conducive to rest. It arrived at 6:00 pm but it was still an hour late in leaving, finally getting going around 8:30 pm. And after I had been subjected to the obligatory …
Wow – back in India and shaping up to be quite a day. First of all, AirAsia didn’t like the way my bike was prepared for flight – pedals off, handlebar rotated 90 degrees to line up with the front wheel. I was sent off to one of several plastic wrapping machines and waited for …