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26/12/2024

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…

25/12/2024

Christmas tails at the elephant spa

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…

23/12/2024

It was the week before Christmas… and our clothes were still wet.

On the plus side, we have found some kinder weather, cooler climes and insanely beautiful hills.

It was the week before Christmas… and our clothes were still wet. On the plus side, we’d found some kinder weather, cooler climes and insanely beautiful hills. With aching hips…

20/12/2024

Big ups to the fellow cyclists who helped us out of a very soggy spot

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.

15/12/2024

The rain in Kerala falls mostly on the two idiots on bicycles.

12/12/2024

The huge variety of curries available means we will be needing at least three months in India to try them all!

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.

02/11/2024

Just three short weeks before our next adventure!
We’ll be landing at Thiruvananthapuram airport on Monday 25th November and at some points along the way we’ll have a little blog right here…

23/02/2024

We’re currently in a hotel room watching the rain bucket down outside. Time to catch up with the blogs…
Christmas and New Year in Palawan

After Christmas we took the Montenegro fast boat to El Nido, Palawan. Our bikes lashed to the front of the boat with drivechains soaking up all the salt water delivered by the rough seas. El Nido is a…

03/02/2024

We’ve come to the surface just long enough to put up some photos of the marine life in the Philippines..

When we’re not marvelling at the wonders of nature from our bikes we’ve been enjoying cooling down in 28 degree bath water seas. The Philippines is home to more than 52,000 species, more than half of…

23/01/2024

Progress in the Philippines 🇵🇭 so far..
(Luzon) Manila, Batangas, (Mindoro) Puerto Galera, Abra de ilog, San Jose, (Busuanga) Coron, (Palawan) El Nido, Diapila, San Vincente, Port Barton, Mecaja, Puerto Princesa .. not sure where next..

30/12/2023

It’s taken a while to get this first blog post out from the 🇵🇭 Philippines..

It’s been quite some time since our last adventure, so we didn’t hang about in Manila – jet lag ignored, bikes rebuilt in a day and we set off South (well, across the city to hop on a bus for the…