We actually had to walk along from the lodge to the workshop this morning, which was something of a shock carrying all our possessions - we seem to have become rather lazy what with pulling up as near as possible to doors in the rickshaw. The heat even first thing, didn't help. Although we were told last night "rickshaw ready", there seemed to still be a little work to be done, so we popped out for breakfast. Honestly, in retrospect the town wasn't actually th...

Despite the luxury of last night, we were on the road early as we had decided to drive east instead of south, and hopefully end up pretty near the coast by bedtime. Something of a wild road, with absolutely CRAZY bus drivers (much more manic than any seen/experienced so far). On several occasions, the only safe option was to remove ourselves from the road and onto the dirt verge. On we drove with Vijayawada our intended destination. We had a brilliant...

Woke up feeling much better than yesterday - thank goodness - there just isn't the time to be ill with just the two of us in the team. Last night we actually got the map out and looked at it 'properly'. It was only then that we realised that, having covered almost 2,000km, Pondicherry is FAR nearer that we had thought, so possibly we are going to have a far more laid back week, maybe with a bit of sightseeing, hopefully not many more 5.15 alarm calls... Once on t...

Without doubt, the quietest day of the trip so far. Some more driving, no breakdowns which is a definite bonus. At one truckstop, cows started eating the floral bling on Dolly. There were a few more amusing road signs, such as "Your life begins at 40, your speed ends there", "Speed thrills, but kills", "Short cut may short your life" and "Better last in this world than first in that world". We made it to Kamareddi and after a little trouble finding somewhere to ...

Really slept very badly given how tired I was, and unfortunately, was feeling even worse than yesterday, when I had started to feel unwell. Was woken about 8.20 by the mechanic - I am not sure if I misunderstood yesterday, or if the 100 rupee tip helped, but he took Dolly's keys and returned with them about an hour later, saying he had topped up the petrol, so after the next 200km (roughly one tank of petrol) we were to go back to mixing the oil and petrol as bef...