Matthew @ March 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Monday 7 January
Because we had stayed far from the rest of the party in Manginapudi Beach, we had to be up and ready to leave the hotel at 6am to take the coach back there for breakfast. As we couldn’t find the coach driver for some time (asleep on the back seat), we didn’t get […]
Matthew @ March 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Tuesday 8 January
The fourth and last day of cycling and we wanted to arrive at the HEAL Children’s Village as early in the afternoon as possible, so another early start – ready for breakfast at 6 for a 6.30 departure. Good effort, but make that breakfast at 6.30 for a 7.30 departure. Terry was a […]
Matthew @ March 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Wednesday 9 January
Our first leisurely start to a day! Breakfast at 8.30 and ready to get on our coach at 9 to go shopping. Close – the coach arrived at 10.15! There had been a whip round amongst us to buy some presents to give to the children at the Village. Canvassing amongst the children […]
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Thursday 10 January
Up at 4.30am for a 5am departure in a small fleet of cars taking us to a nearby small airport for a flight back to Hyderabad.
Always time for another diversion, especially when it involves breakfast! We stopped at the Nagarjuna Hospital, where the doctors who had shown us such fantastic hospitality during the […]
Matthew @ March 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Friday 11 January
The journey home. A lie-in till 6.30! Yours truly not feeling at all well. Suffice to say, an 18-hour journey home with a fever and your head in a sick bag is not much fun!
So, that was it. What will I remember from the trip? Well, it was remarkable on many levels. On […]