Cycle India 2012

Wednesday 2 January
A group of twenty-eight intrepid adventurers, including some non-cycling loved ones, left Gatwick on Wednesday morning, bound for Hyderabad via Dubai.
We arrived in Hyderabad at breakfast time the next morning, for the start of two days of travelling within India to get to the starting point of the bike ride.
Thursday 3 January
After a […]

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Wednesday 2 January
A group of twenty-eight intrepid adventurers, including some non-cycling loved ones, left Gatwick on Wednesday morning, bound for […]

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Friday 4 January
The choices the next morning were to be ready to leave at 6:30 or, if you wanted to do a trip to the nearby temple, be ready at 5:30. At this time, we thought 6:30 was an early start (little did we know) and decided to miss the temple in favour of beauty […]

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Saturday 5 January
Cycle time! The order was to meet in reception for a 5.45am departure because we had a long day and wanted to avoid cycling in the middle of the day if possible. Time keeping was improving – we left at 6.45.
We took our bus to the outskirts of Rajahmundry (stopping to fit in […]

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Sunday 6 January
Up at 5am to grab your hot water, followed by breakfast outside in the dark at 6 and ready to say goodbye to the Bishop at 7, and off on our bikes at 7.30 for our second day of cycling to an immediate realisation that I had grown extra bones in my backside […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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