Author: samuelgunter
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Cycling in Ukraine’s Carpathians… see EU later. (1/4)
With an unexpected six days off and the weather tricking us into thinking it was getting warmer we decided to dust off our bikes and head out for our first trip of the year. As Sheena had not visited before, we took a train to explore the big beast in the east for a heavy dose…
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Tansen – mostly photos (and a video!)
Tansen is located on the main road between Butwal on the plains and Pokhara in the hills. It is a beautiful old medieval town with a maze of streets that are narrow and always seems to be going uphill, because they are so steep the centre has few (if any) cars. For some reason it…
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Hyderabad – starting a riot in a school.
Our arrival in Hyderabad involved another epic cycle across a huge city, the traffic, the noise and the heat combine to make urban cycling considerably uncomfortable – the suffocating fumes from bad engines fueled with even worse fuel must be what its like closing your garage door and sticking an exhaust pipe into the window.…
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Wakey, wakey!
Well Hallo, hej, halla, hej hej, tere! We’ve not been writing for a while, Sheena was teaching Irish to reindeer herders and Sam was sent to work fixing shoe laces for the Finish national wife carrying team. With these tasks now behind us we have found ourselves in the beautiful city of Tallinn. Despite our…
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Some of Nepal’s hand painted signs…
Road signs in Europe are boring (except the Czech pedestrian crossing sign which we will try to dig out, the coolest street crossing sign ever), uniformly identical warnings churned out from some factory somewhere, the only variation over the whole continent is colour. Boring!
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Route a or route b??
Hi All, its been a while since we have had an opportunity to post here – we have been busy enjoying ourselves in Nepal. From the far west of the country we cycled through the flat Terai region which is situated along the mountains to the north, yesterday we followed a road and are now…
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The Taj Mahal in pictures…
Instead of writing about India’s most famous monument we thought it would be best to just post some pictures…. we had quite a few so have worked hard to reduce the amount to a reasonable level so you don’t pass out half way through! The Taj is in the city of Agra – not the…
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Holi festival in Agra
Yesterday was the Hindu festival of Holi – the festival of colours. Talking to people in Agra, it wasn’t particularly clear what the festival symbolises or the reasons for its origin, but everyone knew what the day involved – throwing colourful powders, spraying people with water and if you are a guy above the age…
Sam and Sheena Cycle 