Category: Nuts on Bents

Our first night’s stop in India was at Amritsar – the holy city of the Sikhs and home to the famous Golden Temple. We decided to make a change from our usual daily routine, and get up early!! :p So we rose at dawn and still bleary eyed made our […]

Fully recharged after our nice long break in Lahore, we set out with our last day’s police escort, to the border town of Wagah (wagah wagah wagahhhh as Nic sang out all day). On the way we said our last goodbyes to the colorful Pakistani lorries, buses and rickshaws all […]

…as the locals say, which simply means that there is no other city equal to Lahore. As our Pakistani government guide book says “No doubt Lahore is at least equal to Delhi and Agra if not better”. 🙂 After one month’s hard cycling in the heat and dust of Pakistan, […]

We would like to thank the Sindh and Punjab police, who have looked after us throughout our entire trip through Pakistan. Thank you to the hundreds of policemen we have met for not only safeguarding our security (in person as well as on the road, by blocking other traffic), but […]

The final stretch of road in Pakistan from Multan to Lahore was relatively uneventful cycling wise, although definitely a highlight for us culturally. Always in our minds was that these would be our last few days in Pakistan and we tried to make the most of it (which basically means […]

Crikey we have been on the road 4 months already!! How time has flown – although it feels to both of us as if we have been on the road for a lifetime! We have covered 5000kms on the bikes – and we are on schedule to complete the trip […]

After a hard day’s ride covering 62 miles, we arrived in a small town in Punjab, Ahmadpur East. Our original intention was to stay in the historic town of Uch Sharif, 20km further back, however we were miffed to find out that there were no rooms available in town! So […]

In case anyone was wondering, rest assured that our farmers’ tans that we got through Italy and Greece haven’t been lost and we have been taking great pains to ensure that our new neapolitan style tans flourish during the rest of our trip!! That’s neapolitan because our torso and feet […]

Over a week in Pakistan, and we seem to be suffering from bad tummies permanently!! Alas we love Pakistani food but our tummies are taking some time to adjust! On the plus side the people are super-friendly and the land is as flat as a pancake! Mountains here are little […]