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Monday, October 24, 2011

We won the RWC hehe and I'm still in Varkala Beach

18/10/11 to 24/10/11
  Afraid this is another short post, mainly because I have stayed in the same place for the last week so I could see the Rugby World Cup Final. And I'm glade I did because we won hehe.
   So yes lots of watching TV/movies and swimming and eating western food. From here I will head in land to the hills and up them more than the coast. The coast in the south anyway is like the east coast of Australia but without any motorways, which means it's basically a big suburb with town centers every now and then. This of course means boring and dangerous driving.
  So anyway I'll head out tomorrow. 
   Enjoy your Life

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Just so you know, Frieds in Aussie and NZ

Hong Kong
27
New Zealand
21
United States
14
India
13
Sri Lanka
9
Malaysia
6
Australia
4
United Kingdom
4
South Africa
3
France
 
I think some more of my friends sould actually look at my blog....
 

In Varkala Beach

8/10/11
   Rode down to Pamban an island on the chain that leads to Sri Lanka. Had a lot of trouble finding a hotel, and found out non Hindu's are not allowed in the temple complex. So I rode out for somewhere closer to the most southerly point in India. Took till after dark riding tho some interesting back rodes and getting lost again a few time till I made it to Kovilpatti.
 Yes in this country, like all other developing countries, there is a rubbish problem. Now we all, well the ones who have travelled, know that this is a problem in a lot of developing countries. We all say it is their fault, but we gave them plastic, all these countries have spend 1000,s of years using biodegradable product to package and transport things till we gave them plastic, which they treat in the same way as all the biodegradable products they are use to throwing over the fence, so who is really to blame, the ones who litter or the ones who litter the stuff that is different to what they have always littered.
I finally took a photo of the damage to my bag. This is curable, i do have a bigger problem which i do not know how i will deal with, a broken part in my visor foundation which I noticed on the ride to kanyakumari.
 This could be a major problem as replacement helmets here are shit, and i don't want to go back to Aussie to replace it, also no one can bring me a new one or send me one as i need to try it on first to make sure it fits right.

I get the feeling that the Christians here are more worried by Islam than first thought. Although saying that these are penticostal signs, there are lots of their churchs here.

 The Major India construction that first made me come here, not as major as i thought.

9/10/11 to 10/10/11
Rode down to the most southerly point, where you can watch both the sunrise and the sunset from the same beach/rocks. Spent 2 nights here to see both, but the clouds moved in for the sunrise so never saw a proper one. But then it is the first time I've seen the sunset where the sun reached the horizon to disappear instead of a while before for a long time, Cambodia was 3/4hr before sunset ans even Malaysia the sun didn't make it all the way before the smoke from all the burning got in the way.
you cannot see the Windmills but i can, this could be anywhere in many country's in the world
As you can see by the plastic bags it is India. Of course this may be worse than it looks as the next town is the most southerly and it has a no plastic policy, so maybe the locals throw them out here.
Hard to see in this photo but the rocks sticking out are coved in pilgrims who have come here for the sunset and sunrise.
  I possible made a mistake in saying to these women they could take a photo with me, it turned about 10 to 20 minutes for the groups of people taking photos of themselfs with me. lol i did similar in a movie in Chennai and thought yeah right i've never seen this sort of stuff as a tourist. I was wrong at the set, it does happen, you can be paprazzied here.
Last photo of the sunset.
 TheGothic catherdril in town after sunrise.


11/10/11
Rode north to Varkala beach in Kerala, it's a touristy place and for the first time in ages I'm looking forward to some western food.
This is how ihad to rebuild the Indircators so they are out of the way of the bags. Yes they broke or where broken by me so that i could re attach them out of the way.

12/10/11 to 17/10/11
Well I have decided to stay here till Aussie losses to NZ in the semi final of the world cup, well I hope.
  And guess what I was right roflol lots we beat the Aussie's, we beat the Aussie's hehhehe. Only the french left.
Yes I've had a couple of beers well reading the commentary of the game lol. i connot seem to get a live stream to work, any help someone.
 Oh and Nick this is what a peice of breaded hose is good for, if you have vibration problems with the front end of a bike lol.
Yes i am Enjoying my life, stuff the Ausiies (we Have) now it's time for the French hehehehe.
   Go the All Blacks
     Oh and Enjoy your Life
        I am.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

In Madurai

27/9/11
  Left for Puducherri, not a big ride only 62km according to some people at the hotel, or 162km according to the road signs, or 146 according to the speedo when I arrived lol. Puducherri is a bit French but then you get that.
Lake on the side of the road on the way to Puducherri


28/9/11 to 1/10/11
  Got hold of Karl and dropped the bike off for a few things to be done, mainly in the front end.
The bike took a little bit and I wanted to fix a couple of other little things which make it easier to pack. Walked around town quite a bit, and had a lot of French bakery stuff lol.
Went for a test ride on the Saturday to make sure the bike was running well, all good.
Gandhi
Temple at sunset

2/10/11
  Went out to a little village call Arriya (I think that is it) which is some multi national experiential place full of alternative life style people. Only got to chat to one guy who I gave a ride to a local tea shop seems like an interesting place.
There is a lot of Church here


3/10/11
  Road down to Nagappattinam which is a port down about 200km south of Puducherri. The ride was interesting and had my first accident, well sort of, a car pulled across into my left side bag and ripped the pocket open, bugger, well I said worse to him but you get the meaning. Oh well will have to wait till I'm in a nicer town then will look at getting it stitched up.
The damage


4/10/11
  Headed down to Madurai. Tried to go via the ECR (East Coast Road) But before I got to the coast I took a wrong turn and ended up a bit lost for a while. It did mean I got to ride through a few small villages and nice rural areas. Getting lost did mean that I didn't make it into Madurai till 20.00 which was a pain riding here at night isn't too nice.
Some kids who stop to talk when i was lost.


5/10/11
  Had one of those shopping experiences today, I'd just bought what I wanted and walking back to the hotel when I saw a group of tourists walking out of a shop with bags of shopping. I looked at my shopping, a 1 meter piece of 5mm breaded garden hose and thought, I'm just not the same am I lol, but I think the hose will work a treat for stopping the fairing vibration.
  The hotel has a lovely view of the temple complex from the roof and well sitting on the roof listening to the music (you can really here the Led Zeppelin influence in it lol) and watching a storm coming in from the south, I noticed that there was a big Buddha statue to the south and some nice looking hills just behind it. After a small amount of indecision I decided to stay another day and go for a ride out to the Hills in the north and around through them to the south.


6/10/11
Got up early and headed out north towards the hills, found a nice empty dam with a good view, although tar seal roads all seem to be on the flat and not up into the hills. Ended up riding out to Teni and back through another valley to Madurai.
The dam is dry at the moment, but the North east monsoon is due this month some time.
One of the valleys i rode


7/10/11
Have decided to stay one more day and try and get my blog updated.
 All is well here will be heading south for a while, then up the other coast ish for a while.
   Enjoy your life