Back in Goa for a holiday

Where I took off from for my Tandem paraglide with Steve.

19/10/13

   Headed out early hoping to get down to the NH1 and along there as far as possible.... took over 1.5hrs longer than I expected to get to the NH1 at Phagwara. Partly because while coming down a ruff piece of road my chain came off, possibly on a high edge in the road. So I fixed it up and carried on. Once on the NH1 I thought it would all get good as the road from Amritsar to Jalanhar which is marked on the map as a normal road is a lovely dual carriageway. But from Phagwara for about 100km is under construction even though on the map it is marked as a completed motorway... this is India. I only made it down to Ambala so hopefully get a bit more distance tomorrow.

Just on the side of the road a while before the motorway

20/10/13

Headed out early and the road is finished, mostly, a lot of McDonald's along this road and they seem to be targeting rick India's. Now there are enough of them but all the McDonald's are in the middle of no where so they are building a shopping mall at each one to bring in customers lol. Of course at $5 for a burger and fries you could feed a family for a few days on that much. Turned off a bit early and ended up going down back roads till Sonipat for a while. Bent my Carrier a bit on some rail track that was beside a track in the long grass. Did not come off but it is a bit bent now. Finally made it back to the motorway at about Bawal then made it down to about 80km north of Jaipur

he is small but you see the Rickshaw parked over the line of the middle and outside lanes......well it is on a jack and the driver has taken the wheel to be fixed lol. If that was NZ, Oz, UK it would be a pile of bits scattered along the motorway, or in the impound. But This Is India lol

 

21/10/13

   Headed out early for Jodhpur... when I got down to Beawar I discovered that it was the same distance to Udaipur. I had found a lot less information about Jodhpur so I asked a local man running a chi stall if Jodhpur was worth visiting and he said Udaipur was better. So I just kept heading south instead of west.

  Had a lovely meeting with some local farmers at one stop. They where doing the hay stacks and saw me parked up. They eventually came over and ended up showing me what the crop was (not sure lol) and how heavey the bundles where (not as heavey as a conventional hay bale). Also showed me the tractor and disks. Hen at the next stop meet a family getting some water with a kid (baby Goat) they where a bit scared of me until the father turned up.
  I made it down to Udaipur easy enough but it did take a while to find a place to stay.

Family with Kid

Where is Devgarh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devgarh,_Rajasthan With a population of 16,500 I'm surprise to see this. Very clever. Made me stop and meet the family above. While recharging my phone using my laptop on the side of the road.... lol lucky they never come near and I had put it under a bush a bit. I would have been embarrassed trying to explain why I had a laptop out on the side of the road if they saw it.

Udaipur photo that got loaded in the wrong place... and the remove/size bar has disappeared.

 

 

22/10/13 to 23/10/13

   Went for a walk around the town and the lake (a bit), also a boat trip around the lake, and the Palace. I have to say the Palace is one of the best organised and rebuild monuments in India, well worth a visit), although the entry is INR100 and INR225 for camera so I did not take my camera in. It is a bit strange pricing but worth taking the camera in I think.

Bloody graffiti this is the only time I have seen it since Europe, and to do it in such a beautiful town.... grrr

 Temple near the Palace

Temple near the Palace

View from the old wall

Another one in the wrong place. This was not far from Goa in south Maharashtra

24/10/13

   Headed out early for another day on the motorway... made it somewhere near Surat.

25/10/13

  Leaving early meant not too bad down to Thane (near Mumbai) once there I found the motorway to Pune was actually and Express way so no Motorbikes aloud, grrr. So I decided to take the NH17 straight down. Till the turn off to Alibag (don't miss it it is under construction and you end up doing a 50km return trip if you do) the road is shit. After getting back to the right road I made it a bit further down when it started spitting so I checked into a hotel, not before you say pussy. I had to cover bags and self if I keep riding and would have only gone for about another hour as it was getting dark. Also when it rain it pissed down so I would have stopped in a shop and waited any way.

26/10/13

   Another early rise....but this time a lovely ride down through the hills along the coast, although I did not see the sea very often if at all. It started raining at one point but I just put everything under covers and rode on, without putting my wet weathers on, jeans needed a wash anyway and they where dry within the hour.

  Very happy to arrive in Arambol. Stopped and had a chat to Dean then came around to the hotel Judy stays at and got a room, then off to Relax Inn for a lovely stake for dinner (have not had one of those since, since last time I was at Relax lol.

26/10/13 to (12/12/13)

   Yes getting ahead of myself a bit here but if you look at this time the last couple of years you will see what I am about to do... but if you are too lazy to look. I will be eating, sleeping, relaxing, watching TV/movies, playing games, socialising, listening to music, playing with my self, maybe even playing with others if they ask nicely lol. Birthday tomorrow which is why I'm doing this, party time, hehe.

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