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Temples We check in to the hotel and the steamer to Ceylon sails away. This part of India has some fantastic temples and Mahabalipuram is a name that lingers. For three days, we visit several catching a couple of festivals. One has a huge procession going slowly though the main street

West Pakistan Our entry into West Pakistan is via the spectacular Khyber Pass and our first stop is Peshawar. The drive itself is uneventful, with Anussorn asleep in the back having caught some sort of lurgi, a clear sky, other vehicles for company and no drama, so what many would con

The Land of Theatre So Kim Jong-Un apparently wants to move North Korea to the real world and a summit is planned for June in Singapore. A real achievement for Trump diplomacy and proof of one of Einstein’s (misattributed) sayings “Insanity is doing the same thing over and

Garmsar Back to Gol-e-Sara campsite and it’s off east again to Meshed in the north-east of Iran, and like Turkey, Iran drives on the right. The road near Teheran is good but further away from the capital, parts of it are just dirt road where the wheels of thousands of heavy vehi

Afghanistan Having done Iran, we carry on east towards the Afghan border. First it’s passport control where our visas from the Afghan Embassy on the corner of Exhibition Road are checked – mine is only for one week. Further on is the customs post with all this strung out o

Carry on Camping Leaving Thessalonika behind us, we drive east finally reaching the Turkish border which is in Europe, 60 miles west of the Bosphorus, the traditional divide between Europe and Asia. First it’s passport control and then customs. Before the internet and desktop co

Today is Shakespeare’s birthday as well as St George’s Day so here’s a little quiz about England’s patron saint courtesy of the BBC  The guy was actually from Turkey being adopted by England (and other nations) about the time of The Crusades   This is also when

Wheelnuts soaking in Oil Last task before actually boarding a ferry is to visit the engineering company which has offered us a set of lockable wheelnuts featured on BBC Tomorrows World a few months before. Turning up at the works, the boss asks us to pop back after a couple of hours w

Chapter Two We need a vehicle  for the trip, and it’s not going to be the Bedford Dormobile or the more common VW Camper. While the trip to India has been done on bicycles, motorcycles – with and without sidecars and even a little Austin 7, we are going to do it in style i