The Preamble
Wednesday 27 December 2023 Bristol, dark, dull and wet You may or may not already know but Boy Wonder and I usually travel on bicycles, and we've been doing that since 1987. However, since we have reached our 'Autumn' years the two year cycle tours have come to an end. For now ........ only to be replaced by a 3 month European tour each year with the odd winter sojourn to warm climbs. We're leaving the bikes behind for this trip, heading back to places we visited many years ago, Sri Lanka and India. The last time we were in Sri Lanka Sadam Hussein invaded Iraq (1990) and a civil war was raging. On 26th November 2008 we arrived in Mumbai about 2 hours before the whole city was shot up by terrorists. The reason we were in the hotel we chose (Colaba district) in the first place was to be close to the ferry that would take us to Alibag, on the Mainland, without having to cycle through the traffic of Mumbai (even we aren't THAT crazy). The gunmen cam...