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Tag Archives: Mountains
A Caucausus Mountain Bike adventure in Khevsureti
Tom, David and I went for a bike ride into the Caucasus mountains of Georgia. I’d been planning it for a while and I wanted to get some proper riding in before the snows descended. Tom arrived on the Sunday but leaving was delayed until Tuesday. To pass the time we decided to build up [...]
Posted in Asia, Expedition Journal, Georgia, Mountain Biking Also tagged bread, Caucasus, cheese, Dogs, epic, Extrawheel, Food, Khevsureti, kona, mountain bike, mtb, off-road, Tbilisi, tour, trailer, wilderness 1 Comment
Cycling Nepal
I left Kathmandu and cycled through the smokey diesel traffic of the suburbs up out of the valley. I was not used to the mountains but glad to be back on a gradient and off the flat.
Posted in Expedition Journal, India, Nepal Also tagged Adventure, Biscuits, Botanical Gardens, Chang, Charity, Chay, Cleat Problems, Climbing, Couchsurfing, Dead Body, Delhi, Guesthouse, Himalaya, John Peel, Kathmandu, Maoists, Monkeys, Mutton, Nepali Film, Old Men, Pan Masala, Rice, Saddhu, School, Siddharta Highway, Suburbs, Temple, Terai, Theft, Trees, Tribhuvan Highway, Valleys, Volunteering, Wild Camping 2 Comments
Indian Food
Indian food is addictive. To start with it’s like ‘curry for breakfast,lunch and dinner’ – hmmmm…. But Indian food isn’t really about just eating for the need of it. It’s an experience of taste bud adventure pretty much every meal. In fact the whole Indian experience is a bit like a macrocosm of the eating [...]
Posted in Expedition Journal, India Also tagged Acceptance, Addictive, Adventure, Aloo, Aromatic, Begging, Bikaner, Breaking Preconceptions, Buffalo, Burning, Carelessness, Chappati, Childlike, Children, Chocolate Brownie, Christmas, Chutney, Concoction, Confusion, Cool, Creamy, Curry, Detoxification, Dhaal, Dirty, Disgust, Donnie Darko, Douk, Eating, Entertainment, Experience, Farting, Food, God, Gormlessness, Happiness, Helplessness, Hot, Hotels, Hunger, India, Indian Food, Jainism, Lime, Macrocosm, Mangoes, Memory, Monkeys, Nutty, Observation, Opium, Overload, Phlegm, Pickle, Pilgrims, Police, Pungent, Radish, Rangy, Raw Onions, Rice, Richie Hawtin, Rough, Rubbish, Sabzi, Salt, Shampoo, Sleeping, Smoking, Smooth, Smugness, Soup, Sour, Spicy, Spitting, Stomach, Sunset, Tasty, Tractors, Vegetables, Visions, Washing, Waste, Whisky, Wild, Wonderment 3 Comments
Curry, Dolma and Wilderness Mountain Biking in Armenia