Tuesday 6th January 2015
This morning we had to get our rickshaws out of the u underground
car park before we could load up. We set off onto the highway in the dark and
had an almost full moon on our left and as it rose a bright red sun on our
right. The morning was super cold and ridiculously misty and didn’t clear till
about mid-morning.
The whole drive today was on the highway which was pretty
boring scenery wise and as it was so cold I began to shut down and go into
hibernation only really waking up when Maezee overtook a truck and the sudden
movement swung my head into a bolt sticking out of the inside of the rickshaw.
We made a few stops throughout the morning to let the
engines cool. The boys all had a 200 rupee bet to see whose rickshaw would run
out of petrol and the last team with petrol won. We didn’t take part as our
rickshaw chews through fuel faster than lightening we filled up after about
115km and were almost empty the winning team did about 200km
We decided to have an early lunch outside of Pune at about
11.30am but managed to stop at one of the only dhabas with no English menus so
just ordered what we could figure out they had being a local place it was
pretty spicy so I enjoyed it.
The plan was to stay in Pune to get some Wi-Fi and what not
but it proved harder than imagined we managed to find the area we were looking
for after struggling through city traffic but it took about three hours to
actually get into a place. We found a hotel but could only book online and
could only pay with an Indian credit card so the hotel manager had to get his
friend to pay and we all handed over cash.
While a few of us were upstairs sorting out the room the
rest of the group got interviewed by some newspaper with a local politician
which was a bit of a laugh
By the time it was all sorted we may as well have driven to
the next town and found something cheaper. Team tukking disaster found an an
expensive place and we all crowded their bar to jump on the Wi-Fi
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