Day 124 – 8th August 2014 Lahore
I paid the duty, collected the parts for my bike and spent the afternoon fitting them. It was so hot the sweat was dripping off me like a waterfall! The bike is as good as it’s needs to be so happy days. Cable ties have been holding my chain adjustment mechanism together since Iran and […]
Day 123 – 7th August 2014 Lahore
I need to leave Pakistan. It’s been by far the most interesting experience of my travels but the bureaucracy and bullshit police attitude is getting to me and tainting my otherwise positive experience. Today a local friend accompanied me to the post office to collect a bolt and 3 small fixings for a repair on […]
Day 122 – 6th August 2014 Lahore
I have a stomach problem again, now I’m getting pissed off with it as it’s been getting on for a month that I have the problem on & off! I have had various comments about my weight loss which I am fully aware of, I know I should be eating more but I see food […]
Day 121 – 5th August 2014 leave 11.30am Miles rode 186 Islamabad – Lahore
Time to leave Islamabad as I have my India visa and the bike is sorted, I meet Omer and his friend who ride with me out of the city and then I head south. Half way to Lahore I meet Mansoor who has been helping me with so much whilst I’ve been in Pakistan. Mansoor […]
Day 120 – 4th August 2014 Islamabad
Islamabad was getting on with Monday morning, the family below (see pic) doing what people all over the world do, going to work and taking the kids to school. I arrived at the visa centre and they were so busy and saying it would take days to get my visa I told them I would […]
Day 118 / 119 – Islamabad
It’s bloody hot so a dull weekend of nothing.
Day 117 – 1st August 2014 Islamabad
The lorry dropped me off at about 5.30am at Iqbal’s ‘Honda Centre’ and I waited for it to open but I was so tired and could hardly stay awake. A while after the monsoon rain came poring down and as I had been in the lorry all night and before that trying to repair my […]
