How the hell did that happen! Suddenly we are two days away from going to India. I know I have been saying we have been doing stuff in preparation but we have not really been thinking about it. We woke up this morning and it hit us like a stone. None of us have been over there, or done anything like this so we are all very excited, but with that excitement there is a certain amount of nervousness. ‘Will my bike last?’, ‘Will I get AMS?’, ‘ Will we be eaten alive by wild cannibals?’ (last one only flashed through my mind once).

This morning Scott and I went to the pharmacy to get all the medical supplies for our first aid kit; we bought most of the the French supply of imodium. I had slight difficulties with the bloke behind the desk, he was one of those French people who can not understand you unless you pronounce it just like a local. So we asked for imodium in my best french accent – he looked back at me blankly.

Ee-mo-dee-um s’il vous plait – another blank face.

So with embarrassment I resorted to hand gestures that made the women next to me blush, the bloke behind the desk went – aaaaaah ee-mo-dee-um. Bloody frogs.

Apart from that today has been spent drawing on maps:

Lara spent most of the day writing her book. Yes she is writing a book! But shhh I never said that. Tonight we are doing some more preparation for India, Scott is cooking for us. So if we don’t get the shits tomorrow we shall be ok for the whole trip!