Ah...real ale :) I have had several pints now and I am feeling good!!!! That is several pints over 5 days, of course...I'm not a lush, you know :) My first pint was a pint of Timothy Taylor Landlord...and it was delicious!!!!

And cheese! I have had Stilton and mature Cheddar and some Wensleydale with cranberries. Jacket potatoes, too! Ah, it is so wonderful. And we have had showers in CLEAN water - it was amazing to have that first shower.

We have just now gotten online to check email and let you know we are alive.

The flight back was easy as pie...just a bit of trouble with luggage - ours was overweight (they limit you to 23kg each and we were at about 32kg each). They wanted an extortionate 1100 rupees per kilo and they wanted to charge us for an extra 10 kilos - that is £135.00 for the 10 kilos!!!! (just under 250 US Dollars for you Americanos :). So we removed 10 kilos from our luggage (heavy bike locks and some bike tools for the most part) which would cost about £35 to replace and that was the end of it...well, not that we could actually get rid of it in the airport without causing a security alert - A had to beg the security guard to get rid of it for us as they wouldn't let us put it in the bin or take it outside (where we might have donated it to a rickshaw driver or someone else).

The drive back from the airport was fabulous - no horns, no wacky drivers, we were ripping it along faster than we ever rode the motos these past 8 months :) It was a beautiful day and we felt very welcomed home. That was for the afternoon...it's still the regular English summer - cool and wet - and we have our warm clothes and rain kit out :)

On Friday we got the bicycles out of storage and have been pedaling around town - A pretends that she doesn't know where she is and takes me on all sorts of routes, definitely not the shortest way to anywhere we might be going, but you can't get that woman off her bike - she is such a happy bunny :) We will get the motorbike out of storage this week and see if we can get that running and on the road.

That's all for now....more news as it happens!!!