Managed a magnificent 658 miles today, with a brilliant effort from Carrie Jackson and gang.As planned we made it to Kolkata (Calcutta) and stopped by St Paul's Cathedral. It was really weird, finding this gothic cathedral in the middle of India.... an obvious legacy of the Raj.
Gorgeous "street foods" kept us sustained on this epic leg. My favourites are beguni (fried battered aubergine slices ), kati roll (flatbread roll with vegetable stuffing), and phuchka (deep fried crêpe with tamarind and lentil sauce) - luckily I'm doing so much walking, or I would be rolling around!
Before stepping off terra firma, we stopped off at the Sunderbans National Park, a Bengal tiger reserve. Very impressive to see the work which had been done to "control man-eating tigers ", the number of causalities has been reduced from 40 to 10 per year.
So we set off on our first major sea trip. We are now bobbing somewhere in the Indian Ocean -by using the compass and the stars I have calculated that we are 187 miles from Bassein, Burma.
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