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Polly Benge a one-time English ballet dancer meets a chef from New Zealand who is soon to embark, with another male companion, on an ambitious bicycle journey through Nepal and parts of India.

Not looking forward to the inevitable separation, out of the blue she is asked to `comne with me.' Not your typical outdoor girl, Polly exchanges pointee shoes and other ballet attire for shorts and pannier bags. She thus begins a journey uncertainly with a noticeably buckled rear wheel.

From the saddle, negotiating rough roads through regions potentially as dangerous as they are isolatesd, she asks herself why she should fear for her life for the sake of adventure,or being the first person to achieve something. For all that she is no whimp and her stamina is rarely wanting.

Border crossings are frequently traumatic. On one occasion the trio is held hostage by bullying militants. Their daily surroundings are often magnificent as they also come to terms with a country where affluence and poverty exist uncanningly side by side. Underling the often traumatic events is Polly's fledgling relationship. Will she follow him back to New Zealand, or is the adventure too much for any friendship to endure?

Her descriptive writing style is excellent. And her story, spiced with humour and suspense, renders my own mega cycling journeys through several countries somewhat tame. Does she make it to New Zealand? Does she still travel by bicycle?

Maybe I will meet her for a chat on the road somewhere?


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Tea for Two Polly Benge 9780953057597 Books Reviews

What a pity that a book about a part of India that has received little attention turns out to be so poorly written. A trip that could have been very interesting to read about is instead a tedious catalogue of "then we went there and then we did this." The author comes across as a naive young woman who did not even know to take toilet paper to a remote part of India and patently she (and her travelling companions) had done little (if any) reading about the history and politics of Assam. This is, unfortunately, an unchallenging and uninformative book.
I have to admit that I am partial to books about travel experiences. Moreover my husband is from India and I have been there twice so I can relate to some of the stuff. But one does not need to have this kind of background to enjoy this book. She is quite a courageous lady, cycling through pretty difficult terrain and she was a dancer and had not really prepared for long cycling stretches. Actually it is often having to deal with custom officers and crossing borders that either things go just fine but sometimes create the biggest problems.
Bike Accessories - Bike Care - Pedro's Syn Lube

Polly Benge a one-time English ballet dancer meets a chef from New Zealand who is soon to embark, with another male companion, on an ambitious bicycle journey through Nepal and parts of India.

Not looking forward to the inevitable separation, out of the blue she is asked to `comne with me.' Not your typical outdoor girl, Polly exchanges pointee shoes and other ballet attire for shorts and pannier bags. She thus begins a journey uncertainly with a noticeably buckled rear wheel.

From the saddle, negotiating rough roads through regions potentially as dangerous as they are isolatesd, she asks herself why she should fear for her life for the sake of adventure,or being the first person to achieve something. For all that she is no whimp and her stamina is rarely wanting.

Border crossings are frequently traumatic. On one occasion the trio is held hostage by bullying militants. Their daily surroundings are often magnificent as they also come to terms with a country where affluence and poverty exist uncanningly side by side. Underling the often traumatic events is Polly's fledgling relationship. Will she follow him back to New Zealand, or is the adventure too much for any friendship to endure?

Her descriptive writing style is excellent. And her story, spiced with humour and suspense, renders my own mega cycling journeys through several countries somewhat tame. Does she make it to New Zealand? Does she still travel by bicycle?

Maybe I will meet her for a chat on the road somewhere?