West Bengal, India

Saturday - having had a great sleep and drinks with other teams on Roshida beach near Vishakapatnam we managed an early start at 6am and covered almost 200 km by 11am... Unfortunately, this is when we broke down in the middle of the highway. The next ten an a half hours are quite difficult to express in words but to give some feel for the situation - initially helped by a few people claiming to be mechanics but actually just some locals trying to make a buck out of us, driving kilometres along the road trying to find some part for the Rickshaw which didn't exist to then be towed for around 60km across the border of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha by a lorry that was required to wait hours on both exit and entrance to each state... Finally finding a real mechanic who fiddled around with our battery for just over ten minutes the Rickshaw was fixed... Being in the dark in the middle of some quite small villages we decided to power through the night to stick to the initial plan of getting to Bhubaneswar (c. 170km away). With the assistance of our lorry driver friends (will write a separate note on them further down) we powered on throughout the night - with headlights barely working, oncoming traffic headlights blinding us and finally heavy rain and thunderstorm drenching us we managed to reach Bhubaneswar just after 3:30am... Sunday - to stick to the schedule we set ourselves we woke up at 8 and headed out on the road... Unfortunately, we didn't manage to get very far - still within the boundaries of the city we had another breakdown.. Luckily, after pushing the Rickshaw for a bit we were able to find a real mechanic quite quickly who went through our engine cleaning it up as apparently we were not mixing enough oil into the petrol... Nb for f ** some text is missing **