Bitten by the Bullet

Nothing beats a good road trip read, whether you like to actually go on them, or just dream about it with the rain beating down outside. Bitten by the Bullet is an interesting & colourful account of a New Zealand couple running bike tours around India. The descriptions of the places they pass through, the characters they meet & most notably the food they eat are all crisp & fascinating. The photographs are good and suffiecient to run with the tales without taking over. If you're not a biker you will enjoy this & may seriously consider going yourself. If you are a biker (as I am) you may be a bit disappointed in the lack of commentary on how the Enfield Bullets that their intrepid tourists rode behaved. You will learn all about the various regions that they passed through, often with potted histories of the local area as well as the authors view on how we in the west could learn a few things from the basics of Indian life, (All of which I agreed with). What doesn't get much page space is what goes wrong with the motorcycles & how they fix them. If you're not really interested in this aspect of the story then it's great. My experience is that road trips always have one or two near mechanical disasters, reading about how these came about & how the victims rose to the occasion really sets apart the travelogues from the adventure stories. Maybe they just didn't have any, (other than the ditch incident), or maybe they thought this might alienate too many readers. Overall a good read but not in the same league as Ted Simon's "Jupiter's Travels", definately the best book about travelling around India on a bike that I've come across & a lot less heavy going than "Up the Trunk Road with a Bullet".

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Steve Krzystyniak, Karen Goa, Steve Krzstynia

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