On Tuesday (the 11th) we already sighed of relief; even though the car didn’t make it even to the second ship, it would make it into the third one for sure. Then we got a call from VW saying that one of the car parts that they listed hadn’t arrived yet. We had already dreamt of a stress-free and peaceful …
Days 1-5 from Nepal // Sight seeing of North India
Before Lump had to go to the hospital here in India, we got to see a part of the lands most famous sights! Our drive- through from Kathmandu to Udaipur took five days. Our style of progressing was very calm and light, because we only had two drivers, and just the two of us travelling was a lot harder than …
From Nepal days 9 & 10 – Fight for Huffalump Part 2 – Customs clearance for spare parts!
Update to Huffalump’s rescue operation: Saturday started off slowly. The rhtyhm of life in Mumbai had got hold of us: here you go to work around ten or eleven in the morning, work until seven in the evening and bedtime is at around two o’clock. Also, due to the difference in time it took us almost until three to sort …
Nepal, days 6, 7 & 8 – Fight for Heffalump Part 1 – Identifying, buying and gathering spare parts!
Sad lady Heffalump was still sitting on the truck even though we had been at the Volkswagen service store yard for five hours already. She would have wanted to come down, but due to her sizeable dimensions combined with the damage done to her front limbs we couldn’t get her down. We needed another crane truck that could lift the …
Hitting a Little Too Close to Home?
We’d planned to write about the return trip in chronological order, but now we have to make an exception, since our situation is so critical right now. Misa and I were in a car accident in India yesterday. We started off early in the morning from Udaipur to get out of the city’s narrow lanes before traffic woke up. We …