Food

Got to tell you about the food. Well lets start with - its delicious. Andrha food is highly spicey with chillies in everything- the amount of chilli varies from dish to dish. Hyderabad is the home of biriyani, and last night we had the best biriyani ever. To start with it was huge, which always pleases me, full of chicken and it came with a delicious curry sauce and a chilli buttermilk. The rotis were twice the size of normal ones - all this for85 pence!
Breakfast this morning was puris with curry, with the best pickles and local coffee. The flavours are truly amazing, everything tasting really fresh. We"ve loved Andrha food for a long time and always try to find it when travelling in different areas. The bikes arent expected back till Tuesday p.m. so we have a chance to sample more of the delights of this great city.
Our route out is going to be very rural. We are abandoning the highways and going for the smaller country roads. Here and in Karnataka - the next state, the roads are good more or less all over so we dont have to be picky about where we go. Raichur is the next stop after here - it has a huge fort on the top of a rocky hill which dominates the landscape. This whole area is full of forts- this is where the Mughals held out against the Hindu Vijayaganar empire. They were at war for hundreds of years and there are deserted temples, forts and palaces dotted about everywhere. Its a great area to travel, with no one else doing it - probably because its not mentioned in the Lonely Bastard.[hooray!]
Joe is trying to sort out the photo loading - this cyber cafe is not as whizz as we first thought- its only laid out for surfing, and shrinking digital images - and dongling[?] is not easy.