GoGreenGirls: Day 2 - Bagnan to Kharagpur

Today was a long ride, especially compared to yesterday's picnic :) Or so we thought.. But we are strong girls, aren't we?

We left at 6am (we would have loved to leave sooner, but the big light In the sky does not come on before that).. Leaving at 6 am means that we need to assemble with our luggage at 5.30 and start checking our cycles and loading the truck with our luggage… Sigh!!! Surprisingly, everyone is up before time and ready.. Good Girls…

As usual we stopped for breakfast after the first hour.. Luckily we had learnt our lesson the previous day and Informed the cook to make the aloo parantha's on the tava instead of frying it in oil.. The parantha's turned out to be amazingly tasty.. We were all sufficiently loaded with carbs ready to take on the ride for the day.. :)

We had our first cycle casualty for the day with my cycle getting punctured halfway… I loaded it on to the truck and picked up a spare cycle.. Kavitha also ended up getting her cycle punctured later in the day (we decided to blame the food that we had eaten with the Gujarati samaaj yesterday..)

The ride was long… All our butts were hurting and a few of us even have blisters.. Apart from that, our knees and wrists were competing to be more painful… Those of us who had high seats had wrist pain and those of us who had low seats had knee pains.. :).. we're hoping to get over this soon enough.. maybe a few days more..

The reception we received at Kharagpur was great.. The Lions Club, Kharagur Metropolitan, had arranged the whole thing… They waited for us on the main road with their banner and cycles and lead us to our accommodation… We had great food again, not that we are complaining.. Our cycle mechanics arrived from Kolkata to fix our cycles.. They're like new (well! they are, aren't they?) now and I think tomorrow's ride will be more comfortable… blisters… knees… wrists.. elbows.. back!!! :)

After lunch, we had a cycle rally within Kharagpur… lots of people joined us with flags and banners and speakers.. It was a fun rally followed by a press conference (nice reporters.. :)). Nice dinner again and we're about to sleep now… have to wake up early again :) catch you tomorrow… Thank you Lion's Club...