As a quick update for you, I ended up leaving the city of Madurai the day after I spoke to you last, and after a few days worth of travelling I reached the Land's End of India on Sunday (which is where I am writing this now).
Actually, here are the final Merc-o-meter readings for you to look at if you like:
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Total number of towns I visited since leaving Chennai: 11
Total number of kilometres I cycled: 870ish
Overall Heat Rating: Like being in a sauna that never switched off.
Total number of times I had to get off the road pronto because of double/triple overtaking manoeuvres: More than 20, less than 25.
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Oh, and for those of you who are interested, here are 3 facts about the Indian Land's End as well:
1) It's proper name is Cape Comorin/Kanyakumari, and it is a small town that is situated in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
2) It makes up the southernmost tip of the mass of land that was an island in the sea before it crashed into the continent above all those years back (this is how the Himalayas were formed by the way).
3) The rough triangular shape of it down here means that you are able to see where 3 different masses of water (the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea) all join up and meet each other.
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Well anyway... back to my travels, and you wanted to check out the state of this strange goodnight John-Boy establishment I had to sleep in the other night!
I mean, I know it only cost me a quid or something and that you get what you pay for, but even so, the bare-bones room I was given was so basic and weird, that all it had in it was a small bed, a red lightbulb and not a lot else!
In fact, it was that far out in there, it was like I was stepping onto the set of a Quentin Tarantino film or something when I walked into the place at first!
Oh, and because I couldn't find any food I could recognise when I was out and about at the local shops a bit later on, it soon became a case of me having to tuck into the single melted toffee I had on me for dinner as well, which ended up adding to the comedy value of things of course!
Ha ha!
The joys of being out in the middle of nowhere, eh?!
Needless to say though, despite me having to put up with all this randomness for a while, it all made sense again when I was pedalling alongside the foothills of the Ghat Mountains a couple of days later...
And when I finally did make it down to this Land's End place I am at now (and I saw sea, sea and sea pop up on 3 sides of me at the end of my journey)... well that was something pretty special too as it goes.
In fact on the subject of which, take a quick look at these if you like (don't worry, there's only 4 of them!)...