Ka Pai Kiwis

I had a great nights sleep last night and am feeling much better. Robyn is having a bit of a relapse so we will have to wait and see.  We have a lovely park opposite our hotel, we managed about an hours walk through it and decided that was enough for today, it is really humid and hot. My Pakistani princess.    The walk was nice though with many botanical specimens well preserved and looked after dating back to British times. The gardens are well kept and many beds are being prepared for annual planting.  Given the circumstances we decided not to eat here.  A couple of street scenes on the way back to the hotel.  Back to rest up and continue the recuperation.

We had decided to stay one more night in Islamabad as Mark had not had a good night and still wasn’t 100%. Unfortunately the hotel was full so we decided to ride the 300 kms to Lahore as we had a room booked there. The idea was we would take our time with lots of drinks stops etc. As we rode out of Islamabad we saw a little of what the city was like, as over the past few days we had only seen our hotel room and bathroom.  Whoops chopped off the top of the globe- still not at my best!  It is a modern city with lots of trees, wide street and huge buildings.  So we pressed on - the heat and humidity levels were really high- really uncomfortable to ride in but something we will have to adjust to from now on. We stopped for drinks and for Mark to slide off the bike and rest under a tree. We even found a MacDonalds which we stopped at because we figured it would have aircon, a cold drink and toilet.  The road was busy but in better condition than we had ridden on lately. C...