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Log on to the BBC World News pages and check out the stories for South Asia. Three stories will jump to your attention: floods, labour strikes and food riots. The Tracing Tea crew is well located to cover all of these, conveniently/inconveniently divided as we are between all the key locations.
Unit 1, which currently comprises of Marlon, Sam and Andy went up to Siliguri in West Bengal with the tuk-tuks on Friday. The journey, which usually takes 12-14 hours by car, took the tuk-tuks 3 days as protesters campaigning against the Tata's Nano car production plant have more or less shut the road which links Kolkata with Siliguri.
Being described as 'A tea-mad Isleworth man' is a strange feeling. I am, and so I suppose this is a suitable description, however it does make it hit home what I have just started.
I, Mike Hasler, of Worton Road,(here on the right at Tiger Hill), have just set off on a seven month journey, travelling 15,000km across eighteen countries in three-wheeled auto-rickshaws with a top speed of 31mph.
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