Reddit reviews Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Would recommend reading this from Irish cyclist and travel writer Dervla Murphy: https://www.amazon.com/Full-Tilt-Ireland-India-Bicycle/dp/1906011419

From childhood: probably Tintin and National Geographic (I've been a subscriber since I was 5 years old). Both convinced my young brain that there is an extraordinarily diverse, beautiful and wonderful world out there to explore (and to photograph).

When I was a teenager, I came across Michael Palin's "Around the World in Eighty Days" series which really got my travel itch going. I still plan to "beat" Palin in my own circumnavigation at some point in the near future.

It was also at this time that I discovered Mark Twain's travel novels which opened a whole world of modern travel writing, including some of these great story-tellers:

• Dervla Murphy (she cycled from Ireland to India in the early 1960s)
  
• George Orwell
  
• Bruce Chatwin (especially In Patagonia)
  
• Peter Hessler
  
• Paul Theroux (especially The Great Railway Bazaar)
  
• Bill Bryson
  
• The Countess of Ranfurly's memoirs from WW2

This is the only thing I too cannot figure out! I've decided that for now, its better to have my tea the way I like it and just focus on paleo foods. Tea is really important to me =)

An aside: I recently learned from reading the book Full Tilt that some cultures use salt in their black tea instead of sugar! Dont know why I've never thought of that before, but I tried it and its really good. =)