I wanted a new adventure, so I started cycling. It started as a fitness thing - but then I was bored going around in circles and decided to use the bike to explore Mumbai - and it was a wonderful voyage of discovery
Ancient salt pans at Wadala
The atmospheric old Sewri jetty - now gone, alas. They are making a huge flyover across the sea there now
Flamingoes in the mud flats
Sion fort - the water body it once guarded has now become the Sion Trombay highway
More images from Sewri
The Worli fort
Now the Bandra Worli sealink is a landmark of modern Mumbai
The old and the new
Front view of the star-shaped Worli fort
Gateway of India
Mazgaon dockyard
Bandra fort - which faced off to the Mahim and Worli forts
Water fountain at Bandra built by a philanthropist
The Dharavi fort - now lost inside Mumbai's largest slum
Ancient Buddhist caves at Andheri - Mahakali caves
Me with a statue of R K Laxman's 'common man' at Worli sea face
Chowpatty sea face
Haji Ali dargah - out in the sea
Jogeshwari caves
Mandapeshwar caves, Borivli
Golden Pagoda in Borivali - Replica of Shwedagon pagoda, Myanmar