Manjula's team is here to help you have a great visit to the wonderful city of Mysore.
Author: SF
A YIndian, Yorkshire by birth and Indian by marriage. Originally from the UK, I've now lived in Mysore, South India for over ten years with my beautiful wife Manjula. MeandMycycle is about the ups, downs and ups of our life in Mysore and our creations: Mysore Bed and Breakfast and MyCycle Tours.
We hope you are managing and well in these challenging times.
We reopened in October 2022 and look forward to welcoming you to Mysore.
Book via Email (preferably) tours@mycycle.co or telephone 0091 9886705179.
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Look through this site for more details of who we are and what we do. Our story can also be found on www.meandMYCycle.com but beware it’s a jungle.
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Please note our rooms can only be booked directly or carefully selected agents such as Indiasomeday or if you’d prefer: AirBnB
We cannot be booked via other third party online sites and portals.
It costs 2400 Rs per nightfor two people sharing and 1950Rs per night single occupancy. Breakfast is included and is usually fruit salad, muesli, toast, juice, scrambled egg and mushrooms.
Stephen, Lucie and Billet-Doux, and Manjula still with us.
A recent article about ‘global travel trends’ …. emphasised that people were looking forward to travel again….. we can understand why.
Guess where was top of the list? Yes, India.
They emphasised different ways to travel, all of which we have experience of here. For example:
Travelling sustainably, of course, more people are conscious of how they travel and getting to know a place better, going for depth and less of breadth. In a previous life I advised business on sustainability.
More people are looking to work while travelling, say hello to the digital nomad, Tom and Amy are our very own examples of young people with a new approach and zest for life. We’ve lost count of the times they’ve been to stay.
Want to work and travel? check out India, come and stay.
Safety in terms of one’s health and not being in risky personal situations, when we do reopen we’ll be up to the minute, in terms of best practice. In addition, we have experience of many single women travellers calling in here, some starting their travels in Mysore so we can help you find your feet, put you in touch with others and give helpful advice.
Travel is always an adventure and we often have people, including the Sari Sisters from Vancouver Island, Stephen Fleming the intrepid bee hunter cyclist from England venturing out on their own cycle tours, for example from here into the Nilgiris, Kodagu, or to Cochin or Goa. We’ve put cyclists in touch with other’s who have cycled the same routes to get insightful advice and great suggestions.
So when making plans do search around this site where you’ll find all sorts of advice for travel in India, in the South and especially in and around Mysore.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for, just ask, we might know or our community of friends: previous guests and local contacts will know.
Things to do Locally
We do also of course have our ‘world famous’ MYCycle tours
I was out cycling with our neighbour Verendra and just today we Invited in and given a guided tour of the Pinjrapolesociety where cows are given a home, yes, imagine an old cows home, with 4000 residents. check it out.
We look forward to meeting you again or for the first time!
It’s a year since our last guests stayed at Mysore Bed and Breakfast. What a year it’s been. We miss you!
Our wonderful new banner in our downstairs entrance created from Manjula’s clothing by Jacqui, a multi-talented previous guest.
It’s been a challenge for us all, with fewer visitors and friends to make Lucie has found it difficult, she’s stuck with me!
Our biggest challenge is missing Manjula, it’s been two years now. We’ve just arranged Pooja and a meal for us and the crows (to reach Manjula’s soul) ? More details here
She’s present with us as we cherish her smiling energy and joy.
Yes we’ve added even more art…. and a library and … And plants, with a new garden planned for the park opposite.
We look forward to re-opening and seeing you later this year please do contact us to find more details, check this or our regular updates on our other site or on Instagram #meandmycycle
From Stephen, Lucie and Manjula who is very much still with us.
Mysore storyteller’s Network were in the sensitive hands of R G Singh who guided us through the history of his wonderful private collection of Mysore Art.
One of the hidden gems of Mysore. He’s from a family who arrived over two hundred years ago who celebrate and perpetuate the mysore style art. The museum has special exhibitions and occasionally provides guided tours to the exhibits that cover exactly those 200 hundred years of Mysore Art.
I discovered that one of my paintings is similar to one of R G Singh’s in his collection. It’s the cosmic egg.
We’ve all found this time of virus challenging and search new things to do.
How can we survive without travel?
Two wonderful friends have come up with solid solutions.
In my unbiased view they are amongst most innovative, informative and entertaining guides in India, who have set up quality services in Mysore and Delhi and elsewhere.
Check our their online offerings, you’ll not be disappointed.
Vinay’s Gully Tours with a presence in Mysore, Bangalore and Cochin
Here’s our entry on Trip Advisor and we’re pleased that we are a Traveller’s Choice 2020 and are still number one in Mysore out of 171.
Life is different as I’ve had nine years of wonderfulness with the Madam, sharing our home and making new friends.
Mysore bum hurts from bouncing on a roller coaster, pot-holed ride since she slipped through my clumsy fingers but now we’ve all had to deal with exceptional pandemic times. I hope you’ve fared well and can begin to feel positively motivated.
We can announce that ……..
We plan to open again in December and promise a friendly dog, the inimitable Lucie, the noisy Yindian and the penetrating presence of the beauty who will always be with us.
Our trademark cleanliness, appropriate distancing and limited rooms will help us all take care of each other.
Manjula's Mysore 