He said: "I have a lot of friends of friends who are letting me stay their homes, but otherwise I've been camping in the grounds of local police stations.
"Sheffield seems like a very nice place, but my best experience so far has been in Spain. I was cycling into Barcelona and a group of people stopped to ask me for money.
"When they realised I was from the same part of India as them, there attitude changed and they were very interested in my trip and even bought me a meal!" Avijit will now cycle to London before catching a plane to LA for the next segment of his journey.
He added: "My worst experience was when the police found some glucose powder and thought it was drugs, I was taken to a police station but soon allowed to go on my way."
This is cache, read story here