Well, we've finally returned to India. Hopefully we'll stay here in Goa until the end of April, when our friend Sanjay and his Papa, have asked us to return with them to their home in Kashmir. Then, we've been invited to a wedding in Delhi in June. We'll need to go somewhere towards the end of March to renew our visas, probably either Sri Lanka or Thailand. The tourist season is beginning to take off, and we return to a different Baga and Calangute to the towns we left three weeks ago. Most bars, shops and restaurants are now open, Calangute [View Full Entry]

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Just a very quick entry for the moment. We got to Goa and spent four days there sorting our flat out and getting to know Toby, the landlord's dog who has worked out how to open the living room window and let himself in through the bars. Apparently he's normally too fat to fit through, but has lost weight in the off season and it's his new party trick. So our first night was spent listening to him scratching his fleas at the bottom of our bed. Apart from the scratching noises, the other thing stopping us getting a good night's [View Full Entry]

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Well, it's been a long time since our last blog entry! We've tried a few times, but internet access has been so difficult in Ghana we've waited till we got to Dubai to add this. Either the internet has been so slow as to be useless, or the keyboard has had most of the letters rubbed off, or the symbols written on the keys bear no relation to the symbol that appears on the screen, or the best explanation we've heard for the non-availability of service has been the weather. The internet in Ghana apparently doesn't like it too hot!! Luckily [View Full Entry]

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We unexpectedly find ourselves back in the UK. Claire's dad, Peter, has been taken seriously ill, and we've returned for two weeks to see him and to support Claire's mum, Janet. He's been very unwell for some years and this is the latest in a number of setbacks. Although he is terminally ill, he seems fairly stable for the moment, and we hope to return to Ghana on the 19th. These two weeks back also give us a chance to reflect on our experiences in Ghana, and to update this blog, internet access not being that convenient or reliable near where [View Full Entry]

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We have been in Ghana for a week now and still feel as if we have entered a different world. A bit of history about the place we are staying: A few miles away there is a hospital which used to be specifically for leprosy patients. Just after WW2, some of the patients on long term treatment started squatting in the nearby disused army camp, (Ankaful camp) partly to save the journey to and from their villages as they came from all over west Africa, and partly because the stigma of leprosy meant that they were not welcome back in their [View Full Entry]

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Time has flown and we are now back in London and realised that we haven't made an entry for almost 3 weeks! So, the weather in Wales improved hugely during our second week, hot and sunny most days. The mountains look so different in good weather and we discovered some lovely beaches and lakes to swim in. We decided that we needed a break from walking to do something else, there are hundreds of different leaflets about things to do in the area and we settled on one called Ropeworks (Terry wasn't too keen but I managed to guilt him into [View Full Entry]

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Weather so far.....10 days - 1 sunny - 9 naff! Well Wales can officially be described as wet! We hoped to be walking every day in our bid to get fit, this has been hampered a bit by the weather (shame eh!) Although we have managed to brave the elements to take on the 34 footsteps from the caravan door to the pub bar! We are staying in a caravan (tin tent) outside a pub called the Snowdon Inn just outside Llanberis. For company we have a menagerie consiting of *2 dogs (Shiloh and Sasha) *2 cats (Bella and Fluff) and [View Full Entry]

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Reading the paper the other day I came accross an article about new words that have been added to the English dictionary this year. We have been strugling to explain to people what we are actually doing, we are not taking a year out to go backpacking, we are not going to find jobs abroad, we just planned to give up work rent out the house and do something interesting with our lives. Anyway the article has finally given us a word to discribe all this! Protire def; If you are fed up with your job and retirement still seems many [View Full Entry]

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Just a quick entry to give our intended travel itinery and update you on how we're coming along with our plans. No more work! We both worked our last shifts on Thursday 8th June...feels so weird to be unemployed! Don't think its really hit home yet. People keep asking if we're excited, but we've been so busy sorting the house out and selling or giving away most of what we own that we've not really had time to be excited. Our house is being rented out, unfurnished, so most of our furniture has already gone. The TVs on the floor. Our [View Full Entry]

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Writing this entry a bit late, as we've been back a while now, but partly trying out this travelblog thing, and partly letting anyone who's interested know a bit more about where we're headed.... We've got a flat booked in Baga, Goa, from the 1st November, for 6 months. We've been over to Goa a couple of times now, November last year, then this Feb. One of the reasons we're heading back there is that we've got involved with this school, Sacred Heart in Anjuna. We bumped into Assunta, the headmistress, on a bus on the way to Panjim and she [View Full Entry]

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