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Dee & Holly

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Hiya, we are Dee and Holly from Northampton, UK.

We've booked our RTW tickets and leave on 1st October 2009 to see the world.

Our plan is to start with India, Nepal and Hong Kong [~2 months] then SE Asia [~8 months] then Australia and New Zealand [~3 months] then South America [~5 months].

We are looking forward to finding paradise, dabbling in adventure and making new friends along the way. Holly is a little worried about going without hair straighteners and having to 'pack light'. Dee is not packing light, is taking his skateboard and will be searching for Chin and pie! We will miss our friends and family and a proper cup of tea the most.

We hope you enjoy our blog and would love to hear from you!
H&D
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By Dee and Holly
November 11th 2009

A sight for sore eyes - Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Asia

To Delhi
Rainbow in the sky

Delhi We flew with Kingfisher Airlines from Trivandrum (South Kerela) to Delhi via Bangalor. Delhi was much cooler than down south and the city streets seemed cleaner and less crowded (how weird for India!). The city is preparing to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games so this could have something to do with it. We decided to stay in the cheap backpacker area called Pahar Ganj and was surprised to find the airport taxi divers weren't too keen to go there! Our driver wanted to drop us off at the train station, nearby but no where near where we wanted to go [View Full Entry]

By Dee and Holly
November 11th 2009

Nepal Boarder and Buddha Asia » Nepal » Lumbini

Lumbini
World Peace Pagoda

We got a night train from Varanasi to Gorakpur (north India, on our way to the boader with Nepal). The people in Varanasi train station must have know we were to be leaving India because they pulled out all the stops to give us an extra 'special' send off......late train, begging by the poorliest children we've ever seen, so much staring, drunks, people wanting photos of us, constant ''hello, where are you from?''.....we were even sketched by somone. We were warn out afterwards! 3 hour chicken bus north from Gorakpur to Sunauli, the boarder town between India and Nepal. It's like [View Full Entry]

By Dee and Holly
October 29th 2009

Lovely Fort Cochin, Kerela Asia » India » Kerala » Kochi

Train from Hampi
Waterfall

We left Hampi and started our long journey to our next destination...Kerela in the south. This involved 2 train journeys. One 8 hours long, hot sleeper class, seat next to the toilet, not great! The second was 16 hours long. We paid extra for 3AC class, much cooler and a nicer kind of person. PLU. We were befriended by a lovely family from Gujarta who insisted on feeding us all their homemade rotis and Diwali sweets and questioned us about whether we were married and why we weren't travelling with our parents!!. Arrived in Fort Cochin via ferry, a lovely old [View Full Entry]

By Dee and Holly
October 29th 2009

Beachy Varkala Asia

Varkala
The beach was calling

After our great backwater experince, we decided to travel south from Fort Cochin by boat so booked a tourist boat from Alleppey (2 hours from Fort Cochin) to Kollam. We took a death-wish taxi to Alleppey and boarded our boat. It was very empty, just 10 of us in total, so comfortable. It was very slow going (10km/hr) but the scenery was amazing so we didn't mind. We got to Kollam, a typical (horrible) big Indian town, we hated it and got a taxi straight to Varkala. We'd been recommended this place by Steve and Sarah, who we'd met in Goa. [View Full Entry]

By Dee and Holly
October 22nd 2009

Temple-tastic Hampi Asia » India

Hampi
View.

We (Dee, Holly and Ben) got an early morning train from Margoa (main town in South Goa) to Hospet (a little town, in nextdoor Karnatika state). We got the cheap tickets (poor person sleeper class unfortunately, it was hot, we got stared at but we survived) and it took about 7.5 hours. Hospet is nothing to speak of. The streets are full of litter, people sleeping on the pavements and going for a poo in public and we saw a dead dog (boo). The train station was very busy and in the chaos Holly experienced her first boob grope of the [View Full Entry]

By Dee and Holly
October 10th 2009

Trains, pains and automobiles Goan style Asia » India » Goa » Arambol

Mandovi Express
Dee in our berth

After spending 3 days in Mumbai, we get up really early to catch the 06.55 Mandovi Express to Goa. We get to the main CST train station at rush hour (manic!) to find our train is delayed by 5 hours! Rubbish! After wandering around for a bit trying to find an open cafe to sit and wait in (there was none!) we end up at the station food kiosk and were taken in by the lovely employees who let us sit and eat in the cool and calm of their office rather than in the crazy station (nice!). We then sit [View Full Entry]

By Dee and Holly
October 4th 2009

Mindblowing Mumbai Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai

MG 5353
All packed up

We get to Mumbai fine (great to get an upgrade and Dee was pleased to eat his first pie of the trip, a breakfast veg curry pie!). We find the pre-paid taxi booth. We decide to go for a non AC taxi. We step outside the airport, the heat and humidity hits us and we are instantly drenched with sweat. Should have gone for the AC taxi! The taxi was a skip on wheels and we had to hold on to each other to make sure we didn't fall out of the dodgy doors or rusty floor. The sights and smells [View Full Entry]

By Dee and Holly
September 28th 2009

Teaching Grandma to use Skype Europe » United Kingdom » England » Cornwall

Cornwall 2009
Sennen Cove

Our adventure really started the moment we broke our daily routine and left work. We were given an amazing send off from all our colleagues and a pretty cool parting gift......dinner and a nights stay at the Banyan Tree Hotel in Bangkok to be used whenever we're fed up of budget hostels, bed bugs and banana pancakes! Thanks everyone!! We then went to Cornwall to visit Dee's family and to do some pre-trip training. Did lots of walking to wear in our shiny new walking boots and got used to eating traditional local cuisine (pasties and cream teas!). We tried out [View Full Entry]

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