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The original crazy kids are off on their travels!!

Well we thought we'd set up this site to keep you amused whilst we are climbing up mountains and being extreme!!

Hopefully by now, you know we are lovely so you will want to read our site!! We have a map (which should be on the next page) of our trip and a few photos which we will add to as we go on....and on!

Our route is:
Fly to Delhi
Short rest then off to Nepal
Trekking through the Himalayas for 3 weeks
Maybe Bhutan
Back to India for mid-December
Meet LJ's parents for India in style trip!
Go to LJ's godfather's pad in Kerala (thanks Dave!)
Off to SE Asia (fingers crossed on bird-flu!)
- Thailand
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Vietnam
- Indonesia

Then to Perth to see Rob & Emma

Then Africa
Overland from Cape town to Mt Killimanjaro
(did I mention we are climbing it?)

Then home and back from Maz & Micky's wedding in June 2006.

It sounds fun hey? But we are going to miss you all so much ;o( so you MUST email your news!
Take care xxxxxx

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By LJ Gilly
June 7th 2006

Lions and Tigers and Bears oh My! Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Nungwi

Honey I shruk Gilly

Luckily we quickly found a truck complete with a great bunch of guys to take us from Cape Town up through Namibia, we decided to do things in style and armed with our pillows, duvet and large box of fine SA wine we set off....After shivering in Cape Town (see its not all beach weather you know!)we soon got to baking hot, barren and empty Namibia which really was like being on another planet. Our first major place was a the huge Fish River Canyon where after a stroll around we tucked into fine food and mugs of sherry! We ended [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
April 27th 2006

Out of Africa Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town

The hat party!

Leaving dusty Australia behind, we flew to the surprisingly lush green South Africa. It's very European looking and in places a little like the land of my fathers (Wales). I actually met my first Welshies since November but that’s another story. On arrival in Jo’Burg we soon realized that the stories about how dangerous it was were probably true. The city was very intimidating, security guards with guns, high security fences and lots of razor wire and no wondering around at night. Our plan was to head down the coast to Durban and finish in Cape Town. Although Durban wa [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
April 5th 2006

Gone with the wind! Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth

Nice rock hey?

Our camper van extravaganza began in Broome where we quickly picked up the lingo including “throw a few prawns on the barbie”, as well as “streuth” and “bonza”, but the winning line was “flaming galaa”. We were greeted with extra humid weather with blue skies, which cunningly disguised what was in store for us…. After a chance listening to the radio we heard a murmur about a cyclone forming off the coast of Broome. After a suitable R&R, we decided to escape and head west from the oncoming CYCLONE GLENDA. We were soon laughing at our ag [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
March 23rd 2006

Smokey and the Bandits Asia » Indonesia » Bali

Sunrise at Bromo

Well after our last episode we left you somewhere in Vietnam probably running from dodgy taxis and scooters honking at every opportunity. Keen to leave the chaos of Saigon we headed to the Mekong Delta and went on a lovely wooden canoe to tour the floating markets. It was really bizarre seeing boats of potatoes and pineapples floating past, not sure it will catch on at the Thames, think Sainsbury’s can breathe easy! From there we took the fast boat to Cambodia, although fast was a rather inaccurate description of the journey which seemed to take the best part of a [View Full Entry]

I'll have some pineapple with my pina colada please

By LJ Gilly
February 12th 2006

The banana smoothie taste off Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta

Lets go tuuuubing!!

Our arrival in Bangkok meant one thing to me….Pad Thai’s all round!!…I was in Thai food heaven, no more Indian curry and hello clean and calm Thailand! We made our way North to Chiang Mai where I persuaded LJ to do a cooking course to ensure an infinite supply of future pad Thaïs. We created a feast of fish cakes, green curry and pad Thai and left full and happy campers. From there we crossed the border into Laos to do some serious banana smoothie tasting and began an epic 150km bus ride on some of the worst roads in the [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
January 11th 2006

Meet the parents Asia » India » Kerala » Varkala

YMCA at the Taj!!!

Well after waiting eagerly, my folks finally arrived in Delhi and to help ease them in to the vagaries of India I had booked us all into a fancy 5 star hotel (against our wishes of course!). It was a tough life cocktails by the pool, air conditioning and a bath...ahhh! Next up was helping my dad celebrate his 60th birthday, so we had the best curry and Kingfisher beers we could find (plus a cake of course!). We soon left our Delhi bellies behind and headed to Amritsar the place of the Golden Temple which was well.... very gold, rather [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
December 18th 2005

My Little Skinny Indian Wedding Asia » India » Andhra Pradesh » Hyderabad

Victoria memorial in Kolkata

Returning from Kathmandu to the mad hustle and bustle of India was always going to be difficult for us…but to go from Bhutan, the most chilled out place I have ever been, turned out to be a nightmare!! Being back in India is pretty hectic and the cities are like London on fast forward!! Calcutta turned out to be loud, leery, and suffocating. To make matters worse we seemed to spend 2 days working out how to get out of the damn city - Indian Challenge Anneka Rice! Our destination was a very hard to pronounce beach town in the south [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
December 10th 2005

Land of the Thunder Dragon Asia » Bhutan » Paro

Sky High

Bhutan is like the land where time stood still! Mobile phones have just hit the streets here and TV’s are barely out of their boxes in this Himalayan paradise. Bhutan although shunning the western thirst for gadgets and commercialization does have great ambition and is a sort of trendsetter in its own right - one of the few countries to completely ban tobacco and the proud owner of the largest book in the world (just a whisker taller than me!). Also we soon noticed in our luxury hotel that the restaurants were keen to set a world record for the fastest [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
December 7th 2005

Yakking in the Himalayas Asia » Nepal » Kathmandu » Thamal

Just a small rock behind!

Hi Everyone, thanks for all you emails.......keep them coming! Just come back from a 20 day trek in Everest, superb but bloody cold! Decided to follow in Edmond Hillary’s footsteps (just missed the small matter of the summit). After 8 days of walking through villages and not seeing any mountains we started to think we’d made a wrong turn somewhere. We popped into a school for directions and then thought we should make a huge donation. Unfortunately owing to the stock at the local random hut we only managed to summon together 20 pens for the 150 children (still they were [View Full Entry]

By LJ Gilly
October 23rd 2005

The best 70's funky leaving do ever!! Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City

Gilly and LJ set off to Carwash

Wow!! Thanks for such an amazing farewell! Started in Old Street in a bar where everyone wondered why we were dressed in 70's gear. Then we went to a cool restaurant followed by Carwash where we danced our socks off!! Thanks so much for a brilliant night! We'll miss you - email us ;o))) [View Full Entry]

Miz and Macky - where did you get that shirt!

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