Little Donkey

Hello all, how are you doing? This really is going to be short and sweet. I've got a stinking cold, so all i can think of is crawling back to my bed for a nap. This is probably the best internet connection i am going to have for a while, so i though it best just to get on with it! Since i last wrote i've hit the road again. Leaving Mamallapuram was sad, but it was time. I have met some great people and made some even better friends, so i'm sure i will be back at some time. Working with Earth Aid was one of the best things i have ever done and the experience was amazing! So, its been good to get back on the road again. I found it quite a daunting ... read more

Mamallapuram turned out to be great. As you can see from the photos, a lot of partying was done and there were a few hangovers to be nursed. However, i did do something constructive in the 3 days here. I've arranged to come back to Mamallapuram to work for an aid agency called Earth Aid Asia. I am going to be working with a local Health Worker, visiting the surrounding villages, and assisting with any health problems they may have. I'll find out more tomorrow, but i'm really excited, if a little apprehensive! All those lectures i went to for the 6 months i was doing my tropical nursing qualification seem to have vanised from my brain, aahhh! So from here Mike and i headed to Chennai (aka Madras) for a few nights.We searched high and ... read more

hello, i'm getting a bit slack keeping up with this blog, i'm just going to briefly summerise the last week, so that i can catch up to where i am now! i'm sure the photos will speak much better than my words (and spelling) anyway! so after agra we were driven back to delhi by our stressy driver. i'm so relieved to be rid of him and to have our freedom back. we head north on the overnight sleeper to shimla, an old british hill station in the foothills of the himalaya. have to change trains at 5 am to a 'toy train' that snaked around the mountains and hills on a narrow guage track. this was spectacular, the train was old, but would have been really splendid in its time. you could imagine all the ... read more

Hello all. Had a great 4 nights in Udaipur. Not loads to do.....which was a good thing.....saw an uninspiring palace, a lake, shops, restaurants.......most of which were on the hotel roof tops and had amazing views over the lake, i was quite happy just sitting with my book in one hand and a beer in the other..........was definatly due some chill time! watched the obligatory James Bond Film 'Octopussy' which was filmed here, and got overly excited when i saw some of the land marks where i'd been. decided to stay a fourth night so we could do cookery course........it came highly recommended.......and although very expensive was well worth it, especially as we got to eat the end result...mmmm! The teacher was a lady called Sushma, and we were promised an 'experience of devine cooking'.........sounded good. ... read more

So left a little later than expected this morning. the owner of our hotel decided to give all his guest unlimited free drinks all evening, and needless to say, in true Katie stylee i took full advantage of this! Vodka, Gin, Rose liqour, you name it i had it! Then we invited Sanjeev up (drivers not allowed to dine with guests normally, he had to ask owners permission???) and with him came a bottle of whiskey! we mingled with a mixed crown of aussies, americans, few brits and indians, mostly all over the age of 40! met a great 70 yr old women from uk that spends 1/2 the year in india travelling, she had been in the north last week, and bumped into none other than the Dalai Lama, quite a tale to tell! and ... read more